Hate Incitement Timeline.

New Criminal Code audited: general motive factor, no hate aggravation; art 243 hostility offence without sexual orientation or gender identity.

No coverage of intersex people.

Criminal code audited: no aggravation or incitement rule naming sexual orientation, gender identity or sex characteristics.

Current state penal code audited for incitement offences naming sexual orientation or gender identity.

No coverage of intersex people.

Repealed the religious-text defence, defined hatred and added a symbol display offence.

Incitement and wilful promotion of hatred against identifiable groups including sexual orientation.

No coverage of intersex people.

No coverage of intersex people.

Declared the proposed reform constitutional; the 2017 text remains in force pending National Assembly approval.

Substituted s 18 (offences against transgender persons, 6 months to 2 years) and narrowed the definition of transgender person.

Substituted s 18 (offences against transgender persons, 6 months to 2 years) and narrowed the definition of transgender person.

No incitement offence on these grounds.

No incitement offence on these grounds.

Declared the proposed reform constitutional; the 2017 text remains in force pending National Assembly approval.

Declared the proposed reform constitutional; the 2017 text remains in force pending National Assembly approval.

Declared the proposed reform constitutional; the 2017 text remains in force pending National Assembly approval.

No incitement rule naming gender identity or sex characteristics.

Substituted s 18 (offences against transgender persons, 6 months to 2 years) and narrowed the definition of transgender person.

Substituted s 18 (offences against transgender persons, 6 months to 2 years) and narrowed the definition of transgender person.

On appeal on points of law the court upheld a Volksverhetzung conviction for a sermon targeting homosexual and queer people; OLG Bremen (2023) held Pride participants are an identifiable part of the population under §…

No incitement offence on these grounds.

No coverage of intersex people.

Current state penal code audited for incitement offences naming sexual orientation or gender identity.

Current state penal code audited for incitement offences naming sexual orientation or gender identity.

No incitement offence on these grounds.

Declared the proposed reform constitutional; the 2017 text remains in force pending National Assembly approval.

On appeal on points of law the court upheld a Volksverhetzung conviction for a sermon targeting homosexual and queer people; OLG Bremen (2023) held Pride participants are an identifiable part of the population under §…

No incitement offence on these grounds.

On appeal on points of law the court upheld a Volksverhetzung conviction for a sermon targeting homosexual and queer people; OLG Bremen (2023) held Pride participants are an identifiable part of the population under §…

No criminal incitement offence on these grounds.

Substituted s 18 (offences against transgender persons, 6 months to 2 years) and narrowed the definition of transgender person.

Declared the proposed reform constitutional; the 2017 text remains in force pending National Assembly approval.

No incitement rule naming gender identity or sex characteristics.

On appeal on points of law the court upheld a Volksverhetzung conviction for a sermon targeting homosexual and queer people; OLG Bremen (2023) held Pride participants are an identifiable part of the population under §…

On appeal on points of law the court upheld a Volksverhetzung conviction for a sermon targeting homosexual and queer people; OLG Bremen (2023) held Pride participants are an identifiable part of the population under §…

Repealed the religious-text defence, defined hatred and added a symbol display offence.

Incitement and wilful promotion of hatred against identifiable groups including sexual orientation.

No incitement offence on these grounds.

General incitement to violence offence with no named ground.

General incitement to violence offence with no named ground.

Current state penal code audited for incitement offences naming sexual orientation or gender identity.

Declared the proposed reform constitutional; the 2017 text remains in force pending National Assembly approval.

Declared the proposed reform constitutional; the 2017 text remains in force pending National Assembly approval.

General incitement to violence offence with no named ground.

No incitement offence on these grounds.

No coverage of intersex people.

General incitement to violence offence with no named ground.

Substituted s 18 (offences against transgender persons, 6 months to 2 years) and narrowed the definition of transgender person.

Substituted s 18 (offences against transgender persons, 6 months to 2 years) and narrowed the definition of transgender person.

Current state penal code audited for incitement offences naming sexual orientation or gender identity.

Current state penal code audited for incitement offences naming sexual orientation or gender identity.

No incitement rule on these grounds.

General incitement to violence offence with no named ground.

Current state penal code audited for incitement offences naming sexual orientation or gender identity.

Declared the proposed reform constitutional; the 2017 text remains in force pending National Assembly approval.

Current state penal code audited for incitement offences naming sexual orientation or gender identity.

No ground naming gender identity or sex characteristics.

General incitement to violence offence with no named ground.

General incitement to violence offence with no named ground.

No incitement rule.

No incitement rule naming gender identity or sex characteristics.

Sexual orientation, age, sex and disability were added to the general aggravating circumstance in § 42(b), to aggravated forms of violent offences and to § 356 incitement to hatred or violence.

Substituted s 18 (offences against transgender persons, 6 months to 2 years) and narrowed the definition of transgender person.

Substituted s 18 (offences against transgender persons, 6 months to 2 years) and narrowed the definition of transgender person.

Declared the proposed reform constitutional; the 2017 text remains in force pending National Assembly approval.

No incitement offence on these grounds.

No incitement rule on these grounds.

Current state penal code audited for incitement offences naming sexual orientation or gender identity.

No incitement rule on these grounds.

General incitement to violence offence with no named ground.

No coverage of intersex people.

Declared the proposed reform constitutional; the 2017 text remains in force pending National Assembly approval.

No coverage of intersex people.

General incitement to violence offence with no named ground.

Provocation to hatred, violence or discrimination including gender identity.

Provocation to hatred, violence or discrimination including gender identity.

Criminal law audited for Gambia: no rule names sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or sex characteristics.

From 23 July 2026 transgender identity was added to the stirring up offences, the aggravated offences and s 117A, with a parallel free speech clause (s 111B).

Substituted s 18 (offences against transgender persons, 6 months to 2 years) and narrowed the definition of transgender person.

No coverage of intersex people.

No incitement offence on these grounds.

Provocation to hatred, violence or discrimination including gender identity.

Current state penal code audited for incitement offences naming sexual orientation or gender identity.

Declared the proposed reform constitutional; the 2017 text remains in force pending National Assembly approval.

No incitement offence on these grounds.

Current state penal code audited for incitement offences naming sexual orientation or gender identity.

Substituted s 18 (offences against transgender persons, 6 months to 2 years) and narrowed the definition of transgender person.

No incitement offence on these grounds.

On appeal on points of law the court upheld a Volksverhetzung conviction for a sermon targeting homosexual and queer people; OLG Bremen (2023) held Pride participants are an identifiable part of the population under §…

Substituted s 18 (offences against transgender persons, 6 months to 2 years) and narrowed the definition of transgender person.

On appeal on points of law the court upheld a Volksverhetzung conviction for a sermon targeting homosexual and queer people; OLG Bremen (2023) held Pride participants are an identifiable part of the population under §…

Current state penal code audited for incitement offences naming sexual orientation or gender identity.

Substituted s 18 (offences against transgender persons, 6 months to 2 years) and narrowed the definition of transgender person.

New Criminal Code audited: general motive factor, no hate aggravation; art 243 hostility offence without sexual orientation or gender identity.

Current state penal code audited for incitement offences naming sexual orientation or gender identity.

No incitement offence on these grounds.

Substituted s 18 (offences against transgender persons, 6 months to 2 years) and narrowed the definition of transgender person.

Substituted s 18 (offences against transgender persons, 6 months to 2 years) and narrowed the definition of transgender person.

General incitement to violence offence with no named ground.