Croatia: Ongoing, Violent Border Pushbacks Slideshow

A volunteer hands a pair of jeans to a migrant
Klemens Danner, a volunteer with the Jesuit Refugee Service in Bosnia and Herzegovina, distributes clothing to a group of Afghans who said Croatian police had pushed them back earlier that morning without allowing them to seek asylum, April 2023. © 2023 Kiana Hayeri/Human Rights Watch
A woman enters a building
Jesuit Refugee Service advocacy director Roberta Nikšić, pictured here in April 2023, regularly visits squats and other places where asylum seekers and migrants stay in northwestern Bosnia and Herzegovina. © 2023 Kiana Hayeri/Human Rights Watch
Markings in a cemetery
More than a dozen migrants who died in northwest Bosnia and Herzegovina on their way to Croatia are buried in the Humci cemetery in Bihać, many in graves marked “NN Lice” (“unidentified person”). © 2023 Kiana Hayeri/Human Rights Watch
A migrant wearing muddy shoes
A young man describes a pushback by Croatian police the prior evening, saying that they ordered him to wade the river marking the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina, April 2023. © 2023 Kiana Hayeri/Human Rights Watch
A boy sits on a couch in a squat
A 16-year-old Afghan boy rests in a squat in northwest Bosnia and Herzegovina, April 2023, several days after Croatian police pushed him and his friends back. © 2023 Kiana Hayeri/Human Rights Watch
Mattresses arranged on the floor of a tent
Caritas of the Archdiocese of Rijeka, the Jesuit Refugee Service, and the Red Cross offer asylum seekers and migrants who pass through the railway station in Rijeka, Croatia, a place to shower, rest, and eat before they continue their journey. © 2023 Kiana Hayeri/Human Rights Watch
Volunteers provide lunch to migrants
Volunteers with Caritas and the Jesuit Refugee Service provide lunch to asylum seekers and migrants at the railway station in Rijeka, Croatia. © 2023 Kiana Hayeri/Human Rights Watch
People sit on the floor charging their phones
A group of Afghans charge their phones at an initiative operated by Caritas and the Jesuit Refugee Service in Rijeka, Croatia, April 2023. © 2023 Kiana Hayeri/Human Rights Watch
Two men run across train tracks
Two young men from Afghanistan flee the Rijeka railway station before Croatian police arrive, April 2023. © 2023 Kiana Hayeri/Human Rights Watch
Two police officers walk next to train tracks
Croatian police leave the drop-in center operated by Caritas and the Jesuit Refugee Service after dispersing asylum seekers and migrants, April 2023. © 2023 Kiana Hayeri/Human Rights Watch