Police in Italy have subjected refugees and migrants to serious ill-treatment, including beatings and electric shocks to force them to be fingerprinted under an EU-sponsored scheme to process refugees and migrants in the country. In some cases, this treatment may amount to torture. These shocking claims are revealed in a new Amnesty report into the so-called hotspot approach, introduced last year and designed to identify and fingerprint newly arrived refugees and migrants at the point of entry to the EU.