ISSUE NO. 1412
26 JULY - 1 AUGUST 2012
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Spain pays price for lack of investigation
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being repeatedly attacked by two police officers in Palma de Mallorca. The European Court of Human Rights intervened when Woman’s Link
Worldwide brought Beauty Solomon’s case to their attention more than three years after the incidents occurred. Soloman, a Nigerian woman aged 35, was working as a prostitute in Palma in July 2005 when two National Police officers physically attacked and insulted her on three different occasions within 10 days. Solomon reported the attacks and accused the officers of targeting her for her ethnicity. The Spanish courts requested no more investigation than reports by the two officers’ superiors. Spain will have to pay a compensation of €30,000 to Beauty Solomon for violence and discrimination according to the sentence PERFORMING LIVE: Jessie J at BCM Square in Magalluf. issued by the Strasbourg Court that reads: “The Spanish courts failed to seriously and effectively investigate the reports made by Beauty Soloman.” The court also decided JESSIE J, who has been described Mallorca Rocks Hotel, Axwell from that Spain “violated the as having a ‘powerhouse of a Swedish House Mafia got an right for individuals to be voice’, set many young hearts ecstatic welcome from his fans. free of degrading and fluttering on Tuesday night when Next up is Tinie Tempah at BCM inhuman treatment and she performed at Mallorca Live in on Sunday, then Chase and Status discrimination” as promised BCM Square in Magalluf. at Mallorca Rocks next Tuesday in the European Convention Meanwhile, over the road at night. of Human Rights. This case prompted Women’s Link Worldwide and SOS-Racismo to report more than 600 similar cases of discrimination in Spain in 2005 alone; 43 involved police officers, according to the organisations. PHOTO CREDIT – PHOENIX MEDIA MALLORCA
By Amanda Surber THE Spanish Government has been fined for their lack of investigation after a Nigerian woman reported
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