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Europe’s tolerance of refugee abuse ‘alarming’

Acceptance of refugee abuse in Europe is alarming, a top human rights defender has said after a Greek sinking tragedy.

Dunja Mijatović, the commissioner for human rights at the Strasbourg-based watchdog, the Council of Europe, said she was “struck by the alarming level of tolerance to serious human-rights violations against refugees, asylum seekers and migrants that has developed across Europe”.

Published by: euobserver.com