
Stop Human Rights Abuse of Immigrants in Greece


To: Mr. Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission Mr. Terry Davis, Secretary General of the Council of Europe Mr. Thomas Hammarberg, Commissioner for Human Rights Mr. Olli Rehn, European Commissioner for Enlargement Attention: European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) Dear EU officials, Last week, Greek media broadcast a video of two teenagers in an Athens police station being physically and verbally abused by Greek police officers. The teenagers (both immigrants, one of them Albanian) were forced to slap each other violently, under the urges and orders of the officer. This abominable video is a recent and graphic example of the systematic discrimination Albanian citizens and other immigrants suffer in Greece, a member nation of the EU. Many other Albanian immigrants, including Gentian Ã
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