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SWEDEN: ROMA POLICE REGISTER: Over one thousand children illegally registered

23 September 2013

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"• Swedish police have illegally registered Romanis, in a document containing 4.029 names from all over the country. The file is used in police work and can be accessed by a large number of employees.
• Over one thousand of the people in the document are minors. 52 of the names in the file belong to two year old children. They are on the list for one reason only: they were born into Romani families.
• It is not a record of criminal activity. Many of the adults listed have never been convicted of any crime. The document identifies family ties – it is a registry based on biology."

See the full text: Over one thousand children illegally registered (DN.se, pdf)

See also: Police under fire for monitoring Romanis (Expressen.se, pdf) and Swedish police confirm illegal registry of Roma (The Local, link): "Police in Sweden have collected information on thousands of Roma, many of whom have never committed any crimes and including 1,000 children, in a database that likely breaks several laws, according to a Swedish media report."

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