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MSPs approve Scotland s controversial hate crime law
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Hate Crime Bill passes Holyrood vote despite free speech concerns
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By Chris Clements
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A new law on hate crime faces its final vote at Holyrood later.
First introduced last April, the Hate Crime Bill has attracted controversy over its lack of clarity and a perceived impact on free speech.
MSPs will debate more than 40 amendments to the bill and new protections for freedom of expression.
Stirring up hatred
The bill consolidates existing hate crime laws but also creates a new offence of stirring up hatred on the grounds of religion, sexual orientation, age, disability and transgender identity.
The offence already exists for race under the 1986 Public Order Act.
Updated: March 11, 2021, 11:28 am
Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf.
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Free speech campaigners have urged MSPs to vote down a bill characterised as the “most controversial in the Scottish Parliament’s history”.
The Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill has generated “heated debate” since it was introduced to Holyrood in April, with concerns raised over the potential “chilling effect” on freedom of speech.
The bill would consolidate a number of laws into one piece of legislation, but would also add the offence of “stirring up hatred” on the grounds of religion, sexual orientation, age, disability and transgender identity.
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