Containment plan
Subtitle: Bulgaria's pushbacks and detention of Syrian and other asylum seekers and migrants
Contributors: Human Rights Watch (Organization)
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Bulgaria's pushbacks and detention of Syrian and other asylum seekers and migrants
Language: eng
Number of pages: 76
ISBN-13: 9781623131258
Subjects: Human rights; Crimes against; Immigrants; Syrian Refugees; Ethnic relations
Description: "Since the Bulgarian government announced a plan in early November 2013 to contain and reduce the number of asylum seekers and other migrants irregularly crossing the border with Turkey, Bulgarian authorities have systematically prevented Syrians, Afghans, and other undocumented people from entering Bulgaria to lodge asylum claims. This report calls on the Bulgarian government to end summary expulsions at the Turkish border and to stop the excessive use of force by border guards. It also calls on the Bulgarian government to improve the treatment of detainees and detention conditions in police stations and migrant detention centers."--Back cover.
Notes: "April 2014"--Page [1].

"Bill Frelick, Refugee Rights Program director at Human Rights Watch, researched authored this report"--Page 76.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Map; title: A pushback victim's story; title: Summary; title: Recommendations; title: Methodology; title: I. Bulgarian border police pushbacks to Turkey and abuses upon apprehension; title: II. The Bulgarian containment plan and the principle of nonrefoulement; title: III. Abuses and detention conditions in border police stations; title: IV. Abuses and conditions in migrant detention centers; title: V. Conditions in registration and reception centers; title: VI. Detention and lack of care for unaccompanied children; title: VII. Asylum seekers living outside the centers; title: VIII. Protection gaps in the asylum system; title: IX. Failure to support and integrate refugees; title: Acknowledgements.