Policing and criminal justice system in Slovakia
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Customs officers wound refugees
Two Asian migrants were wounded on 17 April by customs police, one was in a critical condition.
1 December 2004 (81 words)
Roma in self-defence case sentenced to 12 years
A 20-year-old Roma, Mario Bango, who went to the aid of his brother who was being beaten up by a well-known skinhead in March 2001, was sentenced in November 2003 to twelve years in prison.
10 March 2004 (85 words)
US report finds police abused Roma
A report from the US State Department, published in March, alleges that although the Slovak government generally respected human rights, police officers have beaten and abused people, especially Roma during 2003.
1 March 2004 (87 words)
Plans for specialist officers denounced as racist
Roma leaders have denounced as fascist, plans to introduce specially trained officers to assist in keeping order in Roma settlements.
27 January 2004 (146 words)
ECRI reports on racism
The Council of Europe's expert body on combating racism, the European Commission Against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI), has reported on racism in Slovakia.
27 January 2004 (91 words)
No police action after anti-Roma attack in Poprad
On 14 September 2002 two Romani men and a woman were attacked as they returned from a shopping mall, by a groups of Slovaks with baseball bats and knives in Poprad in eastern Slovakia.
1 October 2002 (120 words)
Roma death in police custody
Six policemen are under investigation following the death in July 2001 in Revuca of an elderly Roma man who was reportedly beaten by police officers who used truncheons and jumped on the victim.
1 August 2002 (91 words)
European challenge over 1999 Roma death in custody
The ERRC has slammed the investigation into the death in police custody in August 1999 of the Romani man L'ubomir Sarissky.
1 January 2002 (214 words)
Romany dies in police custody
In the early hours of 6 July 2001 Karol Sendrei died while in the custody of the police in Revúca.
1 January 2002 (91 words)
Young boy shot during police raid of Roma settlement
A 13-year-old Roma boy, Ján M. was shot in the leg when riot troops of a police unit raided a Romani settlement in Zehra, central Slovakia, on 2 December 1999.
1 August 2000 (86 words)
Poprad - Roma dies in police custody
An investigation is underway after a Romani man was shot dead in police custody in August in the central Slovak town of Poprad.
1 March 2000 (132 words)
Roma villagers subjected to indiscriminate police raids
The Spisska Bela-based Romani organisation Zor reports of a violent police raid on a Romani settlement in the central Slovak town of Rudnary on July 4.
1 March 1999 (72 words)
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