UN rapporteur blasts Greek mistreatment of migrants

ANKARA

A UN official on Tuesday condemned Greek authorities’ mistreatment of irregular migrants trying to cross into Europe in search of a better life.

“I am profoundly angered, disgusted with these repeated violations of international law, of the morality of what it should be to be human: Protect those in need,” Agnes Callamard wrote on Twitter, after reposting a video of a migrant boat being shot at by the Greek Coast Guard.

“How many EU leaders will react to the images of this Greek border control boat shooting at children? Pushing them back like plague?” said Callamard, the special rapporteur