The 94-page report, “‘Like We Were Just Animals’: Pushbacks of People Seeking Protection from Croatia to Bosnia and Herzegovina,” finds that Croatian authorities engage in pushbacks, including of unaccompanied children and families with young children. The practice is ongoing despite official denials, purported monitoring efforts, and repeated – and unfulfilled – commitments to respect the right to seek asylum and other human rights norms. Border police frequently steal or destroy phones, money, identity documents, and other personal property, and often subject children and adults to humiliating and degrading treatment, sometimes in ways that are explicitly racist.
The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights has confirmed the verdict according to which Croatia violated the right to life of Madina Hussiny, a six-year-old Afghan girl
As hundreds took to the streets in Athens and Istanbul over the weekend to protest the Greek s government s role in the death of 19 refugees, the controversial pushback policy used across Europe i.