EU Should Stop Illegal Migrant Pushbacks at its Borders

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Migrants show broken phones in the village of Horgos, Serbia, January 28, 2020. © 2020 Darko Vojinovic/AP Photo A new report, including disturbing video and audio evidence, shows security forces along European Union borders detaining migrants and asylum seekers at secret locations before forcing them back across borders. The report, released by collaborative journalism outfit Lighthouse Reports, primarily documented abuses occurring in Bulgaria, Hungary, and Croatia. Since 2014, Human Rights Watch and others have documented violence and abuse against migrants and asylum…

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