The European Union (EU) is abandoning all pretense of human rights restraints in its refugee policy. A strategy paper published last week by the EU Commission outlined migration partnerships that will compensate nine states in Africa and the Middle East, both transit countries and countries of origin, for their cooperation in deterring refugees. The goal …
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Unfavourable views on Muslims rise in Europe.
Coup soldiers attacked civilians with tanks, F-16 jets and helicopters. They targeted innocent civilians deliberately. Turkish parliament and Presidential Complex were also bombed by coup plotters. However, despite this tragic event that no representatives or officials from EU have visited for condolence since failed coup in Turkey.
Dozens of refugees held in a detention center in Madrid have protested, climbing on the building’s roof, a spokesperson for the city’s mayor said. “We don’t know the exact number, 30 or 40. They climbed onto the roof and the police are there attempting to negotiate,” the spokesperson for Madrid mayor Manuela Carmena said Wednesday, …
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Three popular British news websites ran the story with claims now reported to be false by the Spanish press. British news sites published a breaking story about a gunman wearing a suicide vest, shouting “Allahu Akbar”, and opening fire in a Spanish supermarket. The Mail Online article published on 11 January tells the story of …
A Muslim woman has been beaten senseless by a mob in Spain in apparent ‘revenge’ for the Barcelona terror attack. Police say the unnamed 38-year-old woman – who was wearing a hijab – was set upon by the gang and needed hospital treatment for cuts, bruises and an anxiety attack she suffered. Reports say doctors …
The Sevilla Mosque Foundation’s centre was targeted with anti-Muslim hate speech, such as ‘Killers, you’re going to pay’, and another one that used a slur for North Africans. The graffiti, which was discovered on Saturday morning, also included threats to behead Muslims with machetes. At the same time a mosque in Granada was attacked with …
A baby dolphin died after being passed around and photographed by tourists who found it stranded at a busy Spanish beach. Curious holidaymakers flocked to examine the calf – some of them taking selfies with the creature – after it washed up in Mojácar, Almeira. They were criticised by a marine wildlife rescue group, which …
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Asylum seekers and other migrants arriving by sea to Spanish shores are held in poor conditions and face obstacles in applying for asylum. They are held for days in dark, dank cells in police stations. According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), 7,847 people reached Spanish shores between January 1 and July 26, 2017, …
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Spain’s foreign minister has argued police violence during Catalonia’s independence vote was “not extraordinary” and claimed “fake photos” of brutality have been circulating on social media. Violent scenes erupted across Catalonia on Sunday as riot police beat protesters and stormed polling stations in an eleventh-hour attempt to prevent the vote on independence from Spain going …
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