A total of 182 refugees and migrants arrived in Paleochora overnight and early on Sunday morning, following two rescue operations south of Gavdos and the grounding of a boat at…
Greece’s hardening migration policy is turning reception facilities into de facto prisons. At Sintiki, detainees describe hunger, disease, repeated suicide attempts and months of uncertainty, conditions corroborated in part by…
Under Greece’s new asylum rules, lawyers are being asked to assess refugees in groups, warn them of prison and receive a €250 bonus if they return home. Many are refusing…
At least 359 people, including 94 women, 90 children and 42 people with specific vulnerabilities, were allegedly subjected to informal forced returns by the Greek state between 2023 and 2025,…
The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Michael O’Flaherty, has warned that plans to establish ‘return hubs’ outside the European Union must comply fully with international human rights law.
Popular Unity – Insubordinate Left has marked three years since the Pylos shipwreck, saying that ‘the perpetrators have names, as do those who cover it up’.
‘Three years have passed since the Pylos shipwreck crime, with no trial yet under way to punish those responsible. More than 600 people died a torturous death, including hundreds of…
The debate on the new European Pact on Migration and Asylum sparked intense political confrontation in the Plenary of Parliament, after Makis Voridis addressed parties to the right of New…
The bill implementing the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum has been submitted to Parliament through fast-track procedures, as is usual practice. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) submitted its comments on…
A boat carrying 35 migrants was located 49 nautical miles south-southeast of Gavdos and its passengers were later picked up and rescued by a Greek patrol boat.