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CROATIAN police officers are regularly pushing people back across its border with Bosnia and Herzegovina without assessing their asylum requests, Human Rights Watch said today.
In a 94-page report released today, Human Rights Watch accused the Croatian authorities of continuing to illegally force people — including unaccompanied children and families with young children — over the border despite official denials and repeated commitments to respect human rights laws.
The report says the border police have frequently stolen or destroyed people’s phones, money, identity documents, and other personal property, and often subject others (including children) to humiliating and degrading treatment.
A recent Immigration Summit heard from Lord Alf Dubs, who fled the Nazis to Britain as a child. JAYDEE SEAFORTH reports on his message that we need to increase public empathy with desperate people seeking asylum
