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  • 'They sprayed on us- the Hungarian police. It was tear gas. I thought I was dying. I couldn't breath. They beat us. It was so difficult for all of us.’- refugee from Pakistan. Some refugees refuse to register into a camp because it means having to wait for a very long time. Recent regulations have diminished border entry to one person per day (Hungary, Serbia) prioritising women, children and refugees from Syria. This translates a life in a camp for years. The alternative is to risk ones life crossing the border illegally. Horgos refugee camp, Serbia.
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  • He showed me a scar running through his arm. He says,'this happened when the Bulgarian police saw us.The Bulgarian police attacked us. That's the problem. They beat us. They don't care. We are too scared of them'.
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  • "The Hungarian police took my shoes, clothes and mobile phone. They told me to cross the river and had to walk for two days without shoes. It was winter. I arrived in a village in Turkey without clothes." refugee from Pakistan, Adasevci refugee camp, Serbia.
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  • I met Mostafa as he was hiding along the border between Serbia/Croatia. He had been beaten many times. In the last event, he was beaten by the Bulgarian police and all his money and mobile phone was taken from him.
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  • "Bulgarian police here is not like in the rest of Europe. They don't respect you. They don't see us as human. They see us as another creature."  S.,Sofia, Bulgaria, 2018
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  • ‘I knew I was going to be beaten. A group of Bulgarian youths, maybe 12 of them, wearing black hoods covering their faces, came up to me and asked if I could speak Bulgarian. I knew that the question was to determine my refugee status and to ascertain that I was not able to seek help. They pushed me in the bus shelter so that I ha no escape routes. I was beaten but managed to escape running as fast as I could. When I was given medication at the Red Cross, the police was called and asked me what I wanted them to do. I said that Id did not care that those that beat me would be punished, but I wanted it to stop and protection so that we could go out without fearing for our lives.’ Mohamed, refugee from Afghanistan,Voempa Rampa, Sofia, Bulgaria.
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  • I met M. in AC Krnjaca refugee camp just coming from an hospital. During the night he was trying to cross to Croatia and was beaten,. His arm was fractured. He recounts: ‘I was going to cross into Croatia border coming from Serbia. I had a lot of beating, bones broken. They left me in pain just lying on the floor, like that.’ M., AC Krnjaca refugee camp, Belgrade, Serbia.
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  • Yusuf (refugee from Afghanistan), rolls out an x-ray and points to where a bone from his shoulder was broken. The Bulgarian police broke his bone as he attempted to cross the border. Even in extreme pain, he was made to undress and leave all his belongings behind. Then was pushed back without clothes. Sid, Serbia
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  • Being pushed back and beaten by the Croatian border police. His foot was injured. He and his friends were trying to cross the border. They got caught and run away. He fell over a log lying on the ground. His leg was still over the log when the police reached him and kicked over the foot with all their strength. He showed me the x-ray that the medical team gave him on his release. G., Sid, Serbia
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