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Judgment of the Supreme Court concerning segregation of Romani children at the primary school Stará Ľubovňa – Podsadek

Added: 14. February 2023

On 15 December 2022, the Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic upheld the appeal of our NGO against the judgment of the Regional Court in Bratislava, which in April 2016 upheld the judgment of the first instance, which in December 2016 dismissed the public lawsuit initiated under the Anti-Discrimination Act against the Slovak Republic represented by the Ministry of Education and the town of Stará Ľubovňa. The Supreme Court ruled that by educating Roma children in an ethnically homogeneous school close to the local disadvantaged Roma community, they are discriminated against on the basis of their ethnicity. In doing so, it confirmed the responsibility of the defendant State, represented by the Ministry of Education, and the town of Stará Ľubovňa as the school’s founder, which, according to the Court, had failed to take sufficient preventive measures to eliminate the discrimination against Roma children in question.

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Judgment of the European Court in the case of police violence against Roma boys – M.B. and Others v. Slovakia (No. 2)

Added: 8. February 2023

The European Court of Human Rights, in its judgment in the case of M.B. and Others v. Slovakia (No. 2) of 7 February 2023, ruled on the violation of the rights of six Roma boys who faced violence at a police station in Košice in 2009. The ECtHR ruled that the responsible state authorities had violated both their right to protection from police violence and their right to an effective investigation of that violence, including an investigation into its possible racial motive. This violated their guaranteed right to protection against inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment under Article 3 of the Convention in its substantive and procedural parts. They also violated their right to protection against discrimination in the enjoyment of their guaranteed rights and freedoms under Article 14, in its procedural part, on the ground that the State authorities failed to investigate sufficiently the possible racial motive for the violence against them.

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Decision of the Regional court in Bratislava concerning alleged segregation of Roma children at a primary school in Muránska Dlhá Lúka

Added: 9. May 2022

Regional court on 27 October 2021 confirmed the decision of the District court Bratislava III, which in February 2020 dismissed actio popularis lawsuit of our non-governmental organization against the Slovak Republic, represented by the Ministry of Education, addressing segregation of Roma children at a primary school in a village Muránska Dlhá Lúka and failures of the state authorities to take effective measures to eliminate it. We filed the lawsuit in 2015 due to the reported construction of a new school in close vicinity of a local residentially segregated Roma community.

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Judgment of the District Court in Prešov on the illegal education of Roma children in special classes of the primary school in Hermanovce

Added: 17. December 2021

By decision of 24 November 2021, the District Court in Prešov upheld the anti-discrimination lawsuit of three Roma children from the village of Hermanovce (eastern Slovakia), who were illegally educated at a local primary school in special classes for children with mild intellectual disabilities. According to the court, the defendant Private Center for Special Pedagogical Counseling in Prešov, which performed psychological diagnostics of children, as well as the primary school in Hermanovce, discriminated against them on the ground of their ethnicity. The first instance court ordered the defendants to apologize to the discriminated children and to award each of them financial compensation of 5,000 euros.

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Judgment of the European Court in a case M.B. and others v. Slovakia

Added: 2. April 2021

The European Court of Human Rights by its judgment in the case of M.B. and Others v. Slovakia of 1 April 2021 ruled that Slovakia had violated the right of three Roma boys to an effective investigation into the police violence they objected. In so doing, they violated the procedural component of a right to protection against inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment under Article 3 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.

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