'Black book' of thousands of illegal migrant pushbacks presented to EU

Shocking dossier of systematic violations of asylum seekers along the notorious Balkan route' compiled by watchdog groups

A 1,500-page black book" documenting hundreds of illegal pushbacks against asylum seekers by authorities on Europe's external borders was released last week and handed over to the EU commission.

Compiled by the watchdog organisation Border Violence Monitoring Network (BVMN), the Black Book of Pushbacks is a collection of 892 group testimonies, detailing the experiences of 12,654 victims of human rights violations along the Balkan migration route, one of the most gruelling in the recent migrant crisis given the alleged violence of border police officers.