MINELRES: ERRC: Romanian Government Urged to Respect European Court Judgments
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Mon Oct 13 22:14:22 2008
Original sender: European Roma Rights Centre <[email protected]>
ERRC Action in Support of Romanian Activist�s Protest against Government
Inaction
Budapest, Bucharest, 6 October 2008: Today, the European Roma Rights
Centre (ERRC) sent a letter of concern to Romanian authorities, drawing
attention to the hunger strike of human rights activist Istvan Haller
and calling on the government to take measures to monitor and safeguard
Mr Haller�s health.
On 2 October 2008, Mr Haller declared a hunger strike over the
persistent failure of the Romanian Government to address the serious
rights violations caused by three anti-Romani pogroms in the early 1990s
in Hadareni, Plaiesi de Jos and Casinul Nou, Romania. Following European
Court of Human Rights judgments in these cases, the Romanian government
undertook to implement community development projects that included the
setting up of infrastructure, as well as anti-discrimination,
educational and other social measures. To this day however, the
Government has failed to fulfil its legal obligations.
In its letter, sent to Romanian President Mr Traian Basescu, Minister of
Foreign Affairs Mr Lazar Comanescu and Mr Gruia Bumbu, Head of the
National Agency for Roma, the ERRC called for the implementation of
community development programmes in the noted Romanian Romani
communities, and announced its intention to file a brief on the
implementation of the judgments with the Council of Europe�s Committee
of Ministers in view of its forthcoming Human Rights Meeting on 2-4
December 2008.
The full text of the ERRC�s letter is available on the Internet at: ERRC
Letter Hadareni-Haller.
For further information, contact Theodoros Alexandridis, ERRC Staff
Attorney, [email protected].
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