Europe

Coast Guard ships in the distance

“Border management”: death and criminalisation

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.

A rubber ring lying on a beach

M.H. must be acquitted

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.

People standing outside a courthouse

Justice delayed is justice denied

After eight years, the defendants in one of Europe’s most notorious “criminalisation of solidarity” cases have been acquitted. Although the verdict brings relief, can this really be called justice?

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