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Romania | National Council for Combatting Discrimination (CNCD) | 2017 | Romania / National Council for Combatting Discrimination / casefile no. 325/2017, decision 493/2017 | Ethnic origin, Religion | Migrants | The case refers to a public servant who advances to a managerial position in local administration, despite regularly publishing negative views on ethnic and religious minorities. The petitioner claims that the defendant was appointed as Head of the Office for education, culture, cults, sports and society in Cluj-Napoca City Hall, despite a well-known negative stance on ethnic and religious minorities. Ex: "The refugee crisis is actually an organized Muslim invasion". According to the… | View more |
Romania | National Council for Combatting Discrimination (CNCD) | 2018 | Romania / National Council for Combatting Discrimination / casefile no. 580/2017, decision 75/2018 | Religion | Muslims | The case refers to an incident between a Muslim student and a professor of the Bucharest University, who is in favor of banning headscarves and other religious symbols in state institutions. The professor, who teaches at the Political Studies Faculty, harasses his Muslim students wearing headscarves. He later writes a blog entry describing his views on wearing niqab or hijab in state institutions, and on the need to limit refugees’ rights in order to ensure “fidelity” towards the countries of… | View more |
Romania | National Council for Combatting Discrimination (CNCD) (Consiliul National pentru Combaterea Discriminarii ) | 2020 | Romania / National Council for Combatting Discrimination / casefile no. 850/2019 decision 65/2020 | Religion | Muslims | The plaintiff is serving an 8-year prison sentence. He is Muslim and an Albanian citizen. Although he does not speak Romanian, he had not received the Internal “House Rules” (Regulation) of the Penitentiary in his mother tongue, nor had he receive any other information in a language that he could understand. He filed several petitions with the management of the Penitentiary (written by his colleagues), requesting to be allowed to work, but these were ignored. He also requested food that was… | View more |
Romania | National Council for Combatting Discrimination (CNCD) (Consiliul National pentru Combaterea Discriminarii ) | 2020 | Romania / National Council for Combatting Discrimination / casefile no.567/2019 decision 281/2020 | Religion, Ethnic origin | Muslims | The case is filed by the plaintiff, a Romanian citizen and member of the Local Town Council in Măgura village, who claims that the defendant, also a member of the Local Council, called him “alien” (“venetic”) countless times and asked him, during the Local Council meeting, if he came with a gun on him. Thus, the petitioner shows that the defendant refers directly to his origin and frequently and unjustifiably infringes his right to dignity. | View more |
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