We will hold Greece and the EU accountable for the violations of the rights of migrants and refugees fleeing Turkey
Over the last days, violations of the rights of migrants and refugees seeking to access EU territory via Greece have escalated to a new extreme. The conditions for such an escalation have long been in the making. In 2015, the EU introduced the “hotspot” approach, imposing on Italy and Greece the sorting of migrants and refugees arriving on their shores. In March 2016, the EU (...)
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European Union’s complicity in Human rights violations at the Greek-Turkish border
Collective communication
The Greek authority’s announcement to deport exiles to Erdogan’s Turkey or even to their country of origin, without any examination of their situation and their need for protection, is unbearable.
The situation at the Greek-Turkish border is the consequence of the policy of the European Union, which is closing borders, externalising asylum and bargaining with unscrupulous states.
Xenophobia, racism and their normalisation must be opposed everywhere they surface, be it in Turkey, Greece and (...)European Court of Human Rights: Spain and the European Union will prevail the protection of European borders over the right to asylum.
The European Court of Human Right (ECHR) just took a decision in favour of the Spanish authorities, by endorsing the practice known as “hot push-back” of people trying to reach the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla. Although another body of the Court had already condemned Spain in 2017 for this illegal practice, its Grand Chamber decided this time that Spain had not violated the rights of the exiles who had already crossed its border by sending them back to Morocco quickly and widely. (...)
Freedom for Hamza & Mohamed
The European Union must stop the arbitrary incarceration of refugees and migrants
Our work Solidarity statement
We express our solidarity with Hamza Haddi and Mohamed Haddar who are currently being held in pre-trial detention in Komotini, Greece. Both are facing long prison sentences because they are being wrongfully and arbitrarily accused of "smuggling”.
Hamza Haddi and Mohamed Haddar are Moroccan citizens who fled their country searching for protection and better living conditions, Hamza Haddi in particular is a known political activist who was hoping to be granted (...)According to the European Court of Human Rights, all is well in the Greek hotspots
Joint Press Release
The European Court of Human Rights has rejected for the most part the request made on 16 June 2016 by 51 persons (including many minors) from Afghanistan, Syria and Palestine, who were forcibly maintained in a situation of extreme distress in the hotspot of Chios, Greece .
The 51 applicants, supported by our organisations, were identified during an observation mission led by the Gisti in the Greek hotspots in May 2016 . These persons were deprived of their freedom and detained on the (...)