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EU coast guards rescue nearly 6,000 Mediterranean refugees over 48 hours
juin 8, 2015
Ships from Italy, Germany, Britain and other EU countries have rescued nearly 6,000 migrants from the Mediterranean over the weekend. The influx has spurred backlash in Italy, where the migrants will initially be hosted. The Italian coast guard on Sunday said that Italian, German, Swedish, Spanish and British ships rescued 5,851 migrants, mostly found about […]
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EU Watchdog: Torture in Europe Prisons Feeds Terror
mars 5, 2015
The European Union (EU)’s top human rights watchdog warned that torture at the hands of European police and prison officers is feeding the threat of terrorism across the continent, demanding an end to such ill-treatment. Thorbjørn Jagland, the secretary general of the Council of Europe, made the remarks in an opinion piece published by the […]
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