We were given a sneak preview of the material that NGO FIDH has prepared for the International Criminal Court to argue that hate speech by Russians against Ukrainians should be prosecuted as a crime against humanity. But as Ilya Nuzov, Head of FIDH’s International Justice Desk (Interim) and Anna Vyshniakova, an expert on speech crimes in Ukraine, and head of LingvaLexa told us, there are many challenges.

For book/TV choices: Slavenka Drakulic They Would Never Hurt a Fly; Jade McGlynn Memory Makers; The Big Bang Theory; Atrocity Speech Law by Gregory Gordon  

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