The government’s response to COVID-19 raised human rights concerns including in relation to policing, the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and the right to education. Roma continued to experience systemic discrimination, and some faced excessive use of force and ill-treatment by police. The...

On 4 May, the High Court of Cassation and Justice in Romania will make a final decision on the extradition to Russia of a Chechen woman, Amina Gerikhanova. In 2016, she left Chechnya for Ukraine taking her toddler son to flee from political persecution. They lived in Ukraine until early March 2022,...

Eight Roma families, are at risk of forced eviction in Eforie, in south-east Romania by 30 April. The authorities must put in place key international human rights safeguards and ensure that no one is forcibly evicted.

About 100 Roma, half of them children, were forcibly evicted by local authorities in the town of Eforie Sud in south-east Romania on 27 September. To date the affected families, including pregnant women and people with medical conditions, remain homeless.

Romani families in the Craica settlement in the town of Baia Mare, Romania, are at imminent risk of a new forced eviction. On 2 August, approximately 30 families reportedly received orders asking them to leave their houses by 5 August. Around 15 houses were demolished on 5 August, and the remaining...

Between 11 and 13 May, 70 Romani families were moved from their homes in the informal settlement of Craica in Baia Mare, northwestern Romania, to an inadequate and unsafe old office building. Remaining Romani residents are being pressured to move into similar buildings, through threats and...

Around two thousand Roma are facing imminent forced eviction in Baia Mare, north-western Romania. Seventy families are reported to have agreed to being relocated while the remaining residents risk being made homeless. In addition, those inhabitants without identity documents registered in Baia Mare...

Following protests by human rights organizations and foreign embassies the planned forced eviction of Roma from Baia Mare, Romania on 5 September 2011 appears to have been put on hold.

Hundreds of people, mainly of Roma origin, are facing forced eviction in the next week by local authorities in Baia Mare, north-western Romania. If inhabitants of informal settlements do not have identity documents registered in Baia Mare, they are likely to be evicted and have their homes...

On 17 December 2010, the authorities of Cluj, in north-western Romania, forcibly evicted a Roma community. Some of the families have been moved to housing units that do not meet the criteria of adequate housing, while others are homeless. According to local NGOs and testimonies from local Roma,...

The authorities in Cluj, a city in north-western Romania, are preparing to carry out the forced eviction of Roma communities living in Coastei and Cantonului streets by the end of December. Amnesty International is concerned that reportedly houses will be demolished, and some families will be moved...

On 20 February, an Urgent Action was issued about Poiana Mare psychiatric hospital in which 17 people had died since the beginning of the year. The publicity in the Romanian media given to this action was extensive and it put the pressure on the Romanian authorities. Our letter-writing has played a...

Seventeen patients at a psychiatric hospital in southern Romania have reportedly died of malnutrition and hypothermia since the start of this year, and the remaining 440 patients are in grave danger unless the Romanian government immediately provide the hospital with adequate food, heating fuel and...