zaterdag 7 maart 2015

Roma people win court battle over Italian legal text linking gypsies to crime

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Court in Rome orders legal textbook to be withdrawn over discriminatory explanation of Italian legal code defining ‘suspect goods’ as ones sold by gypsies.An Italian publishing company that printed a text suggesting “gypsies” were criminals has been found guilty of discrimination by a court in Rome, marking a victory for activists who say that biases against the Roma people are widespread in Italy.There are more than 100,000 Roma in Italy and roughly 8,000 of them live in squalid conditions on the outskirts of Rome in authorised camps that have been compared to segregated ghettoes.

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