Immigrant detainees go on ‘hunger strike until freedom’
21/11/2014
More immigrants at Amygdaleza detention centre go on hunger strike to protest against the death of Muhammad Ashfaq, a Pakistani national, and appalling living conditions
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Immigrant΄s shop in Cretan capital goes up in flames [video]
06/11/2014
A mini market owned by a Pakistani immigrant in central Iraklion on the island of Crete was engulfed in flames on Wednesday night. In the amateur footage posted on YouTube,…
Lesvos mayor’s desperate plea for beds and electricity at new migrant detention centre is met with state indifference
14/10/2014
Despite the creation of a new ‘welcome’ centre, immigrants from neighbouring Turkey “are just piled up at Mytilini port and exposed to the elements”
Irregular immigrants launch hunger strike in Corinth in protest of indefinite detention
11/06/2014
Refugees and irregular immigrants imprisoned in the Corinth detention center have launched a hunger strike in protest of government moves to extend their detention indefinitely, despite them having committed no…
US State Department: unprovoked racist attacks are among the most serious human rights abuses in Greece
28/02/2014
The US State department has released its annual report into human rights practices for the year 2013. The report makes clear that by far the main victims of human rights…
Cecilia Malmstroem to Greece: “Pushbacks are illegal”
07/02/2014
MEPs call for responsibility and solidarity after the deadly boat incident involving immigrants near the Greek island Farmakonisi.
"Low quality immigrants" minister plagiarised Wikipedia in his speech
30/01/2014
The minister of Public Protection has stirred controversy yet again by stating that Greece receives ‘bad quality’ immigrants. Yet the minister who is concerned about immigrant’s education levels has no…
Press Review January 27
27/01/2014
The Farmakonisi is just the latest example of immigrant deaths in the Aegean not reported by the press; Americans threaten to launch ΄Zero Dark Thirty΄ style hunt for Xiros in…
Greek tolerance of the brutal treatment of immigrants on our borders is to blame for tragedies like Farmakonisi
24/01/2014
When 200 immigrants disappeared from a border town near the Evros river, no one was held accountable. Today, in the wake of the Farmakonisi tragedy, with the tolerance of Greek…