In September 2020 the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg decided on application we submitted in case of police violence against two Romani men from Moldava nad Bodvou they faced during police raid in 2013 in a local Roma marginalised community in Eastern Slovakia.

The court ruled that Slovak state authorities violated both their right to protection from police violence and their right to its effective investigation. Our attorney represented Roma applicants in proceedings before the ECtHR.

However, in Slovak courts they both have been facing criminal charges of false accusations against police officers who have committed violence against them.        

At today’s hearing, the District Court Košice finally discontinued criminal proceedings also against the second of these men. It did so after the district prosecutor dropped the charges against him.