Roma in the Criminal Justice System

Today we will be talking about racism, in an area where we should expect it the least, in the justice system. A summary report from the ERRC and Fair Trials on Roma and the criminal justice system in Czech Republic, Slovakia, North Macedonia, and Serbia has recently been published. It casts light on antigypsyism in the police, courts, and prison system. In this episode our guests are: Krassimir Kanev from the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee, Ioana Barbulescu, representing criminal justice watchdog Fair Trials, and Aleksandra Dubova chair of the Forum for Human Rights. In the second half of the episode we will be looking closer at the racism in the criminal justice system and the power of litigation, with our fourth guest, Dimitrina Petrova, co-founder of the Equal Rights Trust and former chair of the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Roma in the Criminal Justice System is an episode from The Romani Tea Room by Sophie Datishvili.

This episode is 38:05 long.

This episode was published on Mar 9, 2022.

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