Our View: Cyprus has every right to stem irregular migrant flows

Human Rights Watch issued a scathing report about the treatment of Syrian migrants and refugees by the Cyprus and Lebanese authorities. The New York-based NGO, which interviewed some of these migrants, said they had reported “a myriad of abuses throughout the cycle of pull and pushbacks and expulsions.” It also claimed, in its 90-page report, that “both Lebanese and Cypriot authorities used excessive force at the time of arrest and during detention including beatings, body restraints and verbal...