Amnesty International points to the bad social inclusion of Roma

In its annual report on the state of human rights across the world, Amnesty International has criticised Slovakia in particular for continuing discrimination against the Roma people, while also mentioning the anti-migrant statements of Prime Minister Robert Fico. Besides underlining the little progress that has been made towards putting into practice Roma pupils' right to education, the report further mentions the newly-adopted anti-terrorist measures in Slovakia that came into force in January 2017. These extend the maximum period of pre-charge detention for suspicious individuals to 96 hours. Concerning discrimination, the report mentions a case from August 2016 when the owners of a guesthouse in Bratislava refused to accommodate three Turkish students for "security reasons". The same section in the report also includes Fico, who "publicly associates Muslims and refugees with terrorism and uses anti-migrant rhetoric".