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Europe’s anti-torture monitor says authorities in some countries are using violence, dogs and the humiliation of stripping migrants to drive them back across borders
Europe's top rights body on Thursday blasted the "inhuman" treatment of migrants who were brutally turned away at its borders.
Notorious criminal Gerard Mackin, who pleaded guilty to laundering thousands of euro in crime cash in Limerick, accepts he has made poor choices in the past and intends to turn his life around with his family in Spain when he is released from prison, the Special Criminal Court has heard.
The Council of Europe has slammed member states for their "degrading treatment" of migrants at the borders. It said many were subjected to "punches and slap blows" by law enforcement officials.
Border guards and police in certain European countries use dogs and violence to torture migrants, according to Europe's ant-torture monitor.