Member Karina Bosak in the Sejm, March 5, 2025.
There'll always be more scuttled than robbed. That's what my doctor friend said, not a lawyer. This shows the importance of pragmatism in lawmaking.
The government, under the pretext of fighting hatred, proposed unnecessary, ill-written, yet very harsh and harmful provisions. What's in this project?
The government wants to add age, disability, sexual orientation and sex to the catalogue of protected features. These features will be extended to the crime of “calling to hate”. The first 2 are not that important, and the second and 3rd means introducing censorship on criticism of LGBT environment and its socio-political demands.
Censors for everyone, in fact, no substance what his intentions are, due to the fact that All things will be considered hate: doubt, irony, it doesn't should be vulgar..
And even worse, the scope of the prohibited criticism will be completely unclear and discretionary. It will depend on the individual views of circumstantial prosecutors and judges, as the law will give no indication of what it is meant to mean, and this should not happen in a free state.
The message that the government is introducing censorship is not an exaggeration, due to the fact that on the basis of these, to date comparatively seldom used, only prison sentences are ordered. The government in its proposal amends Articles 119 and 256 of the Criminal Code, which supply only for penalties up to 5 and 3 years in prison! I would like to stress that we are talking about crimes being prosecuted by the public.
This means that The prosecution will be able to conduct proceedings in these cases even if the victim does not do anything about it.. fewer Members know that in these crimes the court will gotta conviction the prison if it considers that the offence occurred.
The proposal for a law does not supply for a fine or even the anticipation of limiting freedom. And judging 3 years in prison for opinions on sexuality is ridiculous!
It is different in another countries of the European Union. For example, in Finland, financial penalties or prison are possible, but only up to six months, not up to 3 years. In the Netherlands, there are besides financial penalties, prison, but a maximum of 1 year. In the UK, hate-motivated action is simply a condition that allows for a more severe punishment. Just like in the project.
And how does that work in practice? According to British data, the number of convicts there is steadily increasing. In 2012, there were about 40,000 of them, and 10 years later this number increased more than 3 times, up to 140 thousand.
Like I said, there's always going to be more to be robbed than robbed. natural law did not improve the situation in England, but only caused an increase in the sense of injustice and overcrowding of prisons. We saw it erstwhile thousands of criminals have late been released from English prisons to make area for English people convicted of alleged hatred speech.
The effect of introducing this kind of broad, which is not known about the legislation, is inflation of reports, overload of the strategy and gradual paralysis of the judiciary.
This proposal is simply a very real threat to freedom of expression and the democratic regulation of law And it will not solve any problem, and it will make many fresh ones.
These provisions should so be definitively rejected and The Confederation shall apply to reject the task in its entirety.
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