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Reports of hate crimes double in Norway's capital in 2015

Xinhua, March 13, 2016 Adjust font size:

The number of hate crimes reported in Norway's capital city Oslo doubled in 2015 compared with the previous year and most of them have to do with ethnicity and religion, local media reported on Saturday.

In 2015, a total of 143 cases were reviewed as hate crimes in Oslo Police District, among which 70 were about ethnicity, 40 about religion and 33 about LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender), daily newspaper Vart Land said.

In 2014, 28 cases were about ethnicity, 15 cases about religion and 25 cases about LGBT, the report said, quoting figures from the Oslo police.

Despite the number of reported cases has increased, police believe the figures do not reflect the whole picture of hate crimes in Oslo and there are grounds for believing that there still may be many incidents that go unreported.

Police in Oslo set up a special unit in 2014 to tackle and investigate hate crimes and is currently the only police district with a separate hate crime group. Endit