Judgement – rroma.org https://rroma.org Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:53:33 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://rroma.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cropped-greenwheel_large-1-32x32.png Judgement – rroma.org https://rroma.org 32 32 Germany: Judgement https://rroma.org/germany-judgement/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=germany-judgement Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:53:33 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=31938 A blogger with around 52,000 followers posted on Twitter (now X) accusing a “large portion of the Sinti and Roma” of excluding themselves “from civilized society.” She listed accusations including welfare fraud, truancy, theft, littering, and “rental nomadism.”

The Higher Regional Court of Jena clarified that not every discriminatory statement violates human dignity. Describing Sinti and Roma as “rotating Europeans with a property-ownership disability” is grossly tasteless and defamatory—but not incitement to hatred.

]]> North Macedonia https://rroma.org/north-macedonia/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=north-macedonia Sun, 15 Mar 2026 15:26:33 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=31822 The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) condemned North Macedonia for violating several provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. The country had confiscated passports of Roma who were forced returned from Germany after they had lost their asylum case.

]]> Slovakia: Special Schools https://rroma.org/slovakia-special-schools-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=slovakia-special-schools-2 Fri, 07 Mar 2025 09:58:19 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=27400 Public Defender of Rights (VOP) Róbert Dobrovodský considers the incorrect placement of children from marginalized Roma communities in the special education system to be an extremely serious violation of the right to education. According to him, this has irreversible negative consequences for their future, as well as negative consequences for society as a whole. The Ombudsman pointed this out in connection with the decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in the case of Salay v. the Slovak Republic, in which it found a violation of the right to education and the prohibition of discrimination against a pupil of Roma origin by his placement in a special class for children with mild mental disabilities.

Unfortunately, placing Roma children in special schools happens still too often.

]]> Czechia, Roma, and Strasbourg https://rroma.org/czechia-roma-and-strasbourg/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=czechia-roma-and-strasbourg Wed, 19 Jun 2024 06:23:19 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=24276 The city of Vsetín will file a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg in the case of the eviction of Roma in 2006. In his opinion, the right to a fair trial was violated in the dispute. The court condemned the city of Vsetín for the eviction of Roma from a boarding house in 2006.

The house was in bad condition, and the city then had it demolished. Some of its residents, including the plaintiffs in the case, had previously failed to pay rent. The Roma ended up either in container houses elsewhere in Vsetín or in old houses outside the region.

]]> Brno Protests https://rroma.org/brno-protests-4/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=brno-protests-4 Tue, 26 Mar 2024 12:16:14 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=23472 On the one hand, indignation over Friday’s verdict of the Brno Regional Court, which acquitted Ukrainians in the case of the death of a young Roma at the Brno Reservoir, on the other hand, disappointment over the low turnout. This is what the demonstration looked like, where about five dozen Roma gathered in front of the Brno courthouse on Sunday afternoon.

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