Editing Hate crime (section)

====Spain====
Article 22(4) of the [[Spanish Penal Code]] includes a penalty-enhancement provision for crimes motivated by bias against the victim's ideology, beliefs, religion, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, illness or disability.<ref name="human" />

On 14 May 2019, the [[Spanish Attorney General]] distributed a circular instructing on the interpretation of hate crime law. This new interpretation includes [[Nazism|nazis]] as a collective that can be protected under this law.<ref>{{cite news|first=Alejandro|last=Torrús|url=https://www.publico.es/politica/delitos-odio-fiscalia-considera-delito-incitacion-odio-nazis.html|title=La Fiscalía del Estado considera delito la incitación al odio hacia los nazis|work=[[Público (Spain)|Público]]|date=22 May 2019|access-date=26 May 2019|language=es}}</ref>

Although a member of the Council of Europe, Spain is not a party to the Convention on Cybercrime.