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Old May 10th, 2009 #11
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Default So muß ein guter Deutscher Zigeunern behandeln:

http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/as...0022005en.html

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...On 7 December, in Szigetvár, police officers took Géza S. and his wife, who are Roma, to the police station for questioning. "They pushed us into the car and kept repeating: ‘you are going to die now filthy gypsies,’" Géza S. told the Roma Press Center. He also stated that he and his wife were questioned in separate rooms where five officers reportedly beat them in the course of one-and-a-half hours in order to extract their "confessions" to thefts which had occurred on 25 November. The ill-treatment stopped when the victims managed to produce train tickets proving that they had not been in town on the particular date. They were released shortly afterwards. Géza S. was subsequently admitted to a hospital, where he received treatment for kidney, lung and corrugation injuries. The Baranya County Prosecutor Investigation Bureau initiated an investigation into the case.

Relatively very few cases of police ill-treatment of Roma ever result in prosecution of those suspected of human rights violations. On 21 July, the European Court of Human Rights found that the Hungarian Government had violated the European Convention on Human Rights in the case of Sandor Balogh v. Hungary. The case concerns ill-treatment in custody which occurred on 9 August 1995 in Oroshaza police station, where Sandor Balogh had been interrogated for several hours. During the questioning he was repeatedly slapped by the officers across the face and his left ear and punched...
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