Democracy & Justice

Croatian Media Reports on 'Torture Garage' for Migrants

The online news outlet H-alter reports that, over the past six months, many eye-witness accounts have emerged suggesting that Croatian police are detaining and torturing refugees and migrants in a garage at the police...

by Lovorka Šošić
The garage can just be seen behind the police station. (Image: https://www.h-alter.org/vijesti/garaza-za-mucenje-migranata)

The online news outlet H-alter reports that, over the past six months, many eye-witness accounts have emerged suggesting that Croatian police are detaining and torturing refugees and migrants in a garage at the police station in Korenica, Croatia. The "garage with the blue door" is - according to both the witness accounts and the newest Border Violence Monitoring report - the site of beatings and starvation of refugees and migrants. And it sits just a few feet from a children's playground.

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