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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9519
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Council of Europe concerned about opening of transit centres for migrants and asylum seekers

Brussels, 09/10/2007 (Agence Europe) - At the beginning of October, parliamentarians from the Council of Europe expressed “serious concerns about human rights” with regard to proposals on the opening of transit centres and the treatment of migrants in countries outside the EU. Similar measures have been taken in the past in other regions of the world. At the beginning of the 1990s, Haitians were intercepted at sea and redirected in this way as asylum seekers to the US naval base in...

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