LN: CzechRep to face lawsuit over Roma kids discrimination

Prague, July 30 (CTK) - The European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) plans to file another lawsuit against the Czech Republic over alleged discrimination against Roma children at schools, daily Lidove noviny (LN) writes Monday.

In 2007, when the Strasbourg-seated European Court of Human Rights supported a similar complaint from several Czech Romanies, the Czech Republic pledged to remove the discrimination. This, the ERRC says, has not happened, LN writes.

"We're initiating another court dispute with the Czech Republic, similar to the previous one that the Czech Republic lost in the international court. Now our ambition is to win the dispute at home, not to take the affair to court abroad. We believe that if the discrimination argument is upheld at home, by our own [Czech] institutions, it would be far more effective that if it were upheld abroad again," Marek Szilvasi, from the ERRC, told LN.

The lawsuit to be filed concerns 28 children from Ostrava, north Moravia, who, the ERRC says, have been unrightfully placed in practical schools designed for kids with learning difficulties, the paper writes.