On the occasion of International Romani Day, we want to share some conclusions from our latest report on discrimination against Roma people in the Spanish criminal justice system.
A judge has given an Afghan man a lighter-than-usual sentence for raping an 18 year-old girl to avoid the man losing his refugee residency status. The normal sentence is 24 months in prison but the man was given only...
Two separate attacks on migrants, which left several people injured in the state of Saxony-Anhalt this weekend, are being investigated by German police. Two men assaulted two Afgan teenegers in Hasselfelde, while in...
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico could lose his parliamentary majority after Most-Hid, a junior party in his coalition, considers quitting the bloc in reaction to the murder of investigative journalist Jan Kuciak. In...
Several EU countries fall short in dealing with people with special needs, including those with a disability, who are suspected of or charged with a crime.
The Office of the Public Prosecutor and police officials have requested a visa requirement for Albanians to reduce the influx of serious criminals from Albania. Since the beginning of 2016, Amsterdam police have...
Crime suspects with special needs, such as people with cognitive impairment or dyslexia, are not properly identified by Swedish authorities and may not understand the legal proceedings they go through.
The parliamentary groups CDU/CSU, Grüne, SPD and Die Linke have requested a second commission of inquiry in order to clarify the crimes of the right-wing terror group NSU (National Socialist Underground). Set to start...
The German Bundestag has passed a new law allowing for telecommunications data retention. The law also introduces a new statutory offense for receiving and handling stolen data, which may be used to criminalize...
Education, housing, employment, crime prevention — these are the priorities identified by the deputy mayor of Vilnius in the planning of the new Roma integration program. There are 2,100 Roma in Lithuania, with 500...
