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BULGARIA: Human Rights Watch: Bulgaria’s Pushbacks and Detention of Syrian and Other Asylum Seekers and Migrants

03 June 2014

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"Bulgaria has embarked on a “Containment Plan” to reduce the number of asylum seekers in the country, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The plan has been carried out in part by summarily pushing back Syrians, Afghans, and others as they irregularly cross the border from Turkey.

The 76-page report, “Containment Plan: Bulgaria’s Pushbacks and Detention of Syrian and other Asylum Seekers and Migrants,” documents how in recent months Bulgarian border police, often using excessive force, have summarily returned people who appear to be asylum seekers to Turkey. The people have been forced back across the border without proper procedures and with no opportunity to lodge asylum claims. Bulgaria should end summary expulsions at the Turkish border, stop the excessive use of force by border guards, and improve the treatment of detainees and conditions of detention in police stations and migrant detention centers."

See the full text: Bulgaria’s Pushbacks and Detention of Syrian and Other Asylum Seekers and Migrants (press release, link), and: Full report (pdf)

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