Charges of Inciting Hatred on Facebook to Go to Trial

The accusation the Klaipėda resident known only by the initials V. L. engaged in incitement to hatred based on ethnicity, sexual preference, group affiliation and personal convictions or beliefs on his facebook page will be the subject of a trial. The Klaipėda District Prosecutor’s Office has completed an investigation into the local man’s alleged posting of a translation from a Russian text intended to promote Jewish stereotypes and has passed the case on to the court. He allegedly posted two comments to his own post in which he insulted Jews, homosexuals and Lithuanian politicians.

Full story in Lithuanian here.