Deceased

Olga Fečová (PHOTO: Lukáš Houdek)
Olga Fečová, author, foster mother and pedagogical assistant, has passed away in the Czech Republic
1.3.2022 11:54 full story
Czech Police say prisoner killed himself, his relatives don't believe it, dozens of Romani community members protest outside the prison
13.1.2022 16:14 full story
Civil society members of the Czech Govt Council for Romani Minority Affairs: Petr Uhl was and will always remain a person who gave many Romani men and women a hope of a more dignified life
10.12.2021 10:47 full story
Greece: Romani girl caught in sliding doors dies due to shocking indifference of bystanders, her family sees it as racism
7.12.2021 18:13 full story
Petr Uhl, dissident in communist Czechoslovakia, human rights defender and journalist, has passed away
2.12.2021 7:37 full story
Doctor in Slovakia refuses treatment to Romani toddler because his mother was unvaccinated, he died shortly thereafter
4.10.2021 7:09 full story
Svatopluk Karásek, former Czech Govt Human Rights Commissioner, politician, religious figure and songwriter, has passed away
20.12.2020 18:51 full story
Leading Romani activist and co-founder of Dikh TV, the musician Lajos "Paci" Balogh, has succumbed to COVID-19 at the age of 28
15.11.2020 7:59 full story
Czech Republic: Romani author Andrej Giňa has passed away
1.10.2015 0:40 On 30 September the author Andrej Giňa passed away at the age of 79 after a difficult illness. full story
Juan de Dios Ramírez-Heredia: Hunger and fear are stronger than barbed-wire fences
23.9.2015 1:32 The following opinion piece by Juan de Dios Ramírez-Heredia, former Member of the European Parliament and current President of the Spanish Romani Union, was first distributed through the Roma Virtual Network on 17 September 2015 and is reprinted here with permission.full story

Nine aid workers of Czech NGO murdered in Afghanistan
2.6.2015 13:49 Nine Afghani employees of the Czech organization People in Need were killed last night during an attack perpetrated by armed men in the north of Afghanistan. Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported the news, citing a local representative, and the Czech News Agency confirmed the reports with the organization's director, Šimon Pánek. full story
World-famous Spanish guitarist Paco de Lucía has passed away
Mexico, 26.2.2014 20:06, (ROMEA) Paco de Lucía, the phenomenal Spanish guitarist, passed away in Mexico yesterday at the age of 66. The news was announced by the artist's family and local officials in his native town of Algeciras in Andalusia. full story
Czech activist and journalist Emil Szirmai has passed away
Prague, 5.11.2013 16:23, (ROMEA) Emil Szirmai has passed away. Many people knew him better than I did. His colleagues and friends of many years can write about what he worked on his whole life, what his interests were. For my part I can say that Emil was intensively involved, for more than 10 years, in questions of equality and justice for national minorities. In connection with Romani people he developed and worked on activities both in nonprofit organizations and in state institutions that were sometimes just amazing. full story