Report on the Performance of Activities of the National Preventive Mechanism for 2017 responsibility for ill-treatment extends beyond the actual perpetrators to anyone who knows, or should know, that ill treatment is occurring and fails to act to prevent or report it. It is therefore particularly worrying that the STRUCTURE OF APPLICANTS FOR INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION AT THE TOVARNIK PS AGE Afganistan under 14 18 14-17 3 CITIZENSHIP Algeria 18 and older 29 MoI is persistently refusing to re-examine the previously described treatments of TOTAL 50 3 3 irregular migrants apprehended within the territory, as well as the lack of clear communication on the conducted activities following the complaints of international organizations and CSOs about the police Iraq 2 2 4 Iran 3 6 9 Cuba Pakistan 1 3 1 3 Russia 1 1 international protection, that is, sometimes conduct. It includes returning migrants to Serbia, sometimes even without any treatment, ignoring their requests for Syria 3 27 30 taking them directly to the green border Tunisia 1 1 2 and instructing them to cross it, even using 0 force at times. Arguments used by the MoI, 2 5 75 108 that all migrants' statements about the Turkey Uzbekistan TOTAL 3 30 3 police conduct are probably false and motivated by being prevented to reach their destination countries, are inadequate, general, unacceptable and do not meet the requirements of an effective investigation. Precisely this failure to conduct an appropriate investigation raised some suspicions regarding the death of a little girl on the border with Serbia. Namely, the complaint filed by her mother contained similar statements to the ones filed to CSOs and the Ombudswoman, which were never thoroughly investigated and which point to systematic implementation of procedures in the above described manner. Namely, the mother said that she decided to enter Croatia together with six children aged 15, 8, 6, 3 and 2. She crossed the two state borders on 21 November 2017 around 17.00, and walked for another hour before spotting police officers and seeking asylum. However, When the highest ranking officials of the Ministry of the Interior publicly accuse the Ombudswoman by saying that these issues should not be communicated with the public, because this is not in line with the political priorities of the Republic of Croatia, it represents a direct pressure imposed by the executive power on the work of an independent national human rights institution. they instructed her to go back to Serbia and return next month. After she insisted on seeking protection, according to her statements, the police officers got angry and started yelling at her to return to Serbia. She then asked them to spend the night in the RC because the children were exhausted, but they did not listen and forced them to keep walking, and after a while a police vehicle arrived and drove them back, close to the railway, after which the police officers told her to follow the railway to Serbia. Soon after, a train killed her six-year-old daughter Madina. Since the family pressed charges, the 45