{"id":35767,"date":"2013-05-23T11:27:45","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T18:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=35767"},"modified":"2013-05-23T11:27:45","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T18:27:45","slug":"euobserver-amnesty-eu-states-guilty-of-racism-homophobia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/05\/23\/euobserver-amnesty-eu-states-guilty-of-racism-homophobia\/","title":{"rendered":"EUobserver: Amnesty: EU states guilty of racism, homophobia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS &#8211; Several EU countries abuse the rights of migrants and ethnic minorities, while others are not doing enough to combat homophobia, Amnesty International has said.<\/p>\n<p>The British-based NGO named 24 EU states in its annual report on rights abusers out on Thursday (23 May).<\/p>\n<p>Rough treatment of refugees from Africa and Asia, harsh enforcement of counter-terrorism laws against Muslims and naked racism against Roma people emerged as systematic problems in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Despite previous promises to the European Commission, France in the first quarter of last year evicted 9,040 Roma people, with local authorities in many cases &#8220;flouting&#8221; international safeguards against the practice.<\/p>\n<p>French police ignored new rules against ethnic profiling on ID checks.<\/p>\n<p>The names of men who died in French police custody in cases which pre-date 2012 also tell a tale of violence against people of African, Asian or Middle Eastern origin: Abou Bakari Tandia; Ali Ziri; Mahamadou Marega; Mohamed Boukrourou; Abdelhakim Ajimi; and Lamine Dieng.<\/p>\n<p>Germany was taken to task for refusing to grant refugee rights for 195 people from Tunisia and 105 people from Iraq. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/euobserver.com\/justice\/120220\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for the full story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS &#8211; Several EU countries abuse the rights of migrants and ethnic minorities, while others are not doing enough to combat homophobia, Amnesty International has said. The British-based NGO named 24 EU states in its annual report on rights abusers out on Thursday (23 May). Rough treatment of refugees from Africa and Asia, harsh enforcement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}