Less than a week ago French authorities were shooting asylum seekers in a dinghy with rubber bullets. HRW has now released further degrading treatment against refugees by them. Croatian authorities are beating them and throwing them back across the border. 1/
Greece is conducting pushback operations putting their lives at risk. Italy just prosecuted one of its own mayor's for providing assistance to refugees. Spain forces many to sleep rough. Germany had more than 1,600 attacks against them last year. 2/
And on and on it goes, and on top of all this the EU sends refugees back to Libya where they are known to be kidnapped, sold into slavery, tortured and murdered. You know what, I'm thinking there's some good reasons why asylum seekers may not stay in these "safe countries". 3/
And that's before we get to the not insignificant matter that the concept of "first safe country" is utterly bollocks and falls down when even the most basic elements of commonsense are applied, not to mention it not being a legal term anyway. 4/
Can you imagine what would happen if every country claimed refugees had to seek asylum in the "first safe country". Already 83% are in developing nations. It would mean a handful of countries had to host all of them. It's just not a serious thought for anyone applying logic. 5/
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