LJUBLJANA, June 4 (Hina) - In Slovenia there are cases of police violence with characteristics of ethnic discrimination, the Helsinki Monitor of Slovenia (HMS) asserts. Representatives of this society for the human rights protection,
which has focused its attention on the state bodies' treatment of non-Slovenes for a few years, on Monday held a news conference to inform about recent cases of police violence against workers who came from other republics of the former Yugoslavia (SFRY). HMS President, Neva Miklavcic Predan, was quoted by the Slovene news agency (STA) as saying that those were cases of some kind of "ethnic cleansing", as those workers had lived in Slovenia before the break up of the former federation (ex-SFRY) but "their (Slovenian) citizenship was annulled illegally." The HMS is also unsatisfied with the official report of police about the police treatment of eight workers
LJUBLJANA, June 4 (Hina) - In Slovenia there are cases of police
violence with characteristics of ethnic discrimination, the
Helsinki Monitor of Slovenia (HMS) asserts.
Representatives of this society for the human rights protection,
which has focused its attention on the state bodies' treatment of
non-Slovenes for a few years, on Monday held a news conference to
inform about recent cases of police violence against workers who
came from other republics of the former Yugoslavia (SFRY).
HMS President, Neva Miklavcic Predan, was quoted by the Slovene
news agency (STA) as saying that those were cases of some kind of
"ethnic cleansing", as those workers had lived in Slovenia before
the break up of the former federation (ex-SFRY) but "their
(Slovenian) citizenship was annulled illegally."
The HMS is also unsatisfied with the official report of police about
the police treatment of eight workers from Bosnia-Herzegovina in
March this year, and the society is going to inform the
international public of the incident which presented the violation
of the European human rights convention, Miklavcic Predan said.
"On 15 March, about 50 policemen raided into the house of Sukrija
Becic in the Rakova Jelsa residential area in Ljubljana, pulled the
workers who were there from their beds, tied their hands and forced
them to lie on the floor for two hours, and even intimidated them,"
she told the news conference.
According to her, such cases of police violence are not rare, and
this implies that "administrative ethnic cleansing is continuing
with police terror," she claimed.
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