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A police check in Bucharest (Photo: EPA-EFE/Robert Ghement)

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Pandemic: Roma at receiving end of racist policing

A police check in Bucharest (Photo: EPA-EFE/Robert Ghement)

More and more cases of police brutality against Roma are surfacing amidst quarantines, lockdowns and emergency measures across central and eastern Europe.

The latest incident involved an attack by a police officer on five small Romani children in Slovakia last month.

The kids, four girls and a boy, aged between seven and eleven, from the

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