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National Council for Combatting Discrimination in print media

                                                             The most significant articles published by the print media in
                                                             2020, that made reference to our institution’s activity, were
Monitoring period:                                           the following:
January-December 2020
                                                             Târgu Secuiesc                            alleging that the state should decide
                                                             Municipality sanctioned                   who should have children, making
                                                                                                       a specific reference to Roma people,
                                                             for discrimination based

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                                                                                                       in relation to whom he stated that
                                                             on ethnic criteria                        they are only giving birth to children
                                                             NCCD sanctioned the Târgu Secuiesc        in order to get a state-sponsored
                                                             Municipality with an administra-          allowance and that they represent a
   monitored news items refer monitored news items           tive fine amounting to 2,000 lei          problem for Romania. NCCD found
   to NCCD’s activity;        refer to the activity of the   for discriminatory actions, as the        that such a message represents an
                              President of NCCD;             administrators of the institution’s       infringement of the right to digni-
                                                             Facebook page had posted informa-         ty, which belong to a social group,
                                                             tion of public nature in Hungarian        respectively to an ethnic group,
                                                             language only.                            thus representing a form of hate-
National publications that were included in the                                                        speech and going beyond the limits

monitoring exercise: Adevărul, Cotidianul, Curentul,                                                   of freedom of speech.
Curierul Național, Evenimentul Zilei, Gazeta Sporturilor,    Târgu Mures mayor
Gândul, G4Media, HotNews, Jurnalul Național,                 sanctioned for
Libertatea, Mediafax, Newsweek, Prosport, România
                                                             hate-speech                               Bank sanctioned for
Liberă, Ziare.com.;                                                                                    refusing to open a bank
                                                             Mr. Dorin Florea, the mayor of Targu
                                                                                                       account to a blind person
NCCD was most often mentioned in: HotNews, Ziare.            Mures, was sanctioned by NCCD with
com, Adevărul and Gândul.                                    an administrative fine amounting          NCCD sanctioned a commercial
                                                             to 10,000 lei, after having posted        bank with an administrative fine
                                                             on Facebook a number of messages          amounting to 3,000 lei for having

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