Local authorities in a town west of Zurich, have introduced restrictions that ban asylum-seekers from visiting public places such as school playgrounds, swimming pools and libraries.
A total of 32 ‘exclusion zones' have been drawn up by the Swiss local authorities, in a move that has been denounced by human rights groups as racist and intolerant.
A spokesman for Switzerland’s non-governmental Refugee Council described the new orders as “intolerable and inhumane”.
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