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UNITED NATIONS human rights supremo Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein criticised EU member states yesterday for failing to uphold their commitment to resettle tens of thousands of refugees now stuck in Greece and Italy.
Mr Hussein told the Human Rights Council that he had noted a “worrying increase” in detention of migrants where “even unaccompanied children are frequently placed in prison cells or centres ringed with barbed-wire.”
He said that EU members “need to make good on their commitments” made last September to relocate 160,000 people from Greece and Italy, citing new figures showing that fewer than 1 per cent of those have been relocated.
The Islamic Republic is attempting to deflect from its own failures with a scapegoating campaign against vulnerable and impoverished migrants, writes JAMSHID AHMADI
RON JACOBS welcomes a book that tells the story of the far right in Greece from the perspective of migrants