News of a secret police register in Sweden containing the names of 4,000 people, most of them Roma, has tarnished the Swedish reputation for tolerance.

The evacuation of a squalid Roma camp this week has forced Sweden to come to terms with a troubling new reality: For the first time in generations, the egalitarian welfare nation is witnessing ...

A Travelling History” is a fascinating look at a marginalized and misunderstood group of people who have encountered ...

After he got married he decided with his wife to move to Sweden. He says that in Sweden Roma people are quite well integrated into society. However, some matters are dealt with by the community, ...

The Roma (or gypsy) community of Sweden are reeling over revelations that the national police force kept a secret file with information on nearly 5,000 Roma, including 1,000 children, many of whom ...

A civil rights group in Sweden is suing the state on behalf of 11 people whose details were put on an illegal police register, claiming the only reason they were added was because of their ethnicity.

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish police have established a database of Roma, the force said on Monday, confirming a newspaper report that a government minister condemned as "unethical, unacceptable ...

People demonstrating in Malmö, Sweden, in 2013 against the police's Roma register. Photo: Erika Oldberg/TT. A civil rights organization suing the Swedish state on behalf of 11 Roma Swedes has welcomed ...

A White Paper on the abuses suffered by Roma people in Sweden during the 1900s will be followed up by a commission on ongoing anti-gypsyism, the Swedish government decided on Wednesday (26 March).