Rights groups denounce Spain and Morocco's lack of justice as Melilla tragedy anniver

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Rights groups on Friday denounced a lack of justice and transparency over the deaths of 37 migrants on June 24, 2022, during a mass attempt to cross the border from Morocco into the Spanish enclave city of Melilla. Ahead of the tragedy's anniversary, Amnesty International said the Spanish and Moroccan authorities were “preventing attempts to find the truth" of what happened when up to 2,000 African migrants tried to climb a border wall and dozens were crushed, beaten and denied medical attention by security forces at the “Barrio Chino” border crossing. Spain’s interior minister has repeatedly rejected that any deaths occurred on Spanish soil.