diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/labels_select.js.coffee b/app/assets/javascripts/labels_select.js.coffee
index b88bc402801de8f7bfc003dd71abbdeecf440cbd..3b826a6af9734c4ff42689511893a7b43fba286e 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/labels_select.js.coffee
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/labels_select.js.coffee
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ class @LabelsSelect
             $a.attr('data-label-id', label.id)
 
           $a.addClass(selectedClass.join(' '))
-            .html("#{colorEl} #{_.escape(label.title)}")
+            .html("#{colorEl} #{label.title}")
 
           # Return generated html
           $li.html($a).prop('outerHTML')
@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ class @LabelsSelect
         fieldName: $dropdown.data('field-name')
         id: (label) ->
           if $dropdown.hasClass("js-filter-submit") and not label.isAny?
-            _.escape label.title
+            label.title
           else
             label.id
 
diff --git a/app/views/shared/_labels_row.html.haml b/app/views/shared/_labels_row.html.haml
index 5507a05f6c1f4690afdc794678f70716a7d40641..dce492352ac6189543ed450268a6a39c507177df 100644
--- a/app/views/shared/_labels_row.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/shared/_labels_row.html.haml
@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
 - labels.each do |label|
-  %span.label-row.btn-group{ role: "group", aria: { label: escape_once(label.name) }, style: "color: #{text_color_for_bg(label.color)}" }
-    = link_to label_filter_path(@project, label, type: controller.controller_name),
+  %span.label-row.btn-group{ role: "group", aria: { label: label.name }, style: "color: #{text_color_for_bg(label.color)}" }
+    = link_to label.name, label_filter_path(@project, label, type: controller.controller_name),
       class: "btn btn-transparent has-tooltip",
       style: "background-color: #{label.color};",
       title: escape_once(label.description),
-      data: { container: "body" } do
-      = escape_once label.name
+      data: { container: "body" }
     %button.btn.btn-transparent.label-remove.js-label-filter-remove{ type: "button", style: "background-color: #{label.color};", data: { label: label.title } }
       = icon("times")