Danish Supreme Court to rule on eviction of "non-western" residents

Denmark's Supreme Court is expected to decide whether the state's use of a "non-western" label for residents is subject to racial discrimination law, The Guardian reports. The case comes from residents evicted from Nøjsomhed-Sydvej, a housing complex in Helsingør, a city north of Copenhagen.

The Guardian says the ruling could have wide effects for other people who have been forced from their homes under the law. It was previously known as the "ghetto law". The government now calls the affected neighbourhoods "parallel societies".

According to The Guardian, the government claims the removal of the former residents has nothing to do with their ethnicity.

Al Jazeera also reports that evicted families have taken the law to the Supreme Court. It describes the law as controversial.