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The following overview of hate crimes legislation is based on information submitted directly to the ODIHR by Liechtenstein during the course of 2004-2005. While, in some instances, the wording of the legislation may appear unclear, it has not been changed from its original form.

On the basis of this structure, ODIHR enourages pS to submit relevant information to fill in any gaps.

Legislation is constantly updated, and therefore the provisions cited are subject to change. The term racist is illustrative and does not exclude other bias types. The use of "Article", "Section", or § refers to parts of the respective Criminal Code.

International crimes [1]	Article 321 of the Criminal Code affords special protection to religious, racial, ethnic, cultural or national groups and persons and establishes genocide as an offence punishable by law.
Incitement to hatred / Dissemination of racist ideas [2]	§283: punishment with imprisonment of up to 2 years for public incitement to hatred or discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity or religion; public dissemination of ideologies aimed at the systematic disparagement or defamation of members of a race, ethnicity or religion; organisation, promotion or participation in propaganda actions with the same objective; public disparagement of discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity or religion in a manner violating human dignity […] manufacture, importation, storage, distribution, recommendation, exhibition or presentation of documents (etc) whose content is racially discriminatory (unless the material serves the purpose of art, science, research, education, appropriate reporting on current events or history)
Holocaust denial [3]	§283: public denial or trivialisation or attempts to justify genocide or other crimes against humanity
Personal violence
Destruction of property
Civil rights violations	§283: denial of a service that is meant for the general public on the basis of race, ethnicity of religion
Racist organizations [4]	§283: participation as a member in an association whose activity consists of promoting or inciting racial discrimination
Racist cyber-crime
Aggravating circumstances	§33, paragraph 5: “racist, xenophobic, or other particularly reprehensible motives” as an aggravating circumstance.
Bias types [5]	Race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, cultural group, “other particularly reprehensible motives”.

[1] Relevant international crimes include genocide, apartheid, slavery and persecution.

[2] Includes (public) incitement to racial discrimination, violence or hatred; (public) dissemination of ideas based on racial superiority or hatred; (public) insults and threats.

[3] Includes public denial or gross trivialization of international crimes, especially genocide/the Holocaust.

[4] Includes creation, support, participation.

[5] Includes bias types referred to in definitions of crimes and as aggravating factors, but excludes crimes based on denying equality of citizens, which tend to encompass broader grounds for discrimination.

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