Serious human rights violations and refugee deaths are being recorded in the Hellenic Coast Guard’s maritime border operations, according to a new report by Refugee Support Aegean (RSA).
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has once again refused to recognise the State of Palestine, repeating that ‘the right conditions’ have not yet been met. Speaking during his second parliamentary address…
Tensions broke out on Saturday afternoon in front of the Monument to the Unknown Soldier in Athens, when three Palestinians who have been staging a daily sit-in at Syntagma Square…
An inflatable boat carrying 65 refugees and migrants was identified on Saturday by a Frontex vessel in waters south of Gavdos, the southernmost Greek island, located to the south of…
The Minister of Migration and Asylum, Thanos Plevris, has once again unleashed hatred, declaring on a television programme that “not only the persecuted come to Greece, but also the spoiled”.…
The Greek section of Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières, MSF) has issued an urgent appeal to the Greek government, demanding immediate intervention to halt what it describes as a…
Former deputy prime minister Evangelos Venizelos, who served in a coalition government with the currently ruling New Democracy, has publicly criticised the government’s legal justification for a recent amendment on…
A new application for annulment has been submitted to Greece’s Council of State by the Greek Council for Refugees (ESP) and Refugee Support Aegean (RSA). The two organisations are challenging…
The Minister of Migration and Asylum, Makis Voridis, is set to introduce a new anti-immigration bill that marks a sharp turn towards stricter and more punitive migration policies in Greece.…
Seventeen members of the Greek Coast Guard are being referred to an investigating judge over the Pylos shipwreck, according to Dimitris Zotos, the lawyer representing survivors of the tragedy.