| Author (Corporate) | Amnesty International |
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| Publisher | Amnesty International |
| Publication Date | December 2015 |
| Content Type | Report |
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The European Union (EU) was in danger of being complicit in serious human rights violations against refugees and asylum-seekers, said Amnesty International, as it published in December 2015 damning evidence that the Turkish authorities had been unlawfully apprehending, detaining and pressuring refugees and asylum-seekers to return to war zones. The report Europe’s Gatekeeper documented how, since September 2015, in parallel with EU-Turkey migration talks, the Turkish authorities had rounded up and herded scores – possibly hundreds – of refugees and asylum-seekers onto buses and transported them more than 1,000 kilometres to isolated detention centres where they had been held incommunicado. Some report being shackled for days on end, beaten and forcibly transported back to the countries they had fled. |
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| Source Link | https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/eur44/3022/2015/en/ |
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| Subject Categories | Justice and Home Affairs |
| Countries / Regions | Europe, Turkey |
