Violence and harassment in Slovakia
Recent stories
Bratislava: arson at anti-racist office
The offices of People Against Racism in Bratislava were attacked and deliberately set on fire on the night of 7 May.
9 May 2004 (119 words)
Roma attacked in western Slovakia
The European Roma Rights Center has written to the Slovak prime minister about alarming events in the village of Zahorska Ves, where Roma have been subjected to a number of serious racist attacks, property has been destroyed and Roma expulsion threatened by the local mayor.
16 February 2004 (256 words)
Racially-motivated crime on the increase
According to the news wire SITA, racially-motivated crimes have increased.
2 February 2004 (57 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)
Eastern Slovakia: gravestones desecrated
More than 130 gravestones were damaged or destroyed in Kosice, in eastern Slovakia, in attacks which coincided with Hitler's birthday.
1 August 2002 (29 words)
Anger over Ambassador's comments about Roma
The Slovak Ambassador to the Netherlands, Stefan Pauliny, responding to a day of action in Europe against racist attacks on Gypsies, has said that the Roma in Slovakia 'prefer to avoid working, are engaged in criminality... are molesting their surroundings and disregarding the rule of law'.
1 March 1995 (99 words)
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