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Spain: Neighbourhood groups' report on racist identity checks in Madrid

01 August 2011

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Spain: Neighbourhood groups' report on racist identity checks in Madrid:

The Brigadas Vecinales de Observación de Derechos Humanos (BVODH, Neighbourhood Brigades to observe human rights compliance) is a coalition involving citizens in Madrid who have taken up the task of mounting a response to "discriminatory social control policies" in their neighbourhoods which they describe as "racist, xenophobic and classist", in particular as regards identity checks in the streets enacted by the police. This report, "Informe sobre los controles de identidad racistas en Madrid (2010/2011)", is the product of their monitoring work on discriminatory identity checks between 10 December 2009 (a total of 445,000 people were identified by officers in Madrid in the whole of 2009) and 10 May 2011. See: Informe sobre los controles de identidad racistas en Madrid (2010/2011), 29.7.2011 (Spanish, pdf)

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