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‘New paradigm’: A fractured Portugal votes again, amid corruption cloud

Housing is unaffordable. Migrants are a flashpoint issue. The far right is here to stay. And Portugal is deeply divided.

People walk past an election campaign billboard ahead oif Portugal's general election.

Portugal’s worsening housing crisis hits a diverse neighbourhood

Vulnerable residents, mostly second-generation immigrants, appeal ‘arbitrary’ evictions in a town near Lisbon.

Adriano Kuzingami and his two children on the remains of their home, in Segundo Torrao [Ana Naomi de Sousa/Al Jazeera]

Anti-racist faces trial for defaming neo-Nazi in Portugal

Neo-Nazi activist Mario Machado accuses anti-racism campaigner Mamadou Ba of ‘injuring his honour’ on social media.

Prominent anti-racism activist Mamadou Ba speaks during a protest in Lisbon, Portugal

Portuguese border guards found guilty over death of Ukrainian man

Ihor Homenyuk was detained at a Lisbon airport on March 10 last year and died two days later after being beaten.

A protester pays tribute to Ihor Homenyuk during a World Against Racism demonstration organised by Núcleo Antifascista do Porto (Antifascist Porto) [File: Teresa Nunes/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images]

How Portugal silenced ‘centuries of violence and trauma’

There has been little acknowledgement of Portugal’s role in the transatlantic slave trade – until now.

A map published for Portugal’s 1934 Colonial Exhibition, held in Porto. It is entitled: “Portugal is not a small country” and shows the size of Portugal’s empire at the time as if super-imposed over a map of Europe [Courtesy of Paulo Moreira]

In Portugal, Asian workers pick fruit and live precariously

Agricultural labourers from India, Nepal and Pakistan work in greenhouses during the day and learn Portuguese at night.

Many farm workers who come to Portugal are from Asia and Africa [Ana Naomi de Sousa/Al Jazeera]

Amid COVID-19, Portugal’s ethnic minorities feel heavily policed

Black business owners say they are treated differently to white people, as pandemic highlights structural inequalities.

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Hundreds join protests in Portugal after murder of Black man

Outcry in several cities after 39-year-old father of three was killed at point-blank range in Lisbon.

People take part in an anti-racism protest in honour of Bruno Cande in Lisbon

Portugal police sentenced in landmark trial

One officer jailed, and others handed suspended sentences, after convictions for kidnapping and violence.

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Young black Portuguese men take police brutality case to court

Six alleged victims say officers beat them until they bled and were bruised and forced them into humiliating positions.

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