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Wednesday, May 12, 2021

EU states cooperating informally to deny refugees asylum rights – report

Beatings, thefts and dog attacks are just some of the border police practices migrants say they face when pushed back from Europe’s frontiers Informal cooperation between states has prevented thousands of women, men and children from seeking protection in Europe this year, according to a report released by nine human rights organisations. The Protecting Rights at Borders (Prab) initiative has recorded 2,162 cases of “pushbacks” at different borders in Italy, Greece, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, North Macedonia and Hungary carried out on the basis of bilateral agreements between countries, which resulted in them circumventing their responsibilities and pushing unwanted groups back outside the EU. Continue reading...


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