Wednesday, 27 January 2021, 6:13 am
We warmly commend the decision of the Court of Rome,
deeming the pushbacks of asylum seekers and migrants on the
Italian-Slovenian border illegal; condemning the Italian
Ministry of the Interior and acknowledging the inhuman and
degrading treatment migrants are subjected to along the
Balkan Route; Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said in a
statement today. We further urge the EU Commission to step
in to put an end to Italy’s informal readmissions and
illegal push backs in the Balkan Route.
On 18 January
2021, with a
13-page verdict the Judge Silvia Albano of the Court of
Rome declared the illegality of informal readmissions of