Amnesty International submits this briefing for consideration by the Committee against Torture (the Committee). The document summarises some of Amnesty International ...
The French authorities have released most of the 138 migrants and asylum-seekers held in immigration detention centres since a 22 September police operation to ...
French authorities have evicted over 278 migrants and asylum-seekers from their makeshift encampments near Calais. Of those that were arrested approximately 138 ...
Hundreds of asylum-seekers and migrants are at imminent risk of forced eviction from encampments near Calais in northern France, after the authorities stated that ...
Abdelhakim Ajimi died in the city of Grasse in 2008, after being restrained by police officers during arrest. In March 2009 five police officers involved in the ...
Abou Bakari Tandia, an irregular migrant from Mali, lived in France for 13 years. He died after falling into a coma in police custody in December 2004. Almost five ...
Lamba Soukouna was beaten by police officers outside his home on 8 May 2008. He is registered as 80 per cent disabled. He made a complaint to the internal police ...
Unlawful killings, beatings, racial abuse and excessive use of force bylaw enforcement officials are prohibited under international law in allcircumstances. Yet ...
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