澳大利亚极右翼领袖保琳·韩森种族歧视案上诉被驳回Australian Far-Right Leader Pauline Hanson Loses Appeal in Racial Discrimination Case

澳大利亚联邦法院法官梅丽莎·佩里于周一正式驳回了保琳·韩森的上诉，维持了此前对其作出的种族歧视和诋毁判定。该判决确认，这位单一国家党领袖在2022年的推文中，要求穆斯林参议员梅林·法鲁基返回巴基斯坦的行为，构成了针对其移民背景的种族歧视与诋毁。

Justice Melissa Perry of the Federal Court of Australia on Monday formally dismissed the appeal by Pauline Hanson, upholding the prior legal finding that the One Nation party leader had racially discriminated against and vilified Muslim Senator Mehreen Faruqi. The decision confirms that Hanson's 2022 social media post, which told the Pakistan-born senator to return to Pakistan, constituted an unlawful act of racial vilification under the country's laws.

在此次上诉中，韩森试图推翻联邦法院在2024年作出的裁决，该裁决曾认定其言论违反了澳大利亚的《种族歧视法》。法官佩里在审理后否定了韩森提出的政治言论自由辩护，判定其针对法鲁基的言论属于带有愤怒情绪的人身攻击，并具有反穆斯林倾向，因此不应受到法律保护。

Hanson had approached the Federal Court to overturn the 2024 ruling, which determined that her post breached the Racial Discrimination Act. In her judgment, Justice Perry rejected Hanson's legal defense that her comments should be protected as political communication, affirming that the post was an angry and anti-Muslim personal attack rather than a protected form of political expression.

这起引发长期法律诉讼的冲突始于2022年英国女王伊丽莎白二世去世。当时，代表左翼绿党的巴基斯坦裔澳大利亚参议员梅林·法鲁基在社交媒体上发表言论，批评英国的殖民历史。法鲁基表示，自己无法哀悼这位“建立在被殖民人民被盗取的生命、土地和财富之上的种族主义帝国的领袖”。

The conflict that led to the long-running legal battle began in 2022 following the death of Queen Elizabeth II. At the time, Mehreen Faruqi, a Pakistan-born Australian senator representing the left-leaning Greens, posted comments on social media criticizing the history of the British Empire. Faruqi stated that she could not mourn the "leader of a racist empire built on stolen lives, land and wealth of colonised people."

针对法鲁基的上述言论，极右翼单一国家党领袖保琳·韩森随后在社交媒体上发表了带有强烈个人攻击色彩的回复。韩森在帖子中直接针对法鲁基的移民背景，写道“当你移民到澳大利亚时，你占尽了这个国家的便宜”，并要求其“返回巴基斯坦”。这一言论随即引发了后续的种族歧视诉讼。

In response to Faruqi's post, Pauline Hanson, the leader of the far-right One Nation party, posted an angry personal attack on social media targeting Faruqi's immigrant background. Hanson wrote that "when you immigrated to Australia you took every advantage of this country" and told her to "go back to Pakistan." This exchange prompted the subsequent racial vilification lawsuit under Australia's Racial Discrimination Act.

在向联邦法院提起上诉时，保琳·韩森及其法律团队主要主张政治言论自由应当受到法律保护。韩森长期以来一直呼吁加强对言论自由的保护，并试图以此为由，证明其在社交媒体上针对梅林·法鲁基参议员的言论属于合法的政治表达范畴，不应被判定为违法。她认为，这类涉及移民和国家认同的讨论属于公共政治辩论的一部分。

In her appeal to the Federal Court, Pauline Hanson and her legal team centered their defense on the argument that political communication should be legally protected. Hanson, who has consistently campaigned for enhanced free speech protections in Australia, sought to justify her social media comments directed at Senator Mehreen Faruqi as a form of protected political expression. Her defense argued that such statements, even when controversial, fell within the boundaries of public political debate regarding immigration and national identity.

然而，联邦法院最终驳回了这一辩护理由，并维持了此前认定其构成种族诋毁的法律结论。法院裁定，韩森的言论并非受保护的政治表达，而是针对法鲁基移民背景和穆斯林身份的具有反穆斯林倾向的人身攻击。这一判决明确否定了将针对特定族群的种族歧视和诋毁言论包装为政治言论自由的法律主张，确认了《种族歧视法》在约束此类言论时的法律效力。

However, the Federal Court rejected this free speech defense and upheld the prior finding of racial vilification. The court determined that Hanson's post was not a protected form of political communication, but rather an angry and anti-Muslim personal attack targeting Faruqi's immigrant background. By dismissing the appeal, the court affirmed that the protections of the Racial Discrimination Act override claims of political free speech when comments cross into unlawful racial vilification.

在判决结果公布后，绿党参议员梅林·法鲁基在法庭外对这一裁决表示了热烈欢迎。她向媒体发表讲话时强调，这起诉讼的根本目的始终在于追究种族主义及其实施者的责任。法鲁基明确指出，“仇恨言论绝非言论自由”，这一判决为所有曾被不公对待的群体提供了法律支持。

Following the Federal Court's decision, Senator Mehreen Faruqi welcomed the ruling outside the courtroom, emphasizing that the legal battle was fundamentally about holding racism and its perpetrators to account. Speaking to reporters, the Greens senator declared that "hate speech is not free speech," drawing a clear distinction between protected political expression and unlawful racial vilification.

法鲁基进一步表示，当天的胜利不仅属于她个人，更是属于“每一个曾被他人指责、被强加‘在澳大利亚的归属感是有条件’的普通人”。该判决在法律层面上明确了界限，即以移民背景或宗教身份为目标的种族诋毁言论，不能借由政治言论自由的名义免除其法律责任。

Faruqi stated that the legal victory belonged to "every single person who has been made to feel that their belonging in this country is conditional." Her remarks highlighted the broader significance of the ruling, which reinforces legal protections under the Racial Discrimination Act and confirms that targeting individuals based on their immigrant background or religious identity cannot be shielded by claims of free speech.