This report was originally submitted in Arabic
| Push-Back: | From CROATIA to BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA |
| When did the push-back happen: | 20/12/2020 |
| Where did the push-back start: | Sisak |
Where did it end: | By a river between Croatia and Bosnia 45.211373,15.927649 |
| Places you have been to during the push-back: | POLICE STATION, POLICE CAR, ABANDONED BUILDING |
| How many people were pushed-back?: | 2 |
| How were you treated during the push-back? | We were hit, injured, shouted at, threatened, forced to strip, lost all our belongings, deprived of food and water. This was the most difficult night of my life. Croatian police found and arrested us around 3 am. They handed us to an SUV with masked people. The drove us to the Bosnian borders and there they started to beat us up. They stripped us from our clothes and shoes and then said that we should jump into the river. We refused to do so, so they beat us up until we voluntarily jumped in the river not knowing how deep or not the river was and the jump was incredibly painful. |
| Who pushed you back? | PEOPLE IN UNIFORM. POLICE AND MASKED UNIFORMED PEOPLE WITH GUNS. |
| Did you ask for asylum? | Yes |
| Were you documented and how? My personal information was taken. | They wrote down our information. |
| I self-identify as: | I am a muslim man from Morocco and I live in the western Sahara. It is dangerous and no future. I asked the Croatian police to apply for asylum but they refused to listen. |