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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11234

21 January 2015
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) jha
HRW denounces abusive treatment in Calais

Brussels, 20/01/2015 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 20 January, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) NGO, stated in a press release that asylum seekers and migrants living in destitution in the port town of Calais have been subject to harassment and violence from the French police force.

The abuses described to Human Rights Watch include beatings and attacks with pepper spray as the migrants and asylum seekers walked in the street or hid in trucks in the hope of travelling to the United...

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