Screening of Roma in Prague ruled unlawful

The UK House of Lords ruled that screening arrangements established by the UK at Prague Airport in an effort to deal with the flow of asylum seekers were 'inherently and systematically discriminatory' because one ethnic group, east European Roma gypsies, were treated less favourably on racial grounds.

BBC News: UK 'discriminated against Roma', 9.12.04 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4081473.stm

Liberty: Press Releases: Law Lords rule that Roma exclusion policy discriminatory, 9.12.04 http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/press/press-releases-2004/roma-discrimination-case.shtml

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