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Case Decision Year

Region

Africa (5)
Asia and Asia Pacific (17)
Europe and Central Asia (108)
Middle East and North Africa (1)
North America (21)
Latin-America and Caribbean (9)

Countries

Decision Direction

Expands Expression (50)
Mixed Outcome (61)
Contracts Expression (51)

Global Perspective

National Perspective (109)
International and/or Regional Perspective (54)

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162 Cases Found

June 11, 1993

Wisconsin v. Mitchell

United States Racism

August 27, 1992

R. v. Zundel

Canada Vague Standard

June 22, 1992

R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul

United States Racism

December 13, 1990

R. v. Keegstra

Canada Content-Based Restriction, Discrimination, Racism

November 24, 1987

Chopra v. State of West Bengal

India

November 8, 1986

Faurisson v. France

France

October 11, 1979

Glimmerveen and Hagenbeek v The Netherlands

Netherlands

June 9, 1969

Brandenburg v. Ohio

United States Content-Based Restriction, Incitement, Racism

August 25, 1958

S. Veerabadran Chettiar vs E. V. Ramaswami Naicker

India Blasphemy, Public Order

April 5, 1957

Ramji Lal Modi v. State of Uttar Pradesh

India Blasphemy