
The “new law”: screening, detention, and containment on the North Aegean islands
Greece’s new draft migration law marks an escalation in deterrence, incorporating frontline regions such as Lesvos into an expanded enforcement architecture.

Greece’s new draft migration law marks an escalation in deterrence, incorporating frontline regions such as Lesvos into an expanded enforcement architecture.

CPT Aegean Migrant Solidarity co-publishes a joint statement against the Greek state’s practice of denying access to asylum procedures for those accused of driving migrant boats towards Greece.

While armed conflicts all over the world are increasing, people fleeing war are being killed at sea by the very countries that they are trying

On New Year’s Eve, Haidar Khaled Akhalil embarked from Turkey to Greece. What happened after he landed shows that the danger for migrants does not end after surviving the perilous sea crossing.

CPT Aegean Migrant Solidarity calls for the immediate halt of all plans to construct or operate a new migrant detention centre in Lesvos.

We have built a society like a fortress, where the “other” is no longer a brother or a sister. We have traded our humanity for

A new Annual Trial-Monitoring Report by the Border Violence Monitoring Network and Community Peacemaker Teams documents serious and recurring fair-trial concerns in the prosecution of

Last month started with yet another shipwreck in the Aegean sea. The Hellenic Coast Guard caused it, this time in Chios. Once again we saw the results of the criminalisation of migration and the border violence that accompanies it.

Ten years after the EU-Turkey statement of 18 March 2016, we mark a decade defined by the sustained degradation and dehumanisation of people on the move.

In April 2025, a survivor was charged with causing the shipwreck that killed his wife and child. On Thursday his case will be heard in a Lesvos courtroom.