The vicious game of hounding out asylum-seekers in Europe continues in defiance of international law. Katie Dancey-Downs reports.
Katie Dancey-Downs reports on how refugees are forced from country to country by police in European Union nations in contravention of international human rights law.
Hamid* looks down a human corridor of Croatian police officers who are about to beat him. They will push him from one man to the next, slap him, kick him, take his possessions and burn his sleeping bag. If he’s lucky, he’ll stay upright. If he’s unlucky, he’ll fall and be kicked in the head. He fears for his life.
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