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CoE Torture Watchdog Accuses Croatia of Abusing Migrants at Borders

The Council of Europe's anti-torture committee has called on EU external border state Croatia to stop police ill-treatment of migrants and asylum seekers in its borders.

On Friday, its report called on authorities to take "determined action to stop migrants from being ill-treated by police officers and to ensure that cases of alleged ill-treatment are investigated effectively".

Croatia Violated Rights Convention Over Killed Afghan Girl, Court Rules

Rights advocates in Croatia have welcomed a European Court of Human Rights ruling on Thursday, that Croatia broke the European Convention on Human Rights in a case of a six-year-old Afghan child, Madina Hussiny, who was killed on November 21, 2017 when she was hit by a passing train close to the Serbian border.

Croatia’s New Border-Monitoring Mechanism Seen as ‘Toothless’ and ‘Ineffective’

Establishing the Croatian border-monitoring mechanism has turned into a litmus test for the EU in its attempt to build an effective, comprehensive, lasting and humanitarian solution to an increasing number of EU member states, including Greece and Romania as well as Croatia, using pushbacks to halt migration flows.

NGO Charges Croatian Police With ‘Inhumane Treatment of Refugees’

A human rights NGO, the Center for Peace Studies, filed a criminal complaint on Friday to the Croatian State Attorney's Office against "unknown perpetrators" from the police, "based on a reasonable doubt of degrading treatment and torture of 33 people and their violent, illegal expulsion from the territory of the Republic of Croatia to Bosnia and Herzegovina".