Extreme-Right politics in Bulgaria
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ECRI reports on Bulgarian racism
A special report has been issued by ECRI on racism within Bulgaria.
27 January 2004 (90 words)
Anti-Roma rhetoric in local elections causes concern
Because of the anti-Roma rhetoric in the run up to local elections in Bulgaria, a seminar of prominent Roma politicians, journalists and public figures, organised by Drom Dromendar, the Human Rights Project and the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee, was held on 12 November.
24 November 2003 (151 words)
Silistra: protests follow murder of Roma man
On the evening of 2 August Gunal Taliat, a Muslim Turkish-speaking Roma, was killed in a brawl outside a disco in Silistra, in the north-east of the country on the Danube.
15 August 2003 (108 words)
Samakov, Sofia region: serious attacks on Roma
According to the Sofia-based Human Rights Project, a gang attack on two Roma by twenty Bulgarian youths at a bus station in Samakov, Sofia region, left one of the Roma seriously injured.
1 August 2002 (85 words)
Anti-Roma violence
Arson investigated
1 January 2002 (144 words)
Roma civil rights must be addressed
Bulgaria's National Ethnic and Demographic Council is working with Roma representatives to draft a new programme to improve the situation facing Bulgaria's estimated 600000 Roma population (7% of total population).
1 October 1998 (43 words)
Homeless Roma boy killed by skinheads
A 15-year-old Roma boy, Metodi Rainov, died after skinheads threw him out of a second floor window of an abandoned building right behind the Court Palace, a regular meeting place for young Rom in central Sofia.
1 October 1998 (119 words)
Still no religious freedom for minority communities
The Tolerance Foundation in Sofia has criticised the government for its failure to scrap the 1949 Denominations Act which denies religious freedom to minority communities.
1 May 1998 (144 words)
Official attitudes fuel popular racism as economic crisis worstens
In recent years, foreigners and Roma have suffered an inordinate number of racially-motivated assaults but racial motivation is consistently played down in the courts.
1 February 1998 (278 words)
Roma deaths
Veska Angelova, a 13-year-old Romani girl was shot and killed at a disco in Sofia, as cited in the daily newspaper Trud .
1 February 1998 (67 words)
Security guard opens fire on Roma boy
Stefan Stefanov, a 7-year-old Roma boy, was hit by a rubber bullet after a guard at a mill complex in the city of Silven opened fire on a group of Roma, as cited in Duma.
1 February 1998 (50 words)
Racially-motivated killing acknowledged
Five youths, aged 15 to 17, have been found guilty of the racially-motivated murder of the 19-year-old Roma, Emil Trifonov on 9 December 1996.
1 February 1998 (144 words)
Summary justice for Roma army deserters
The Human Rights Project (Sofia) has hired a lawyer to represent the families of two Romani soldiers, Kuncho Anguelov, 20, and Kiril Petkov, 20, who deserted their posts and were shot and killed by a military police officer on 19 July 1996 in the village of Lesura in the Vratsa district in northwestern Bulgaria.
1 March 1997 (98 words)
Mayor beats Roma for picking sunflowers!
The mayor from the village of Galiche has been accused of violently assaulting a Romani man on 24 August.
1 March 1997 (190 words)
No prosecution following skinhead attack in Samokov
The Human Rights Project is concerned that no one has been arrested after a group of about 20 skinheads attacked three Roma in the town of Samokov in west-central Bulgaria.
1 March 1997 (97 words)
Elected official accused of killing Roma in Elin Pelin
The chair of the municipal council in Elin Pelin is accused of killing the 24-year-old Roma, Valentin Gheorghiev.
1 March 1997 (186 words)
Concern over skinhead attacks
The Human Rights Project are concerned about skinhead attacks in the city of Pleven, most often against Roma and African students from the local Medical Academy.
1 August 1996 (67 words)
Cemetery desecrations
There have been two reported desecrations of cemetaries in Bulgaria in April.
1 June 1995 (66 words)
Rom dies following arson in Sofia
An arson attack on a building in which Rom families lived in the market area of Bulgaria's capital, Sofia, has left one person dead and fifteen people injured.
1 June 1995 (55 words)
Villagers force Romany to flee
Amnesty International has expressed concern about racial violence against Roma in the village of Dolno Belotintsi.
1 July 1994 (392 words)
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