Shipwreck off Pharmakonisi
24/03/2025
A boat carrying migrants sank on the night of Saturday in the waters off Pharmakonisi.
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Mitsotakis in Brussels: Calls for increased defence spending and the return of migrants to their country of origin
20/03/2025
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis reiterated his hardline stance on immigration upon arriving at the EU summit in Brussels. Building on the rhetoric of his newly appointed Minister for Migration…
Greece’s new Minister of Migration advocates forced pushbacks and pressure tactics to remove migrants
18/03/2025
In an interview on the morning of 18 March, 2025, Greece’s newly appointed Minister of Migration and Asylum, Makis Voridis, used extreme anti-immigrant rhetoric of hate, referring to “enforced pushbacks.”…
Greece’s new Migration Minister states the government decides who comes, for how long and under what conditions
17/03/2025
From day one, Greece’s new Minister for Migration and Asylum, Makis Voridis, has made his stance clear. He affirms that those entering legally must respect Greece’s traditions, values, and cultural…
At least 171 dead or missing in the Aegean in 2024: alarming findings on refugee shipwrecks
10/03/2025
According to a report published today, March 10th, by the international organisation Refugee Support Aegean (RSA), in 2024, 61 refugees were pulled from the sea dead, while another 59 are…
Political refugee from the Community of Squatted Prosfygika faces deportation to Turkey
27/02/2025
“Political refugee and member of the Community of Squatted Prosfygika, Abdurrahman Kaykan (Apo), is being held at the Attica Foreigners’ Division following an order from the Turkish state to Interpol…
Nine asylum seekers sentenced to lengthy prison terms in half-hour trials on migrant smuggling charges
24/02/2025
In just six hours, Greece’s Single-Member Criminal Appeals Court of Samos sentenced nine asylum seekers to decades-long prison terms on charges of migrant smuggling. Each trial lasted approximately half an…
Deportations a key priority, says Greek Minister of Migration
19/02/2025
The Minister of Migration and Asylum, Nikos Panagiotopoulos, stated today upon leaving the Amygdaleza pre-removal detention centre (PROKEKA) that speeding up and intensifying returns to third countries and countries of…
Pylos shipwreck: The European Commissioner for Human Rights calls on Greece to examine the findings of the Greek Ombudsman
11/02/2025
The European rights chief has urged Greece to review the recent findings of the Ombudsman, which point to the responsibility of eight high-ranking officers of the Hellenic Coast Guard in…
“Democracy without oxygen” – Report exposes deepening rule of law violations in Greece
06/02/2025
A state that does not abide by the laws it passes, institutions operating with impunity, a judiciary that buries high-profile cases or examines them superficially, surveillance of journalists, politicians and…