http://www.romea.cz/english/index.php?id=servis/z_en_2004_0195
The British judiciary has decided that during immigration checks at Prague's Ruzyne airport the British government exposed Romanies from the Czech Republic who intended to travel to Britain to racial discrimination, according to the conclusion by the House of Lords judicial committee.
The checks were carried out at the Prague Ruzyne airport from July 2001 by British immigration officials who sought to lower the number of asylum seekers in Britain, especially applicants from the ranks of Czech Romanies.
In 2002, the British human rights organisation Liberty lodged a complaint against the checks on behalf of six anonymous complainers and the European Centre for Roma Rights. A first instance court has rejected the complaint. An appeals court, however, arrived at the conclusion that the regulations practically certainly discriminated against Romanies, but it described the discrimination as justifiable because at that time there was a higher probability in the case of Romanies that they would ask for asylum in Britain than in the case of other persons.
