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| February 2025 | Australia passed comprehensive and extensive federal legislation addressing hate crimes, marking a significant legal development in addressing prejudice-motivated offenses at the national level. |
| December 31 2024 | Ireland implemented comprehensive legislation on hate crimes, bringing new legal provisions into effect. |
| June 2024 | Series of racist stabbings in Oulu by three perpetrators, with two affiliated with the outlawed Nordic Resistance Movement, causing life-threatening injuries to people with perceived immigrant backgrounds. |
| June 14 2024 | United States Department of State designates Nordic Resistance Movement and its leaders as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGT). |
| April 1 2024 | The Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021 comes into force, despite criticism from the Association of Scottish Police Superintendents. |
| March 2024 | Scottish Conservatives MSP Murdo Fraser threatened Police Scotland with legal action after his criticism of the Scottish Government's transgender policy was logged as a 'hate incident'. |
| 2023 | Antisemitic hate crimes increased by 63%, reaching an all-time high of 1,832 incidents in the United States. |
| 2023 | Antisemitic hate crimes reached an all-time high of 1,832 incidents, a 63% increase from previous years. |
| 2023 | Slovenia introduced a penalty-enhancement provision in its Penal Code to address hate crimes, allowing for increased penalties when a criminal offense is motivated by prejudice against a victim's personal characteristics such as national, racial, religious, ethnic origin, sex, color, descent, property, education, social status, political opinion, disability, or sexual orientation. |
| 2023 | The Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill (Hate Crime Bill) was reported likely to become law, with debates around its potential criminalization of hate speech and possession of hateful materials. |
| 2023 | Bulgaria expands criminal law to explicitly prohibit crimes motivated by racism, xenophobia, and sexual orientation. |
| August 2023 | Jacksonville Dollar General shooting in Florida, where a right-wing motivated shooter killed 3 people |
| July 2023 | Finnish police arrest five men in Lahti possessing assault rifles, adhering to accelerationism, and planning to attack infrastructure to ignite a race war. |
| May 2023 | Allen, Texas outlet mall shooting resulted in 8 people killed and 7 wounded |
| 2022 | Gardaí data showed a 29% increase in hate crimes and hate-related incidents, rising from 448 in 2021 to 582 in 2022. |
| November 25 2022 | School shootings in Aracruz, Espírito Santo, where a 16-year-old former student killed four people and injured 12 others. The suspect was active in neo-Nazi online communities and wore attire resembling Atomwaffen Division uniforms. |
| October 12 2022 | A right-wing terrorist attacked an LGBT venue in Bratislava, Slovakia, killing two people and injuring another in a targeted shooting. |
| August 26 2022 | A bomb explodes near a pride event in Savonlinna, with two locals arrested. |
| July 2022 | Youth steal rainbow flags from a library in Lapua and leave an improvised explosive device, interrupting a gay pride event. |
| May 2022 | Buffalo supermarket shooting targeting Black community, resulting in 10 killed and 3 wounded |
| 2021 | An Anti-Defamation League study reveals that 33% of Americans were targets of identity-based harassment in the preceding year. |
| 2021 | Gardaí recorded 448 hate crimes and hate-related incidents. |
| 2021 | The Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021 was passed. |
| 2021 | Newsnight and The Law Society Gazette investigation revealed that hate crimes against police officers were more likely to result in successful prosecutions. |
| December 4 2021 | Finnish police arrest a five-man cell in Kankaanpää suspected of planning a terror attack, confiscating firearms, explosives, and identifying them as adhering to Atomwaffen ideology. |
| March 2021 | FBI Director Christopher Wray confirmed the elevated threat of white supremacist terrorism, equating its significance to the threat previously posed by ISIS. |
| January 6 2021 | A mob of rioters supporting President Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol during attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. The attack resulted in six deaths (four rioters and two police officers), over 80 arrests, and 116 officers injured. The Proud Boys were involved, and the event was later characterized by FBI Director Christopher Wray as 'domestic terrorism'. |
| 2020 | The Zagreb shooting occurred, which was reportedly motivated by political tensions between the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) and the Independent Democratic Serb Party (SDSS), as noted by Prime Minister Andrej Plenković. |
| 2020 | Boogaloo murders in Oakland and Santa Cruz, California, resulting in 2 killed and 3 wounded |
| October 2020 | U.S. Department of Homeland Security identified white supremacists as the top domestic terrorism threat in the United States. |
| September 2020 | Law Commission proposed adding sex or gender to the list of protected characteristics for hate crime legislation. |
| August 2020 | Brenton Harrison Tarrant was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the Christchurch mosque shootings, marking the first such sentence in New Zealand history. |
| August 2020 | Alejandro Gertz Manero, Attorney General of Mexico, recommended that all murders involving women be investigated as femicides, highlighting the systemic issue of violence against women in Mexico. |
| June 2020 | Hate crimes against the black trans community began to increase following the death of George Floyd and subsequent Black Lives Matter protests. |
| June 2020 | Georgia adopts hate-crimes legislation after 16 years of debate, following the killing of Ahmaud Arbery in May 2020. |
| May 2020 | Killing of Ahmaud Arbery reinvigorated efforts to adopt a hate-crimes law in Georgia. |
| May 2020 | End of documented period showing 209 murders of LGBTQ individuals in Mexico, underscoring significant violence against the LGBTQ community. |
| May 2020 | The Polish-based 'NEVER AGAIN' Association published 'The Virus of Hate: The Brown Book of Epidemic', documenting racist and xenophobic acts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| February 2020 | Right-wing extremists were arrested after planning attacks on mosques in Germany to trigger a civil war. |
| February 19 2020 | A far-right extremist conducted mass shootings at two shisha bars in Hanau, killing nine people with immigrant backgrounds, before killing his mother and committing suicide. |
| 2019 | A study concluded that economic predictors were not the primary driver of right-wing terrorism in Europe, but instead found that levels of extra-European immigration were more significant in motivating right-wing terrorist activities. |
| 2019 | Walter Lübcke, a CDU politician from Hesse, was assassinated at his home by Stephan Ernst, a German Neo-Nazi, due to his pro-migrant views. |
| 2019 | A report revealed that 50 people in the United States were killed in murders committed by domestic extremists, with 78% of these killings perpetrated by white supremacists, 16% by anti-government extremists, 4% by 'incel' extremists, and 2% by domestic Islamist extremists. |
| 2019 | Nordic Resistance Movement is banned as a terrorist organization in Finland. |
| 2019 | The start of a significant increase in hate crimes in Canada, with Statistics Canada reporting a 72% rise in hate crimes by 2021, primarily based on race, religion, and sexual orientation during the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2019 | A UN rapporteur called on Irish representatives to introduce new hate crime legislation during a meeting at the UN in Geneva, highlighting low prosecution rates and lack of training for racially-motivated crimes. |
| 2019 | Southern Poverty Law Center reported the number of Klan groups in America had dropped from 130 to 51 between 2016 and 2019. |
| 2019 | German authorities conducted raids against a potentially dangerous group called National Socialist Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Deutschland. |
| December 5 2019 | A jury found Phillip Galea guilty of planning and preparing a terror attack. |
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