Criminal Code of Austria (1996) (excerpts related to hate crimes) (English)

Article 283 Incitement

(1) Anyone who, in a way that is suitable to threaten public order, requests or goads hostile action against a church or religious community existing in Austria or against a group defined by its affiliation with  such a church or religious community, to a racial group, a people, an ethnic group or a state, is punishable by up to two years imprisonment. 
(2) Anyone who publicly agitates against one of the groups defined in para. 1 or who insults or aims at disdaining them in a way that presents harm to their human dignity, is punishable by the same penalty.

 

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