EU states ‘not properly investigating’ reports of rights violations at borders

Fundamental rights body warns of flawed approach to credible accounts of ill-treatment and loss of life

Authorities in EU member states are not doing enough to investigate credible reports of violations of human rights, including deaths, on their borders, an EU human rights body has said.

The EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) said human rights agencies and NGOs were reporting serious, recurrent and widespread rights violations against migrants and refugees during border management" but despite credible" reports many were not investigated.