Ukraine: Asylum-seekers detained and ill-treated

Index Number: EUR 50/001/2012
Date Published: 31 January 2012
Categories: Ukraine

Somali and Eritrean asylum-seekers and migrants are on hunger strike in protest against their illegal detention at a Migrant Accommodation Centre in Western Ukraine. They, and detainees from other countries supporting them have been threatened and beaten and are at risk of other ill-treatment.