Croatian police

A Human Rights Watch report published on Tuesday alleged that Croatian border police have been threatening, beating, insulting and extorting money and valuables from migrants and refugees, and pushing them back into Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Croatia has denied the allegations against the police, according to the report.

Several migrants and refugees were injured when they tried to break through a police cordon on Wednesday that has been preventing them from entering EU member Croatia at the Maljevac border checkpoint in northern Bosnia, local media reported.

Some 400 migrants and refugees gathered on Tuesday on Bosnia and Herzegovina's border with Croatia, with a similar number massing on Serbia's border with Croatia, local media reported.

Croatian police announced that misinformation had been spread that the EU state would open its borders.

Croatian police have discovered 70 illegal migrants in a truck operated by two Bulgarian citizens, reported BGNews.

Croatian police have denied separating a Syrian migrant from his young daughter - after he issued a call for help over the weekend in finding his five-year-old daughter, who he says is now stuck in Croatia while he is back in Bosnia.

He claims the Croatian police separated him from his daughter, which the Croatian police have denied.

No Name Kitchen, NNK, an NGO that helps migrants and refugees in Bosnia and Herzegovina, on Wednesday on social networks accused Croatian police of beating a migrant and documented the claim with a photograph of his injured back.

It said its volunteers were dining on Tuesday in the town of Velika Kladusa when the man arrived and asked them to check his injuries.

Two migrant children suffered gunshot wounds while others were injured from reckless driving when Croatian police fired shots to stop people smugglers driving a van near the village of Donji Srb on the border with Bosnia on Wednesday night.

Croatian police said they have caught an 18-year-old male who sprayed symbols of the World War II fascist Ustasa movement on an anti-fascist monument in the city of Rijeka.

The Administrative Court in the town of Osijek on Wednesday scrapped the custody order for one adult member of the Hosseini family, Croatian Centre for Peace Studies, a human rights NGO, told BIRN.

This sparked hope among human rights campaigners involved in the case that the rest of the family could be released soon.

The Bosnian state court on Thursday declined to detain Elvir Sarac and deport him to Tunisia, where he is wanted on terrorism charges over the killing in 2016 of a Tunisian national who Palestinian group Hamas claim as a member.