2024-04-23 22:23:39
Spain continues “without investigating in an effective way the violent response of the authorities to the attempts to cross the border between Melilla and Morocco in 2022”. This is how Amnesty International (AI) opens the references to Spain in the annual report in which it assesses the situation of human rights in the world.
Almost two years later, the deaths of 37 migrants at the hands of law enforcement remain unexplained, the report says. Amnesty also reports that for migrants who can arrive in Spain, whether through Melilla, Ceuta, or by sea, the bureaucracy of the asylum request is extended by at least six months until they have their first interview, time during which they can be expelled.
On the other hand, the report also singles out Spain for the judicial impunity surrounding the case of espionage through the Pegasus spy program against at least 65 people, among whom were journalists, political representatives and members of Catalan civil society.
Amnesty also targets Spanish political leaders for not taking responsibility for the deaths of up to 35,000 elderly people in care homes during the peak of covid-19. This led, according to the organization, to five violations of human rights: the right to life, to health, to non-discrimination, to private and family life and to a dignified death.
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