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videoSlovak Govt Plenipotentiary for Roma: We don't want closed settlements, testing residents for COVID-19 will prevent repressive measures

3.4.2020 7:08  full story

Romani activist will seek to become chair of Progressive Slovakia party

16.3.2020 9:06  full story

Newly-elected Slovak MP Jarmila Vaňová: I thank Romani voters for coming out and demanding change

1.3.2020 16:47  full story

European Court of Human Rights finds Slovak authorities did not properly investigate police brutality against Romani boy

31.1.2020 11:32  full story

Slovak President Čaputová awards Romani doctor and human rights activist with state honors

3.1.2020 10:10  full story

For a third time, Slovak court acquits police of brutalizing Romani children a decade ago, prosecutor appealing

7.12.2019 5:18  full story

Slovak bus company caught on video repeatedly denying some Romani passengers service

19.9.2019 7:24  full story

Slovak Plenipotentiary for Romani Communities: We will focus on education and employment

8.7.2019 10:28  full story

Czech film festival visited by seven Romani children from Slovak settlements to promote "Silent Days"

5.7.2019 7:53  full story

Slovakia has elected its first female President - Čaputová thanks voters in Romanes again

31.3.2019 10:59  full story

Slovak President Andrej Kiska gives state honors to two Romani figures

10.1.2019 7:33  full story

European Court of Human Rights: Slovakia did not sufficiently investigate racial motivation of shooting six years ago

19.12.2018 9:10  full story

Slovakia has 41 Romani mayors - 39 male and two female - a record high

13.11.2018 15:13  full story

Slovakia: Two-day meeting of V4 presidents was to cover Romani community issues, among other matters

15.10.2018 11:47 On 11 October a two-day meeting began in the High Tatras of Slovakia between the presidents of four Central European countries comprising the so-called Visegrád Four (V4). The traditional summit between the presidents of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia was hosted by Slovak President Andrej Kiska, whose country is now presiding over the V4.  full story

Slovakia now has an MP from the Romani minority, Štefan Vavrek

19.9.2018 9:14 Wire services report that Slovakia's unicameral legislature has just seated a new MP. After MP Edita Pfundtnerová (Most-Híd) relinquished her seat in order to become a state secretary at the Justice Ministry, Romani community member Štefan Vavrek has now replaced her.  full story

Slovakia: Two Romani children shot in Poprad, perpetrator not yet identified

16.5.2018 18:47 Slovak news server TVnoviny.sk reports that two children have ended up in hospital in Poprad, Slovakia after being shot last weekend. Police say a still-unidentified perpetrator fired an air pistol at them on the street in the Matejovec quarter of Poprad.  full story

Slovak appeals court says video of police abuse of Romani children must be admitted into evidence

7.5.2018 7:17 A Slovak appeals court has overturned a second first-instance court verdict acquitting all 10 current and former police officers last year of abusing Romani children at a police station in the east of the country. Their humiliation of the children happened in 2009 and was recorded by them using their mobile phones.  full story

Slovakia: Police arrest Romani candidate, his daughter insists he is innocent

21.10.2017 8:20 On Friday, 13 October, hundreds of members of Slovakia's National Financial Police Unit, the National Crime Agency, and other police forces intervened against people in the regions of Banská Bystrica, Bratislava, Košice and Prešov. "Officers involved in Operation SHARK are seaching houses and other places in more than 40 buildings with the aim of documenting serious economic criminal activity," the police posted to their Facebook profile.

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Amnesty International: We demand justice for the victims of the Slovak Police raid on the Roma settlement of Moldava nad Bodvou

19.9.2017 12:11 Amnesty International (AI) finds the approach taken by the authorities toward investigating charges of police violence from 2013 in the Romani community living on Budulovská Street in Moldava nad Bodvou, Slovakia to be unjust. AI believes the authorities' handling of this case has violated binding international treaties on human rights.
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Slovak Police charge four eyewitnesses to raid on Romani settlement with making false accusations

12.9.2017 7:48 Slovak newspaper Denník N reported on 7 September that the Slovak Police are pressing charges of making false accusations against the men who alleged that officers beat them up during a raid on a Romani settlement in eastern Slovakia four years ago. The officers were initially charged themselves with trespassing and abusing the power of a public official through the indiscriminate use of force bordering on repression.  full story