Switzerland: Violence and racism in asylum centres run by pr

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Some asylum-seekers, including children, put in freezing-cold steel containers - or ‘reflection rooms’
‘The Government must go beyond thinking these acts of abuse are the actions of a few bad apples’
- Alicia Giraudel
People held in federal asylum centres operated by private security companies in Switzerland have been subjected to a range of abuse at the hands of security guards, including violence and coercive measures, the use of pepper gel and being locked in a metal container resulting in hypothermia, said Amnesty International.
The findings - contained in a new 25-page Amnesty report - ‘
Human Rights Violations in Swiss Federal Asylum Centres’ - shows how people have suffered abuse across a lengthy period in facilities operated by the State Secretariat for Migration in Basel, Giffers, Boudry, Altstätten and Vallorbe.

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