Despite the extreme cold, Syrian immigrants were stripped of their clothes on the Serbian border. A video clip showed Serbian authorities taking a group of naked men in near-freezing temperatures, and forcing them to return from Serbia to North Macedonia.
Council of Europe Human Rights Commissioner Dunja Mijatović said, “Recent reports regarding the treatment of migrants by Serbian police officers on the border with North Macedonia, which were characterized by ill-treatment and degrading treatment and the theft of migrants’ belongings, require a prompt and effective investigation by state authorities"