Approximately 10 officers, including the Hellenic Coast Guard commander and the captain of the ship monitoring the fateful Adrianna vessel, have been called to testify as suspects, according to sources…
The Greek government faces mounting pressure following a BBC report alleging the Coast Guard’s involvement in the deaths of dozens of asylum seekers. Government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis dismissed the BBC’s…
The Hellenic Coast Guard has categorically denied the allegations made in a BBC report accusing Greek Coast Guards of causing the deaths of asylum seekers during illegal pushbacks. The Coast…
According to an analysis by the BBC, over the past three years, at least nine people have been thrown into the sea, among more than 40 migrants who have reportedly…
Four more survivors of the deadly Pylos shipwreck, who were acquitted on May 21, were released on Friday, as reported by the Movement United Against Racism and the Fascist Threat…
On June 4, 2024, lawyers from the Hellenic Refugee Council (HRC) will represent a Turkish refugee in an oral hearing before the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in the…
The court accepted the objections of their lawyers regarding their administrative detention. Despite their acquittal by the Three-member Court of Appeal of Kalamata, five survivors of the deadly Pylos shipwreck…
Not traffickers, nor “illegal immigrants.” The nine scapegoats of the fatal shipwreck on June 14, 2023—nine Egyptians who were wrongfully accused by authorities attempting to impose the criminal anti-immigrant policies…
The Pylos shipwreck is emblematic of the anti-immigration stance of Greece and the EU, marked by the criminalisation and inhumane treatment of asylum seekers within European territories. The approach remains…
The court in Kalamata has acquitted nine refugees charged in connection with the fatal shipwreck off Pylos, ruling the criminal prosecution preposterous and inadmissible.