In a judgment delivered on Thursday 30 March, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) condemned Hungary for discrimination and obstructing the right to education of a Roma child.
The child went to a primary school attended almost exclusively by Roma and asked to be transferred to a school in the neighbouring town, which was only a five-minute ride away by public transport and where he felt the quality of education was better.
He was refused on the grounds that he did not live in the...