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• Croatia
• Bosnia & Herzegovina

Human rights activists slammed Croatian authorities for violent pushbacks of migrants and called for the abolition of the EU's Frontex border agency. Croatia denies taking violent measures against migrants.

• Hungary

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban says he wants a total stop to immigration for two years. The controversial leader also refered to armies of migrants attempting to reach Europe.

• Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Croatia
• Greece

A Balkans-based network of human rights groups has released a report on pushbacks against migrants in Greece and Croatia. It claims that systematic violence by Croatian and Greek authorities often amounts to "torture or inhuman and degrading treatment."

• Bosnia & Herzegovina

The German Red Cross has announced a new emergency aid project to support migrants and refugees in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Hundreds of migrants continue to transit the country en route to the European Union.

• Afghanistan
• Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Croatia

Croatian police are investigating reports that an Afghan woman was sexually harassed at the country’s border with Bosnia-Herzegovina in the middle of February. She says she was held at knife-point and asked to strip naked whilst being touched by officers.

• Croatia
• Bosnia & Herzegovina

The IOM in Bosnia has called for the international community to take "urgent action to end violent pushbacks and collective expulsions of migrants, asylum seekers and refugees, including minors, along the Croatian border with Bosnia Herzegovina."

• Bosnia & Herzegovina

Since 2019, around a dozen migrants have been buried in the Humci cemetery in Bihac, but almost none of the graves are marked with names. Although authorities haven’t always been able to establish their identities, they have always determined their cause of death: None of them died "of natural causes."

• Bosnia & Herzegovina

For most migrants, Bosnia is but a pit stop on their way to western Europe. Many live in squats in the northwestern town of Bihac, preparing to cross the border to Croatia irregularly. Whenever the squats are cleared by police, the migrants are brought back to the overcrowded Lipa camp – further away from the border.

• Bosnia & Herzegovina

Soufyan Ali, a Pakistani living in the Lipa camp in northern Bosnia for the past three months, has sent an open letter to MEPs, urging them to act on behalf of asylum seekers trapped in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The association No Name Kitchen forwarded his letter to InfoMigrants.

• Pakistan
• Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Croatia

A landmine exploded in central Croatia killing one migrant and injuring several others. The place where the incident happened remains full of explosives left over from the war nearly three decades ago.

• Croatia
• Bosnia & Herzegovina

Bosnian authorities have announced that over 100 migrants who had been sleeping rough have been moved into asylum centers. Nearly half of those moved were reportedly children.

• Bosnia & Herzegovina

Thousands of refugees and migrants wait in Bosnia for the possibility to enter the EU. Disagreements over how to distribute aid threaten to leave many in cold — if it weren't for volunteers working on their own.