Just a week ahead of the Commission's progress report on Romanian and Bulgarian EU membership, Amnesty International has pointed to wide-spread police brutality, mistreatment of Roma populations and of the mentally ill in the two candidate states.
The briefing papers, released on Tuesday (19 October), reports on racially motivated violence against the Roma population in both countries, by skinhead groups and other individuals, but also by law enforcement authorities.
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