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Marcello Mega

Scots kept in 'open sewer' detention centre in Turkey after being 'beaten up for aiding refugees'

Two Scots journalists held in a detention centre “like an open sewer” have begged the international ­community to rescue 101 refugees, including children, still there.

Sermad Al-Khafaji, 43, from Glasgow, and ­Alexandra Foreman, 34, from Cullen, Moray, were filming refugees seeking asylum from Turkey to Bulgaria last month.

The group, from eight different countries but all of the same ­religion, had paperwork allowing them to pass, but border police chained the gates closed, beat many of the men and detained everyone including 22 children.

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