Human Rights Act amendment to strengthen incitement laws
The Government is amending the Human Rights Act 1993 to include religious communities in the existing protections against incitement that have been in place since the 1970s.It is already illegal to publish or distribute threatening, abusive, or insulting words likely to ‘excite hostility against’ or ‘bring into contempt’ any group on the grounds of colour, race, ethnic or national origins. Those grounds will be extended, in both the civil (section 61) and criminal (section 131) provision...