An appeals court ruled Wednesday that a Czech hospital does not have to pay compensation to a Gypsy woman it sterilized 11 years ago without her consent.
The League for Human Rights sharply criticized the ruling and said it would appeal it to the Supreme Court. The ruling is seen as important because it overturned the first court judgment in the Czech Republic that had granted a Gypsy woman compensation from a hospital for such an operation.
Human rights groups believe hundreds of women in the republic's Gypsy minority of about 250,000 people have been sterilized against their will, a practice that dates back to communist times and only ended recently, …
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