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uawchild

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Thu Oct 22, 2015, 10:04 AM Oct 2015

U.N. criticizes Czech detentions and strip-searches of refugees

Source: Reuters

U.N. human rights chief Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein accused the Czech Republic on Thursday of committing systematic human rights violations by detaining refugees for up to 90 days and strip-searching them for money to pay for their own detention.

Human rights violations "appear to be an integral part of a policy by the Czech Government designed to deter migrants and refugees from entering the country or staying there," he said in a statement.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/22/us-europe-migrants-czech-un-idUSKCN0SG14W20151022



Though its considered, perhaps, the most western and modern of the new eastern European members of EU and NATO, the Czech Republic still has a lingering xenophobic streak common to the smaller nations in the region.

These countries have relatively small populations, no history of immigration and assimilation of migrants and are still aggressively defensive of their hard won national sovereignty and national cultures.
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U.N. criticizes Czech detentions and strip-searches of refugees (Original Post) uawchild Oct 2015 OP
comment to keep eye on thread and kick and recomment n/t w0nderer Oct 2015 #1
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