The Children’s Rights Commissioner has called on the migration department to stop taking the law into its own hands and wants to see an end to the illegal practice of separating families.

Leda Koursoumba told the Cyprus Mail that for more than three years she has been forced to step in to set right the “flagrant violations of children’s rights”. Over the years, she has intervened when children of migrants – often here legally or waiting on their asylum application – were deprived of both their parents or when the families’ breadwinner was arrested. The process of arresting someone for deportation must be reserved for exceptional circumstances, she said.

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