| | Roma Rights / No. 2, 1999 -- snapshots from around Europe -- Hungarian courts rule against discrimination and abuse of ... |
 | | The Roma Press Center reported that on April 22, the second instance County Court of Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in central Hungary, had handed down decision in the case of discrimination against Romani children at the Ferenc Pethe school in Tiszvasvári in eastern Hungary. |
 | | The court upheld the decision of the first instance court in Nyíregyháza, which had ruled that the local government must pay compensation of 100,000 Hungarian forints (approximately 400 euros) per child in compensation for illegal discrimination on the basis of ethnicity. |
 | | In other news of court cases involving Roma in Hungary, on May 5 the Court of Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county found the municipality of Karcag guilty of damaging activities in administration, and ruled that it will have to pay damages of up to 1,000,000 Hungarian forints (approximately 4000 euros) to the claimants. |
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