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Viennese NGO Accuses ICMPD of Building Austrian Guantanamo
Plans for the Lipa refugee camp in Bosnia-Herzegovina have recently caused a stir. A deportation center with a prison is to be built at the facility, which is to be built in 2020, according to reports. At the same time, the NGO SOS Balkan Route raised the accusation that Austria was co-financing the construction of the prison; media reports named the International Center for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD), headed by former Vice Chancellor Michael Spindelegger, as a partner in the project.
A sign listing some sponsors for the construction of the facility. / Picture: © SOS Balkanroute
Meanwhile, the Viennese NGO, SOS Balkan Route, led by rapper Petar Rosandic, reiterated the accusations against the facility already raised the previous week. "A high fence, cameras at every step, windows with prison bars and almost no daylight in the cells," it said Tuesday in a dispatch titled "This is what the Austrian Guantanamo in Bosnia looks like."
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