News roundup: Snapshots from around Europe
05 September 1999
- Czech Minister of Justice will not file a complaint for breach of law in racially motivated killing; skinheads attack witnesses during trial; more racial discrimination and violence against Roma in the Czech Republic
- Non-Romani death caps long housing crisis in Hungary
- Romani refugees from Kosovo drown while crossing the Adriatic; Macedonian officials warn that they will send Kosovo refugees back; police expel Kosovo Roma from two Montenegrin towns
- Roma continue to flee from eastern Europe
- British Home Secretary Jack Straw reported for inciting racial hatred
- Ethnic Albanians beat two Romani men in Macedonia
- Romani man shot in police custody in Slovakia
- Continuing police brutality in Bulgaria
- Czech Republic amends anti-Romani law
- Forced eviction of 1000 Roma in Spain
- Roma sent away from campsite in Norway
- Roma evicted from Paris camp
- Police officers assault Romani man in Macedonia
- Hungarian court denies compensation to family of wrongly convicted Romani man
- Police attempt to evict families from settlement in Greece
- Roma unable to return to their homes in Bosnia-Herzegovina
- Police abuse of Travellers in Ireland
- Harassment and abuse of Roma by Ukrainian authorities
