NORTH MACEDONIA’S SERIOUS PROBLEM WITH POLICE BRUTALITY AGAINST ROMA

Posted on August 19, 2022 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged 1312, Andiras Redjepov, Bekim Demir, court, ERRC, featured, Jusinov Erdal, long read, macedonia, Nevzat Jasharov, police, politics, racism, Roma, sentence, Skopje, Stanislav Tomas, Sutkie Mustafova, torture, Trajan Bekirov, trial.

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by Jonathan Lee

CW: violence, police brutality

On Saturday 3^rd July 2021, Romani man Nevzat Jasharov (pictured above) marched through the streets of Skopje, North Macedonia with his fellow Romani citizens against racialised police brutality. The protest was in response to the death of a Czech Romani man, Stanislav Tomas, who died after police intervention in the Czech town of Teplice. Video footage of the incident showed a police officer kneeling on the back of Stanislav’s neck; scenes disturbingly reminiscent of the police killing of Black American George Floyd in June 2020.

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PRISONS BECOMING A DEATH-SENTENCE FOR ROMA

Posted on May 18, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged AGFD, Andrias Redjepov, Asociación Gitanas Feministas por la Diversidad, Asturias-Villabona Penitentiary Center, authority, Bekim Demir, discrimination, ERRC, ethnic minority, ethnic profiling, ethnic slurs, Europe, European Roma Rights Centre, featured, Gonzalo Montoya, healthcare, Idrizovo Prison, inequality, International Roma Day, isolation, Jusinov Erdal, Manuel Fernandez, mental health, Murcia Regional Government, overdose, prison, Protocol for Suicide Prevention in Prison, racism, Roma, Romani, Romani Feminism NGO, Shtip prison, Skopje, spain, suicide prevention, targeting, torture.

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by Jonathan Lee

Content warning: article contains strong language, ethnic slurs, and graphic descriptions of death, suicide, prison environments and torture.

On April 9th 2018, the day after International Roma Day, a crowd gathered outside the doors of the Murcia Regional Government building in Alicante, Spain. They were not there to celebrate, but to mourn and demonstrate about the unexplained death of twenty-eight-year-old Romani man, Manuel Fernández, on 22nd October 2017. His case is one of many unexplained deaths of Roma in prison.Continue Reading

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