{"id":12022,"date":"2018-08-10T11:15:51","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T15:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=12022"},"modified":"2018-08-10T11:15:51","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T15:15:51","slug":"far-right-austrian-identitarians-cleared-of-hate-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2018\/08\/10\/far-right-austrian-identitarians-cleared-of-hate-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Far-right Austrian ‘Identitarians’ cleared of hate speech"},"content":{"rendered":"
An Austrian court on Thursday found 17 members of Austria’s far-right ‘Identitarian Movement’ (IB\u00d6) not guilty of charges of criminal association and hate speech.<\/div>\n
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Ten prominent members of the group and seven other “active sympathizers”\u00a0had gone on trial in the city of Graz earlier this month<\/a>\u00a0on charges connected to several of the group’s stunts in recent years.<\/p>\n

Being found guilty of criminal association would have posed a serious threat to the IB\u00d6’s ability to continue operating.<\/p>\n

Two of the accused were, however, found guilty on lesser charges.<\/p>\n

One was convicted of bodily harm and coercion over an incident in June 2016 in which members stormed the stage during a talk on refugee policy at Klagenfurt University and unrolled banners reading “Stop Immigration” and “Integration is a lie”.<\/p>\n

The other was found guilty of criminal damage in a separate IB\u00d6 stunt. Both were fined.<\/p>\n

One of the IB\u00d6’s leaders, Martin Sellner, was prevented from entering the UK in March, with authorities judging his presence would not have been “conducive to the public good”.<\/p>\n

In April he took part in an action near the French-Italian border in which far-right activists blocked a mountain pass in protest at the rise in migrants crossing the Alps.<\/p>\n

Since late 2017, Austria has been governed by a coalition of the centre-right People’s Party (\u00d6VP) and the far-right Freedom Party (FP\u00d6) after both parties made a crackdown on immigration a centre-piece of their election platforms.<\/p>\n

The FP\u00d6’s leadership regularly condemns the actions of “identitarian” activists.<\/p>\n

However, Austrian media have documented links between such activists and FP\u00d6 members at a local level.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Source\u00a0thelocal.at<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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