Spain violating human rights, says Amnesty

Amnesty International says Spanish authorities are violating human rights conventions by expelling African migrants who have crossed into two Spanish enclaves in Morocco. Amnesty's director for Spain, Esteban Beltran, said that authorities expelled the immigrants without identifying them or considering their possible status as economic refugees or asylum seekers.

"No effort was made to ascertain their names or status," Beltran said. "That is illegal."

In an effort to stem a desperate tide of hundreds of sub-Saharan Africans who have stormed razor-wire border fences with the Spanish territories in recent weeks, Spanish authorities have begun returning them to Morocco.