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A group of parliamentarians representing the different groups has registered amendments to the Codes of Administrative and Criminal Offenses for this purpose.
Taking into account the recommendations of international organizations and the international obligations of Lithuania, they propose to complement some articles of the Penal Code including the promotion of hatred based on gender identity, skin color, citizenship and ethnic origin as one of the characteristics of the crime.
It is proposed to include a new article in the Code of Administrative Offenses to combat administrative responsibility for harassment or contempt for nationality, race, sex, origin, religion or other group affiliation.
“Gender identity is understood as the perception of each person’s gender and the related (in) assignment of oneself to a specific gender. The inclusion of this characteristic would guarantee legal certainty, avoid an expanded interpretation of the provisions of the Penal Code, increase the protection of transgender people against incitement to hatred and reflect their position in official criminal statistics ”, says the explanatory note of the document. . .
If the Seimas approved it, the administrative responsibility would apply to anyone who, in order to distribute, produce, acquire, send, transport, conserve things in which a group of people or a person belonging to them was ridiculed or despised , a person for reasons of age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, race, color, nationality, language, origin, ethnic origin, social condition, religion, beliefs or opinions.
Such acts could result in fines of between 560 and 1,200 euros, repeated administrative offenses could result in fines of between 1,200 and 2,000 euros, and for heads of legal persons or other responsible persons of 1,100 to 3,000 euros.
It is also proposed that the police be responsible for investigating hate speech and drawing up minutes.
It is proposed to include public works as one of the sanctions for the promotion of hatred. The Penal Code proposes that “any person who, for distribution purposes, has produced, acquired, sent, transported, considered things that incite hatred or incite to discriminate against a group of people or a person they belong to on the basis of age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, race, color, nationality, nationality, language, origin, ethnic origin, social condition, religion, belief or opinion, or incitement to violence, physical abuse or distribution of such group or person , punishable by public works or a fine, restriction of freedom or arrest or imprisonment of up to one year ”.
According to the project, “someone who publicly incites hatred or discrimination against a group of people or a person belonging to it for reasons of age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, race, color, nationality, citizenship, language , origin, ethnic origin, social condition, religion or beliefs, is punishable by community service or a fine, or by deprivation of liberty, or by arrest, or by imprisonment for a period not exceeding two years. “
It is also proposed to legalize that “any person who publicly incites violence to physically treat a group of people or a person belonging to it because of age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, race, color, nationality, citizenship, language, origin, ethnic origin, social condition, religion, belief or opinion, or the financing or other material support of such activities, punishable by a fine or restriction of freedom, or arrest or imprisonment of up to three years. ‘A legal person would also be responsible for such acts.
Public works or a fine, or the restriction of freedom, or arrest, or imprisonment for up to one year would be punishable, according to the bill, “anyone who forms an accomplice or an organized group or organization with the intention of discriminating against the identity, disability, race, color, nationality, citizenship, language, origin, ethnic origin, social status, religion, belief or opinion, or incitement to hatred or violence against him, or participated in the activities of said group or organization, or the group or organization was funded or otherwise materially supported. “
By the way, it is proposed to transfer part of the acts of incitement to hatred (mockery and contempt) from the Penal Code to the Code of Administrative Offenses.
Since the wording “for the expression of hatred” used in the Penal Code does not fully reveal all the components of hate crimes, one of the main elements of which is hostility to belonging to a socially vulnerable group, it is proposed to complement the motive incitement to hatred by including “hostility”.
Members of the Seimas, Evelina Dobrovolska, Silva Lengvinienė, Tomas Vytautas Raskevičius, Ieva Pakarklytė, Monika Ošmianskienė, Morgana DANIELE, Gintautas Paluckas, Kasparas Adomaitis, Matas Maldeikis, Julius Griuskiendasas, Domas Maldeikis, Vuskalytautas, Domasavišišišišišišišišišišišišišišišišišišišišíšišišišišišišišišišišišišišišu Sysas.
