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Norway: new group to fight discrimination

01 January 1994

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A new organisation, OMOD, has been formed to campaign against the discriminatory policies of the Norwegian police and customs services. One of the founders of the group is Charles-Harris, a black man who lives in Sweden. He was born in Sweden and lives in Norway. His partner lives in Sweden, and he now commutes between the two countries. Charles-Harris told a court that he had been stopped 17 out of the 19 times he had crossed the Swedish-Norwegian borders, and that on seven occasions he had been stripped naked. The police argued that "coloured" people were regularly stopped because most people who came to Norway illegally were "coloured". Customs officers said most drugs came from countries inhabited by "coloured" people.

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