Pub cleared for rejecting ’Asian looking’ women - The Local - m.thelocal.se
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The owners of Harry’s bar in Växjö, as well as six bouncers, had been charged with illegal #discrimination after refusing to allow several Asian looking women to enter the establishment in 2012.
“My daughter and I were treated like prostitutes,” 44-year-old Merlita Malmström, one of the women involved in the case, told the Aftonbladet newspaper.
While prosecutors argued that repeatedly denying entry to the women due to their appearance was a clear case of discrmination, the Växjö District Court had a different opinion.
In a decision issued earlier this week, the court ruled Harry’s owners had a “legitimate reason” to stop to women in their efforts to curb suspected #prostitution.
Police had information indicating that Asian women in the area were involved in prostitution, the court explained. Thus, denying the women entry had nothing to do with their appearance, but rather with suspicions of prostitution.