Aegean Migrant Solidarity

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?

People standing outside a courthouse

Saving lives is not a crime 

A decade ago, in the summer of 2015, the Greek island of Lesvos became the epicenter of Europe’s “refugee crisis.” Images of local residents doing

migrants wearing orange life jackets disembark off a boat in the aegean sea

Prayer for Crete

Those who now reach the shores of Crete in small and fragile boats come because Europe offers no safe or legal way to seek asylum,

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More than 200 organisations: inhumane deportation rules should be rejected

On 11 March 2025, the European Commission presented a new proposal for a Return Regulation to replace the current Return Directive. Behind the euphemistic name, the proposal outlines coercive, traumatising, and rights-violating measures premised on an imperative of increasing deportation rates. Instead of focusing on protection, housing, healthcare and education, the Regulation is premised on punitive policies, detention centres, deportation and enforcement.  

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