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The funds are crucial for preparing and communicating our response to hatespeech in the media that published content related to the Park of the Erased (»Park izbrisanih«). Hatespeech has been predominantly directed towards the inhabitants who were erased from the Central Population register of Slovenia in 1992 (hereinafter »the erased«) and towards the three authors of the Ć monument placed in the park, who have been discredited in the media. Media practices that enable hatespeech towards minorities and publish false news to discredit individuals are extremely worrysome because they infringe the dignity of the erased as well as the right to creativity and public expression of the monument''s authors.
We believe that:
- due to the hateful comments it is necessary to instigate a criminal complaint against the editor-in-chief of the specific media and against the authors of the the hateful comments based on public promotion of hatred, violence and intolerance (first paragraph of Article 297 of Criminal Code (KZ-1)),
- due to the attempts to personally discredit, defamate and insult the authors we should support the authors in instigating a private criminal complaint of an offence of defamation of honour as well as action for damages.