Sydney:
Australia adopted severe anti-hatred crime laws on Thursday, including mandatory minimum penalties for terrorists and showing hate symbols, in an attempt to tackle a recent increase in anti-Semitism. The laws will impose minimum prison sentences between 12 months for less serious hate crimes, such as giving a Nazi greeting in public, and six years for those who are guilty of terrorism gods.
“I want people involved in anti -Semitism that are called to account, are locked up,” said Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who initially had opposed minimal penalties for hate crimes, to Sky News.
The government's proposal was first introduced in parliament last year, creating new offenses for threatening strength or violence against people based on their race, religion, nationality, national or ethnic origin, political opinion, sex, sex Sexual orientation, gender identity and intersex status.
In recent months, an escalation of attacks on synagogues, buildings and cars from Jewish community members throughout the country, including the discovery of a caravan loaded with explosives with a list of Jewish goals in Sydney.
Albanian was criticized by the center -right opposition party because he is weak about crime and not tackling the rise in anti -Semitism.
The liberal-national coalition started to ask for compulsory minimum penalties to be added to the hate crimes last month.
Interior Minister Tony Burke, who introduced the changes that make the provisions possible on Wednesday, said that the changes were the “most difficult laws that Australia ever had against hate crimes”.
The state of New South Wales, where most anti -Semitic attacks have taken place, said on Wednesday that it would also strengthen its hate laws to reflect the already in West -Australia and Victoria.
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