On 5 June 2012, Doros Polycarpou, the Executive Director of Cypriot anti-racist NGO KISA, was acquitted of the charge of rioting during the 2010 Rainbow Festival in Larnaca. This decision is final and is not open for appeal. The judge found the testimonies of the prosecution witnesses to be not credible.
This ruling confirms the view of a wide coalition of international NGOs: the accusations were manifestly false and represented only the most recent in a series of attempts by the Cypriot (...)
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No to the detention of asylum-seekers in the Reception Directive!
Since the Tampere European Council in 1999, the heads of states and governments of the European Union have decided to implement the Common European Asylum System (CEAS). This will first lead to the adoption of common minimum standards, especially with respect to minimum reception conditions for asylum-seekers. The Reception directive was adopted in this context and aims to ensure dignified living standards to asylum-seekers, access to comparable living conditions in all Member states and (...)
BOATS 4 PEOPLE: call for mobilization
Attached call for mobilisation of boats 4 people, disseminate it widely!
Visits campaign : Obstacles to the right to know
Migrant Camps in Europe : Open the doors ! We the right to know!
The reality of administrative detention of foreigners, a familiar instrument of European migration policies, is hidden from civil society and to the media. Such secrecy makes abuses and attacks on human rights both more likely and harder to combat. European citizens have the right to know the consequences of the policies which are put in place in their names.
As part of the civil society campaign “Open Access: open the doors! We have the right to know!”, the networks of Migreurop and (...)Coalition maintains its support to human rights defenders Doros Polycarpou as proceedings go on
On 30 April 2012, after the Judge decided that there is a prima facie case for rioting, against Doros
Polycarpou, KISA’s Executive Director, following the tragic events that took place at the 2010 Rainbow Festival in Larnaca, Cyprus, proceedings go on.
The judge considered that at this stage, the court can only decide about whether the case should be dismissed or not. The conditions for such dismissal were not met, according to the Court. As a consequence, the court decided that the ruling (...)