A/68/329 material, symbols or marks instigating, encouraging or spreading hatred towards any people, national minority, church or religious community. It also bans propagation or justification of ideas and actions of people who have been convicted of war crimes. Furthermore, it imposes fines for individuals participating in manifestations or associations responsible for spreading or encouraging hatred and intolerance. 78. The Public Information Act prohibits the publishing of information that encourages discrimination, hatred or violence against persons or groups of persons on the basis of their race, religion, nationality, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation. It further allows lawsuits to be filed by both victims and human rights organizations. 79. The broadcasting agency has the competence to prevent the broadcasting of programmes that instigate discrimination, hatred or violence. The Additional Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime, concerning the criminalization of acts of a racist and xenophobic nature committed through computer systems, prohibits the use of computer systems to endorse ideas or theories that support, encourage or promote hatred and discrimination. 80. The criminal code punishes actions, such as injury to reputation due to racial, religious, ethnic or other affiliation (art. 174), instigating national, racial and religious hatred and intolerance (art. 317) and racial and other discrimination (art. 387). It also recognizes racial motivation as an aggravating circumstance. 81. The recently adopted article 344 (а) of the criminal code criminalizes violent behaviour at sporting events, including incitement to national, racial and religious hatred or intolerance during sporting events through behaviour or slogans leading to violence or physical confrontation with the participants of the sporting event. 82. The Associations Act provides that the goals and operation of an association must not, among other things, be directed towards the incitement or encouragement of inequality, hatred and intolerance. The Political Parties Act stipulates that the operations of political parties must not be directed towards, among other things, the violation of constitutionally guaranteed human and minority rights or incitement and encouragement of racial, national or religious hatred. This is also stipulated in the Anti-Discrimination Act. 83. There have been increasing online activities of nationalistic organizations. The special High-Tech Crime Prosecution Office, established as part of the Higher Prosecution Office, has registered more than 1,700 cases, with a clear indication that there is an annual increase in the number of cases received. 84. Similarly, increasing manifestations of racism and xenophobia have been noted, in particular against the Roma and members of other national minorities, including racist statements towards Roma pupils and students. The Government provided detailed statistical data from the Ministry of Justice and Public Administration documenting the number of received, resolved and pending criminal cases. 85. The Ministry of Internal Affairs adopted a regulation on training, leading to the annual adoption and implementation of vocational training programmes for police officers. The training focuses on topics such as policing relating to minority groups, respecting differences and overcoming prejudices. 14/25 13-43012