Amnesty International Urges the Belgrade Authorities to Stop Forcibly Evicting Roma Families
(Washington, D.C.) --Amnesty International has urged the Belgrade authorities to stop forced evictions after Roma families, including 17 children and one pregnant woman, were evicted from their homes in the city. “These people are being forcibly evicted from their homes for the second time in less than 10 years and now they have nowhere to go,” said David Diaz-Jogeix, deputy director of Amnesty International’s Europe and Central Asia program.The 36 people were forcibly evicted from their houses at 15 Vojvodjanska Street, where most of them had been living since 2003 after being