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art. 20
Ley Constitucional contra el Odio, por la Convivencia Pacífica y la Tolerancia
- Target
- Publicly fostering, promoting, or inciting hatred, discrimination, or violence against a person or set of persons on listed grounds
- Test
- Public, or by any means apt for public dissemination. Grounds include real or presumed membership of a social, ethnic, religious, or political group, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other discriminatory motive.
- Max
- Prison of 10 to 20 years, without prejudice to civil and disciplinary liability
Quien públicamente o mediante cualquier medio apto para su difusión pública fomente, promueva o incite al odio, la discriminación o la violencia contra una persona o conjunto de personas, en razón de su pertenencia real o presunta a determinado grupo social, étnico, religioso, político, de orientación sexual, de identidad de género, de expresión de género o cualquier otro motivo discriminatorio será sancionado con prisión de diez a veinte años, sin perjuicio de la responsabilidad civil y disciplinaria por los daños causados.
Official Spanish, Gaceta Oficial n° 41.274 of 8 November 2017 (reprinted G.O. 41.276 of 10 November 2017), art. 20. Asamblea Nacional hosts the instrument. Working English: whoever publicly or by any means apt for public dissemination fosters, promotes, or incites hatred, discrimination, or violence against a person or set of persons by reason of real or presumed membership of a listed group — 10 to 20 years.
Cite · Ley Constitucional contra el Odio, art. 20 (G.O. 41.274 / 41.276) · as of 2026-09-05
- Do not treat art. 20 as Israel §24. Do not quote art. 21 as if it were the speech offence.
- Overlay. EXTRA_PARTIAL named art. 21; that article is a hate-motive aggravator for any offence, not the speech crime. The operative incitement cell is art. 20.
- Constitutional status of the 2017 Constituent Assembly instrument is Disputed. The quote is of the published text as applied.