The number of race-hate crimes, committed...
and dark-skinned immigrants or guest workers remained widespread."A number of studies released in March by independent NGOs and advocacy groups... found widespread problems of unpaid laborers with no legal recourse," the report says.
The authors of the document stress that law enforcement on both the local and federal level "continued to target members of ethnic minorities disproportionately" throughout 2009. In addition, police often refuses to register crimes that were committed against migrants.
"Police reportedly beat, harassed, and demanded bribes from, persons with dark skin or who appeared to be from the Caucasus region, Central Asia, or Africa. In Moscow authorities continued to subject dark-skinned persons to far more frequent document checks than others and frequently detained or imposed illegally large penalties on them for lacking documents," the document says.
WASHINGTON, March 12 (RIA Novosti)
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