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italians often do not register refugees from eritrea and serbia, turning a blind eye to eu immigration laws. >> the people who come here already know they can refuse or should refuse to be fingerprinted. otherwise, they would be stuck in italy, not be able to travel elsewhere in europe, and if they do, they will be sent to italy. >> mainly, the syrians and eritreans make use of this loophole regularly, and they make a pact with all of italy's boat people. >> for cases like this, refugee organizations are demanding new rules. for instance, if a refugee has relatives in europe, that person should have the right to temporary asylum. that would also want to believe the italians who are currently playing host to tens of thousands of refugees. until things change, the seine georgia -- the san georgio will continue patrol and picking up people. >> have you ever wondered why your neighbor can afford to buy yet another brand-new car? it you live in sweden, there is an easy way to find out -- check your neighbor's salary. it's all online. tax statements have to be published in sweden for the sak

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set up their torture camps in science more than three thousand migrants per month are coming from eritrea alone many of them are being kidnapped for ransom and tortured until their families pay up if they don't the traffickers kill the hostages more than four thousand people have already been killed since two thousand and eight around a thousand are thought to be in captivity right now shocking but no one's talking about this foreign governments are not interested israel doesn't want these migrants so it's turning a blind eye the u.n. is also silent thousands of people killed in the last six years are african migrants any less people than say americans russians or french there are those though who care. it was. only. there were melting plastic bags and dropping it in there max this is the burns. so deal with. that with the actual membership. stuff almos you've just seen her in that clip and she joins us live in the now tonight you've been in contact with some of the people who are lucky enough to escape these torture camps what do they say about what has happened to them there. well every

most of them coming from syria and eritrea and mali. and what we would like so much and we appeal the european union for is to create legal alternatives. that means to create resettlement projects, humanitarian initiatives, to interpret also the eu asylum rules in a flexible way that will allow to make the principle of solidarity a concrete step in order to really protect thousands and thousands of refugees that need to find a safe place. >> the italian prime minister has said that the eu needs to take more responsibility. do you agree? is all this being mismanaged on the european level? >> you know, it is in a way it is something tragic. it is something very difficult not only for italy but for the eu as a whole, to be -- to be, i mean, managed, and it will increase, and everybody knows that unless difficult conflicts like the syrian one or the other conflicts we are having, iraq is another place, the central african republic, there will be no stop to try and reach europe. there is no way to stop, and the responsibility of the receptio

opened last december, the detention center houses around 2,500 people, most from sudan, and eritrea seeking asylum. israel built an electric fence to stem the tide of people getting in. it worked. the israeli government is upped scrutiny for how it -- under screwed ni for those that do get in but now want out. >>> protesters in canada held a protest for mohamed fadel fahmy. he holds canadian and shan citizenship. protesters are demanding the release of a resident aid to former president mohamed mursi. al jazeera continues to demand the release of our journalists in egypt. they were sentenced on monday and have been in prison for 183 days. peter greste and mohamed fadel fahmy were given seven years. baher mohamed was sentenced to 10 years because he had a spent bullet in his pocket which he picked up at a protest. >>> muslims around the world have begun to fast for the holy month of ramadan. it's the hoeliest month in the calman dar. from dawn to dusk and end with the holiday when they stop fasting. >>> south sudan's children are sucked into a cycle are neglect and abuse. the fighting uproot

currently the state department designates eight countries of those of concern, the worst abusers, burma, eritrearth korea, saudi arabia, sudan and uzbekistan. we currently are recommending eight additional countries, some of them have been on recommendations for years but as you noted they haven't always been taken. the countries that we are recommending but have not been designated as countries of particular concern are egypt, iraq, nigeria, pakistan, syria, tajik ten, turkmenistan and vietnam. we list pakistan at the very top of our list of offending nations which have not yet been designated as countries of particular concern. if there's one country at the top of the list that should be so designated as i've recently testified that is pakistan because the horrific abuses that take place there including abuses again against the baha'i community. the last designations by the state department were in 2011. i believe. we strongly advocate annual designations, if annual designations aren't meat they become in the words of my colleague, the vice chairman of our commission, katrina, sweat the daught