Hate Speech and Freedom of Expression

Despite the importance of the freedom of expression in a democratic society the exercise of this right may be under certain conditions subject to certain restrictions, inter alia, also in cases of hate speech. In the definition of the concept of the hate speech the author refers to the international instruments which prohibit all forms of discrimination and all forms of expression which spread, incite, promote or justify racial, ethnic or religious hatred, and to the case-law of the ECtHR which under the concept of hate speech understands all forms of expressions of hatred and intolerance