{"id":8363,"date":"2017-09-16T07:08:48","date_gmt":"2017-09-16T07:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/en\/?p=8363"},"modified":"2024-04-08T13:25:13","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T13:25:13","slug":"racist-assault-deemed-hate-crime-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/en\/racist-assault-deemed-hate-crime-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Racist Assault Only Deemed a Hate Crime After Appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In March, two young men in Kaunas, Lithuania, threatened a pregnant woman and insulted her husband, an Irish citizen of Indian descent, by calling him names and urging him to go back home.<\/p>\n<p>The Kaunas District Court found that this only amounted to a breach of the public order.<\/p>\n<p>The Kaunas Regional Court later changed this to a hate crime, finding that the defendants mocked the man and wanted to humiliate him specifically due to his race. More<a href=\"http:\/\/manoteises.lt\/straipsnis\/rasistinis-ispuolis-kaune-pripazintas-neapykantos-nusikaltimu\/\"> (in Lithuanian)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In March, two young men in Kaunas, Lithuania, threatened a pregnant woman and insulted her husband, an Irish citizen of Indian descent, by calling him names and urging him to go back home. The Kaunas District Court found that this only amounted to a breach of the public order. The Kaunas Regional Court later changed &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/en\/racist-assault-deemed-hate-crime-appeal\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Racist Assault Only Deemed a Hate Crime After Appeal<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":4011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[7,127],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.13 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Racist Assault Only Deemed a Hate Crime After Appeal - \u017dmogaus teisi\u0173 steb\u0117jimo institutas<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/en\/racist-assault-deemed-hate-crime-appeal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Racist Assault Only Deemed a Hate Crime After Appeal - \u017dmogaus teisi\u0173 steb\u0117jimo institutas\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In March, two young men in Kaunas, Lithuania, threatened a pregnant woman and insulted her husband, an Irish citizen of Indian descent, by calling him names and urging him to go back home. 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