Swiss voters reaffirm antidiscrimination law that makes it illegal to publicly denigrate, discriminate or stir up hatred based on a person's sexual orientation.
People walk past a poster demanding protection from hate speech ahead of an upcoming vote in Zurich, Switzerland, on February 5, 2020. The poster reads: "Yes to protection from hatred for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people on February 9."Swiss voters on Sunday approved a referendum to ban anti-gay discrimination in a landslide, 63 percent to 37 percent, reaffirming an antidiscrimination law approved by the Swiss Federal Assembly in 2018.
The reaffirmed law makes it illegal to publicly denigrate, discriminate or stir up hatred based on a person's sexual orientation. The 2018 bill was an expansion of a law passed in 1995 that banned denigration, discrimination and hate speech on the basis of race and religion with potential fines and prison sentences for violations. The new law does not ban gender identity discrimination.
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