SARAJEVO, April 23 (Reuters) - Bosnian edge police above Tuesday denied mistreating migrants back a video emerged of detainees can a edge holding facility can what appeared to exist cages.
The short video was released by pro-migrant charity Are You Syrious which says it was sent it by one of the detainees. It shows people held can small cells separated by wire mesh.
The charity said the migrants were Iraqis and included five children, one only 3 years old.
The police said the facility shown can the video is a momentary detention hinder because illegal migrants, built with funding from the European Union, can the Klobuk edge crossing where migrants entering from Montenegro are held pending deportation.
"Bosnia-Herzegovina edge police contradict brutal treatment of migrants can its facility can the Klobuk edge crossing," they said can a statement.
The video, that shows some detainees huddled can blankets, has caused public outrage can Bosnia, besides the police said the cells had air-conditioning and heating and the migrants were no locked in.
The migrants, caught above Monday when they were intercepted familiar the edge without identification, stayed can the facility because impartial two hours ago the Montenegrin police took them back, the police added.
Bosnia, however recovering from polite war can the 1990s, is struggling to deal with thousands of migrants during January 2018, when it became a foremost transit people during other countries, such during EU members Hungary, Slovenia and Croatia, sealed their borders.
Activists dine always criticized the treatment of migrants by the Croatian police above Bosnia's northwestern borders. They now state more cases of mistreatment by the Bosnian police above the southern borders are being reported. (Reporting by Daria Sito-Sucic; Editing by Aleksandar Vasovic and Robin Pomeroy)