Thread by @Border_Violence

Important read from Lucy Papachristou @lucypapa96 on the experience of separated families at the HR-BiH border.
aljazeera.com/features/2021/…

Over the past months, refugee families trapped outside the EU in northwestern #Bosnia have begun trying a new “game”, the "stay game". An attempt by some husbands to join again their wives and children, as legal as possible.

“The fact that these men are denied the right to seek asylum and instead expelled from the country is a breach of international law in its own right”, says Lisa Koerber @eine_Lisa_ , head of the border violence monitoring programme at @NoNameKitchen1

As many others, these fathers face the #violence inflicted by #border police every time they are illegally pushed back. One simple goal gives them strength to brave the increasingly violent methods used to prevent #refugees from reaching their destinations, to see their children.

The @CMSZagreb filed two criminal complaints last December on behalf of asylum-seekers who alleged they were detained by Croatian authorities and “brutally tortured”.
cms.hr/en/azil-i-inte…