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EU: "Hot Returns": When the state acts outside the law - Legal Report

30 October 2014

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"Images, witnesses and other numerous sources with evidential value accredit the practices that have been coined as “hot returns” in the cities of Ceuta and Melilla and the small islands under Spanish sovereignty.

In this context, the concept of expulsions or “hot returns” by the law enforcement authorities is being formed, which consists of handing the foreign citizens who have been intercepted by such authorities in the area under Spanish sovereignty over to the Moroccan authorities on a de facto basis without carrying out the legally established procedures or meeting the internationally acknowledged guarantees."

See the full report: "Hot Returns": When the state acts outside the law - Legal Report (pdf).
This Report was fostered by the I+D+i IUSMIGRANTE Project (DER 2011-26449)

See also: Spain: Abandon Abusive Migration Plan (HRW, link): "The Spanish government should immediately drop its plans to provide a legal basis for summary returns from its enclaves in North Africa, 13 human rights groups said today."

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