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Report slams 'widespread' use of ethnic profiling in Europe

Ethnic and religious profiling is still widespread in Europe, although it is both damaging and ineffective, a report released on Tuesday (26 May) argues.

"Ethnic profiling" – a term describing the use of ethnic and religious criteria in law enforcement and investigative decisions about who may have committed a crime – has "intensified in recent years in Europe," according to a study by the Open Society Justice Initiative, a programme of the Open Society foundation.

The practice h...

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