VRACHESH, Bulgaria, Jan 29 (Reuters) - When Bulgarian doctor Irena Marinova arrived in an ambulance at the home of a pregnant Roma woman in November, she says she was beaten up by two men who accused ...

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SOFIA, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Recent riots in the capital by Bulgaria's Roma gypsies were the result of discrimination, a human rights group said on Thursday, but it played down the prospect of localised ...

KYUSTENDIL, Bulgaria -- To beat the heat, Arso Ganev recently took his family to a local pool in their hometown of Kyustendil on the western fringes of Bulgaria. Arriving late in the afternoon at a ...

Authorities started flattening illegally-built Roma homes in a Sofia neighbourhood despite a European Court of Human Rights ruling, which said demolition should not proceed until a legal challenge is ...

As the calendar turns in Bulgaria, the Roma community celebrates a special occasion that shines with color, music, and tradition - the Roma New Year, or Bango Vasil, observed on January 14. The ...

Standing Rapporteur on Human Rights for the Council of Europe, Gudrun Mosler-Törnström, on Friday denounced the recent demolition of Roma houses in the Zaharna Fabrika area of Bulgaria’s capital, ...

SOFIA and BRUSSELS – More than two months after France started sending them back home, several hundred Bulgarian Roma rallied outside the French embassy in Sofia on Saturday (18 September) to protest ...