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Uranija Pirovska: "Roma convicts in prisons are discriminated against just like in the state system"

 

Uranija Pirovska, Executive Director of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in the Republic of Macedonia, can be said to be well informed about the situation in the Macedonian prisons as well as to shock the human rights of the convicts in those institutions.

 

As a general problem, Pirovska mentions the reduction of overcrowding in prisons, openness and free access to the facilities of penitentiaries.

As for corruption and bribery, the interlocutor himself says that he is well acquainted with the phenomenon, and according to the statements of the convicts themselves, bribery and corruption are present in these institutions, but none of them has filed such a report so far, but only from personal statements and experiences.

 

In that context, the convicts from the Roma community, who by the way are very often the target of discrimination and pressure from both the convicts themselves and the officials, were not changed.

 

Among other things, Pirovska notes: "Roma convicts in prisons are discriminated against in the same way as in the state system."

convicts must not be left on the margins of society. "Political will is needed to do more for this population," she said, adding that serious, timely and appropriate investigation of any indication of inhumane treatment, inhuman treatment and torture was needed;

 

According to the report, she said, overcrowding and recidivism are mostly due to the fact that convicts are neither able to work nor attend education. Pirovska clarifies that the accommodation of the prisoners is not taken into account, ie that accommodation is needed according to the criminal acts.

 

"Overcrowding could happen to us for the simple reason that we are still witnessing that courts rarely decide to apply alternative measures. We have been noticing that for the last eight years, "Pirovska said.

Hungary: In the Hungarian village of Pusta Hence, a deliberately excavated road leading to the Roma from that village

According to the statements of the member of the IRU from Hungary, Diana Goman, in the locality of Pusta Hence. a village in southwestern Hungary, which has just over 1,300 inhabitants, the village itself is inhabited by members of the Roma community.

 

There is a local road in the village that is used by the Roma themselves, but according to them, these days that road has been excavated and destroyed. According to them, this was done intentionally by the villagers, only with the desire to cut off the Roma community from the rest of the village.

Allegedly, due to the pandemic with COVID 19, they thus wanted to distance themselves from the Roma community, so as not to become infected.

 

On the other hand, this move, according to the Roma from this village, showed that in fact the Hungarians themselves want to cause ethnic tensions, and openly show that the Roma are not welcome in their environment.

 

How the municipal authorities will react to this incident is still unknown and whether anyone will be responsible for this act. The fact is that this local road is the only road that can be used by vehicles, including ambulances, which need unimpeded access to the site during this pandemic. At the same time, the entry of fire engines and others is prevented.

 

 

Link:https://www.facebook.com/robert.balogh.71868964/videos/pcb.238511527381988/238510020715472/?type=3&theater

Serbia: Attack on Roma by Mladenovac

Nenad Pajic from Mladenovac says his family was exposed to insults and insults on a national basis on Tuesday (May 12th) by two boys unknown to them.

 

In fact, in the yard in front of their apartment building came two unknown boys, about thirty years old, who first attacked his neighbor.

 

- They stood in front of our building and started shouting "Gypsy Gypsies" and shouted abusive words. They started beating her dog, and when she asked them what was the reason for the attack, they replied to the old woman: "We, the gypsies, must exterminate you, you are a villain."

 At the time, Nenad asked the boys to stop such behavior, but they also reiterated that all Roma should be exterminated.

They also wanted to hit him.

 

But at that moment, my mother and sister prevented a major incident because Nenad was suffering from heart disease and had epilepsy, high blood pressure and brain cysts.

It could easily have happened if he had been accidentally stabbed to death.

 

"They were violent and cursing, and one note that because of us Roma and President Vucic, he was imprisoned for 7 years," said Nenad Pajic.

Then his mother Daniela secretly called the police, who arrived very quickly and the boys were arrested.

 

Link: https://www.kurir.rs/vesti/drustvo/3463649/napadnuti-romi-u-mladenovcu-napadaci-psovali-predsednika-vucica-najstrasnije-pretili-i-nasrnuli-na-romsku-porodicu?fbclid=IwAR0yxhLuSuV-SdPRMWaG0TZI1KKjGfMSLUs9pYTHFfXoPy1-NRR52Px_flc

Incident in Shutka, outraged citizens protest and say: "Police patrol ran over a pedestrian and did not stop"

On Friday afternoon, a group of over 500-600 residents of Suto Orizari gathered on Jovan Hadzishishkov Street in protest and revolt.

The reason for the revolt, according to them, is that just before 19:00, a vehicle of the police patrol passing through that street, caused a traffic accident and one person was injured. According to eyewitnesses, the vehicle did not stop and continued on its way.

The injured person, with the help of his close relatives, was taken to the city hospital "St. Naum Ohridski" in Skopje. But then there was an incident where, according to his relatives, the allegedly injured after the medical treatment was taken out of the back of the hospital, and they accuse that police officers used physical force and was taken to a police station.

Due to that, there was a great revolt among the gathered citizens, who reacted to that brutality, and at the same time they did not have any information where the injured person was taken.

According to unofficial statements of his loved ones, he was mistreated and beaten and taken to the Centar police station.

So far, there is no feedback from the police, because the spokespersons of the Ministry of Interior and the SIA Skopje did not answer the phone calls of the editorial office of Roma Times.

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