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The Council of Europe rights body Tuesday condemned the «inhuman and degrading treatment» of migrants and asylum seekers held in Greece, adding it had credible allegations of abuse by police. «Foreign nationals deprived of their liberty by tRights group slams 'inhuman' treatment of migrants in Greece
The Council of Europe rights body Tuesday condemned the «inhuman and degrading treatment» of migrants and asylum seekers held in Greece, adding it had credible allegations of abuse by police. «Foreign nationals deprived of their liberty by the Greek authorities must be treated humanely and with dignity,» the Council's European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) said. The committee published the report after visiting the country - which has been at the frontline of the migration crisis in Europe - over 10 days in April 2018. «Conditions of detention were found to be grossly sub-standard in some of the police and border guard stations visited,» it said. At one centre in the Evros region in the northeast on the Turkish border, families, children, pregnant women and single men were held together for weeks and sometimes months in a centre that offered just one square metre of living space per person. It said such conditions «can easily be considered as amounting to inhuman and degrading treatment.» The committee also said it received «credible allegations of police ill-treatment (slaps, punches, kicks, baton blows and verbal abuse) from foreign nationals held» in the Evros... Read more