Croatian police are returning groups of asylum seekers across the EU’s external border with Bosnia, a video obtained by the Guardian suggests, in an apparent breach of EU law. Every night, people from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan try to cross into Croatia from Bosnia. The majority of them arrive in Bosnia through Turkey, hoping to reach Slovenia, a member of Europe’s passport-free Schengen area. BVM said collective expulsions violated the Geneva convention on refugees, the EU charter of fundamental rights and article 14 of the universal declaration of human rights. It said officers were not expelling migrants but legally “deterring them from illegally entering Croatia” under article 13 of the Schengen border code.

Source: The Guardian December 17, 2018 13:22 UTC