Human rights abuses

They prepared a draft strategy, but the authorities have never adopted it, and the document is now almost forgotten. Former members of the expert group believe this was because of a lack of political will.

Serbia's police led by Interior Minister Aleksandar Vulin have recently conducted several high-profile actions, hotly followed by the media, tackling refugee and migrant smuggling.

On Sunday, police said they discovered an illegal migrant camp near the borders with Hungary and Romania and detained suspected people smugglers.

Turkey strongly criticized on July 2 "unfounded" assumptions in the US State Department's recently published 2021 Trafficking in Persons report. 

Prime Minister Florin Citu points out that Romania is still on the human trafficking watch list, in a report released by the US State Department, adding that "an integrated effort" of all institutions is needed to combat this problem. "The US State Department launched yesterday the 2021 Trafficking in Persons Report.

He pointed out that until a month ago, he did not know of a case where a man marked "S" sexually harassed girls at a research station Petnica.
Asked how he did not know for four years why "S" was fired, he told TV Prva that "Petnica is a type of instantaneous water heater and many people come and go."

An Istanbul court has sentenced a policeman to 16 years and eight months in jail in a case into the death of Berkin Elvan during the Gezi protests in 2013.

The U.N. refugee agency says war, violence, persecution and human rights violations caused nearly 3 million people to flee their homes last year, even though the COVID-19 crisis restricted movement worldwide as countries shut borders and ordered lockdowns.

China on June 14 accused the G7 of "political manipulation" after it criticized Beijing over its human rights record in Xinjiang and Hong Kong.

The alleged incident happened in 2016

The report published on Tuesday by the Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture, CPT, based on a visit to the country in December 2019, raises concerns that police ill-treatment of suspects has resumed in North Macedonia and that the authorities have done far too little to address the longstanding shortcomings within the prison system.