Hana Kavanova, a volunteer at the Bela-Jezova detention centre northeast of Prague, said that the authorities at the camp were holding a woman who had newly delivered a baby by cesarean. “Though she clearly needed medical treatment, they locked her overnight in a gym with other new arrivals: men, women and children,” Kavanova said.

What’s more, refugees at such detention facilities pay €9 per day to stay there, are regularly strip-searched and forced to hand over cash and mobile phones, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein has said.

3. Slovakia

Refugees entering Europe are often confronted with an atmosphere of hatred and rejection by far-right groups like this one in Slovakia.

“Since Slovakia is a Christian country, we cannot tolerate an influx of 300,000–400,000 Muslim immigrants who would like to start building mosques all over our land and trying to change the nature, culture and values ​​of the state,” Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico said in January 2015. He went further: “Islam has no place in Slovakia.”

Slovakia also rejected the EU quota, saying it was only willing to take in Christian refugees.