Human beings in cages, degraded and denied asylum.
This violates everything the EU stands for. Such dark sites exist because the Commission and member states don't shed light on them. Protecting rights at EU borders is a collective responsibility. Now, it's our collective shame.
RT @maybulman: NEW: European border forces are using secret facilities to systematically detain asylum seekers before illegally deporting them
@LHreports and partners can today reveal a n…
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Tineke_Strik/status/1600858099396534274
This brutality is carried out in plain sight of @Frontex officers. Clearly, the agency still fails to uphold its fundamental rights duties, thereby becoming complicit. Frontex MUST take human rights as seriously as border control. If they can't, they're obliged to withdraw.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Tineke_Strik/status/1600858157965873152
@Frontex EU taxpayer money is being used to carry out these illegal pushbacks. This is a clear violation of EU funding rules. The EU Commission needs to explain how this could happen and must exercise proper scrutiny over its 100s of millions of border and migration management funding.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Tineke_Strik/status/1600858224328167424