Surveillance, random ID checks, showing documents to access services, and all that nasty shit that corrodes rights and privacy. Introducing these controls within the EU is legal only on a temporary basis and in so-called ‘exceptional’ situations, and states have to notify the European Commission of their reasons.
He said, “They released dogs on him but luckily the dogs had only bitten clothing and not skin.” T. later showed me where they’d smacked him on the arm with a baton. The Croatian police stole his money and his phone.
On April 10th the European Parliament will take the proposed Migration and Asylum Pact to a plenary vote.
On the early morning of Sunday the 19th, at 6 am, the eviction happened from the Sombor Transition Center.
Everyone migrates in search of something better. Making the decision to migrate often means previously planning to flee.
Some fundamental topics of today’s society: the role of the passport in the surreal bureaucratic game of establishing a person’s right to exist.
Testimony from an Afghan man who suffered up to ten push-backs from Bulgaria to Türkiye.
This political activist had to leave his country. When he reached Europe, he faced again jail, for the simple fact of being a migrant. This is his personal story.
A group of six people from Pakistan and Bangladesh were arrested by the Croatian police and taken to the nearest police station where they were detained for three days before being pushed back to Serbia.
Beatings in police station bathrooms, including minors, and threats of imprisonment for six months to one year in exchange for providing fingerprints, are some of the practices against people on the move in Bulgaria.
