ZAGREB, Jan 30(Hina) - The Croatian Social Liberal Party's (HSLS) members of parliament will move amending the Penal Code so as to make the various forms of glorification of totalitarian ideologies punishable by law.
ZAGREB, Jan 30(Hina) - The Croatian Social Liberal Party's (HSLS)
members of parliament will move amending the Penal Code so as to make
the various forms of glorification of totalitarian ideologies
punishable by law.#L#
Ivan Cehok and Djurdja Adlesic told reporters on Friday the
propagation of fascism, Nazism and communism as well as the
glorification and promotion of their symbols should constitute
criminal acts.
Hate speak and discrimination, either on ethnic, religious or sexual
grounds, the Nazi salute, and the glorification of symbols of Greater
Serbia paramilitary units which took part in the 1990's aggression
against Croatia should also be punishable by law, according to the
HSLS.
The party's MPs were not specific, however, as to which totalitarian
symbols' propagation constituted a criminal act, saying that was up to
the judiciary.
The use of all totalitarian symbols would be allowed only in plays,
films and for scientific purposes, while every other use would be
punished with either a fine or up to one year's imprisonment, the HSLS
proposes.
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