Oulu city councillor convicted of ethnic agitation again

The Oulu district court on Wednesday convicted a councillor of the Oulu City Corporation for ethnic agitation.

The court sentenced the councillor named Junes Lokka to 70 day-fines for two counts of ethnic agitation charges, reported the national broadcaster Yle.

The convict posted online videos depicting Muslims and other immigrants as being inferior to others and the court found the videos violated laws on human dignity and religious freedom.

One of the videos that Lokka released on Facebook and YouTube in the summer of 2016 was a recording of a rally in Helsinki focusing anti-immigrant and Islamophobic speech, while the second video posted in September 2016 was also found defamatory to immigrants and Muslims.

The city councillor is also an anti-immigration activist and politician and has a previous conviction for ethnic agitation, for which he was fined, said the Yle report.