Meaning of lex Åberg | Babel Free

Definitioner

The colloquial term for a specific law; more formally known as hets mot folkgrupp (“incitement to ethnic or racial hatred”).

Sweden, common-gender, dated

Exempel

“[…] ådrog honom botesdom med stöd av ”lex Åberg”, som förbjuder smädelse mot folkgrupp.”

[…] he incurred a penalty under the "Lex Åberg", which prohibits defamation against ethnic groups.

“Ett värv som väckte internationell anstöt och till slut starkt bidrog till att lagen om hets mot folkgrupp tillkom 1948, en lag som under flera år hade det vardagliga namnet “lex Åberg”.”

A move that caused international outrage and in the end greatly contributed to the addition of the law on incitement against ethnic groups in 1948, a law that for several years had the colloquial name "lex Åberg".

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