A leading human rights group accused Spanish authorities on Saturday of violating the European human rights convention by expelling African migrants who had crossed into two Spanish enclaves in Morocco.
| I knew they'd say that... |
Amnesty International's director for Spain, Esteban Beltran, said authorities expelled the immigrants without identifying them or considering their possible status as economic refugees or asylum seekers, in violation of the convention, which forbids the expulsion of any person to a country where they could be subjected to torture or inhuman or degrading treatment. In an effort to stem a desperate tide of hundreds of sub-Saharan Africans who have stormed razor-wire border fences with the Spanish territories in recent weeks, Spanish authorities have begun returning them to Morocco. "Torture and bad treatment is endemic in Morocco," Beltran said.
| I knew they'd say it, but I still can't quite understand the mentality. The guys were in Morocco to get to Spain, so the conditions must not have been that inhumane. They swarmed razor wire to get into Melilla. Razor wire's designed to keep people out. In this case it signifies an international border. As far as I can figure, nobody's yet come up with a right to swarm across an international border whether you're wanted or not, not even in Texas or Arizona. |
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