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EurActiv (29 July 2020)

Vlagyiszlav Makszimov

Violence and police harassment against Romani people – Europe’s largest ethnic minority with six million people living in the EU – has been exacerbated by the health pandemic, rights organisations warn.

“Since April, during the COVID period, we’ve had at least eight [police violence] cases reported in Romania, three in Slovakia,” and more in Serbia, Jonathan Lee, a Romani activist working at the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) representing victims during litigation, told EURACTIV.

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