Juvenile African migrants are being abused in a Canary Island shelter says Human Rights Watch, as a Maritime Rescue boat with 149 would-be migrants rescued at sea reaches the Canary Island of El Hierro. Hundreds of African children are at risk of violence and even sexual abuse in Spanish government migrant detention centres in the Canary Islands, Human Rights Watch said in a report on Thursday (July 26). Children at the four centres established to cope with a surge in illegal migration to the Canaries last year complained of beatings by staff and of a lack of protection from violence by peers, the human rights lobby group said in a report which the island government said lacked proof. "Clearly there must be some kind of pressure on the Spanish government and we hope our report will trigger, to a certain extent, that pressure, because we document very serious violations including ill-treatment and including ill-treatment that we qualify as inhuman and degrading treatment. Spain is...