The Hate Crime Act took effect on April 1.
Scottish Tory calls for the new Hate Crime Act to be repealed have been rejected by MSPs.The Scottish Tories have led the charge against the Act, which came into force on April 1 and sparked an early deluge of complaints.
Mr Findlay, a former journalist, said the process of police investigation under the Act could be seen as a punishment. It is not clear how many of those nine recorded instances were relating to the old offence of stirring up racial hatred. Responding to Mr Findlay, community safety minister Siobhian Brown said there had been “vexatious complaints” made “in order to overwhelm police systems” and she called on all MSPs to “send a strong message to all those making vexatious complaints to stop doing so”.
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