Calling someone a "foreign pig" or "dirty asylum-seeker" is insulting but is **t against Switzerland's anti-racism law, the country's top court said in a ruling released Friday. The Federal Tribunal found in favour of a police ******r who had used the slurs when he arrested an Algerian suspected thief. The Federal Tribunal said that while such terms were clearly insulting, they were too broad to fall foul of anti-racism rules because they did **t target a particular ethnic group, race or religion. The court ruling was published as the UN Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) issued its findings from a review of Switzerland's record, a regular procedure for signatory states.
03-25-2014, 12:07 AM
Calling someone 'foreign pig' **t racist: Swiss court
Calling someone a "foreign pig" or "dirty asylum-seeker" is insulting but is **t against Switzerland's anti-racism law, the country's top court said in a ruling released Friday. The Federal Tribunal found in favour of a police ******r who had used the slurs when he arrested an Algerian suspected thief. The Federal Tribunal said that while such terms were clearly insulting, they were too broad to fall foul of anti-racism rules because they did **t target a particular ethnic group, race or religion. The court ruling was published as the UN Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) issued its findings from a review of Switzerland's record, a regular procedure for signatory states.
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