In this piece for Schweizer Monat, our Director Faika El-Nagashi examines how the EU’s campaign against hate speech has expanded far beyond its original focus on racism and xenophobia. By folding in gender identity and sexuality, political disagreement is increasingly treated as punishable speech. What was meant to protect vulnerable groups now risks silencing dissent and undermining sex-based rights, open inquiry, and democratic discourse.
Read the article in German here:
Dem Kampf gegen Hassrede fällt die Meinungsfreiheit
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