Campaign encourages witnesses to report hate crime

On 26th September victims of hate crime joined Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Local Government, Aileen Campbell, the Cabinet Secretary for Justice, Humza Yousaf, Chief Inspector Shaheen Baber and Inspector John Graham from Police Scotland at the Writer’s Museum in Edinburgh, to launch a new campaign spelling out the importance of reporting hate crime. In Scotland, the law recognises hate crimes as motivated by prejudice based on race, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity and disability. New research reveals that over 80% of people in Scotland would report a mugging of…

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