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AI documents deaths of two Africans in police shootings
Angelo Semedo
1 January 2003 (163 words)
Brazilians protest 'gratuitous police violence'
The Brazilian embassy requested further information from the minister of foreign affairs after the police were accused of using 'gratuitous violence' in breaking up a World Cup victory celebration of 500 Brazilian football fans in the Costa de Caparica.
1 August 2002 (117 words)
New coalition government includes anti-immigrant party
Following the March general election, the centre-Right Social Democrat Party (PDS), which failed to win an absolute majority, has forged an alliance with the anti-immigrant Popular Party.
1 August 2002 (345 words)
Immigration linked to rising crime rates
Increasingly, immigrants are being blamed for rising crime and the government has taken this into account while drafting immigration laws.
1 August 2002 (100 words)
New government, new immigration/integration policies
Just over a month after the new government was sworn in, it announced plans to curb the number of immigrants that Portugal would accept from countries outside the EU and ensure that legal immigrants are better integrated into society.
1 August 2002 (290 words)
Popular Party defence minister calls for cut in immigration
In an interview with the newspaper Publico, the right-wing defence minister, Paulo Portas, called for a cut in immigration on the grounds that 'a country has obvious limits' and that 'Portugal, does not have, especially at a time of rising unemployment, conditions to accept many more immigrants'.
3 March 2002 (96 words)
Undocumented workers regularised
By January 2001, following a year-long special period for documentatation, around 130000 undocumented workers, mostly employed in the booming construction industry, were given papers.
22 January 2002 (43 words)
Portugal contemplates 'historical immigration shift'
As the 2001 census reveals that Portugal's population has exceeded 10 million for the first time, the government is grappling with what to do about undocumented workers.
1 October 2001 (227 words)
Another case involving Oporto PSP
AI cites other cases involving the Oporto PSP, including that of Mário João Augusta Rocha who claims to have been assaulted by PSP officers who then took him to Odivelas police station, where he was racially abused and punched in the bladder before being asked to show his identity papers.
1 January 2001 (74 words)
Rom dies in custody of Oporto police
A judicial inquiry was launched after a Rom died in the custody of the Public Security Police (PSP) after being arrested in the Aldoar area of Oporto.
1 January 2001 (165 words)
Roma mayor proposed to represent town associated with racism
Vila Verde, a small town in northern Portugal, has become a synonym for racism.
1 May 1998 (207 words)
Nationalists fear Spanish economic domination if regional power devolved
Portuguese nationalists claim that government plans to devolve more powers to the regions could threaten the nation's separate identity within Iberia.
1 May 1998 (159 words)
Skinhead killers of Alcindo Monteiro jailed
Eleven skinheads have been sentenced to between 14 and 18 years' imprisonment for the murder in June 1995 of Alcindo Monteiro, a Portuguese citizen of Cape Verdean origin.
1 August 1997 (60 words)
Oporto police beat man from Guinea-Bissau
Plainclothes PSP officers in Oporto are under investigation after eye-witnesses reported that they beat Gabriel Camara, a citizen of Guinea-Bissau, resident in Portugal for eight years.
1 May 1997 (47 words)
Who killed Olívio Almado?
Several police officers are under investigation after the body of a 21-year-old man of Cape Verdean origin, Olívio Almado, was found floating in the Tagus river near the docks of Alcântara in October 1996.
1 May 1997 (188 words)
Liberian footballer responds to racist insults
The world football player of the year and the winner of the FIFA fair play award says he broke the nose of a fellow player after suffering racial abuse over two fixtures.
1 March 1997 (79 words)
Portugal linked to nazi-gold scandal
The Bank of Portugal are investigating allegations that between 1943 and 1944 Portugal was the second biggest recipient, after Switzerland, of gold - including bullion bars, trinkets from jewellers shops and gold from the teeth of those who died in the death-camps - looted during Nazi conquests.
1 March 1997 (85 words)
Macau colony hand-over prompts immigration debate
The 1999 hand-over of the Portuguese colony of Macau to China is leading to much speculation about the future nature of immigration to Portugal.
1 October 1996 (247 words)
Opinion poll reveals youth intolerance
According to a recent study, Portuguese youth are among the most intolerant and most inhibited group in Europe.
1 January 1996 (59 words)
More arrests follow racist murder
Following a further six arrests, 15 skinheads are now being held for the killing of Alcindo Bernardo Fortes Monteivo.
1 January 1996 (28 words)
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