Not only are migrants subject to the dangers of fleeing across the ocean in unsafe vessels, they also face the risk of being pushed back into the open waters by Greek authorities.
After an interruption of their trial on March 18, Amir and Razuli will be swallowd back into the prison system in an arbritary show of force.
Greek Minister of Migration opens doors to “real refugees,” while people coming from Middle East and Africa have been warehoused and criminalized for years.
The chain of injustice that Amir and Razuli were confronted with over the last years is continued: arbitrarily arrested, detained, and convicted without any evidence, and now their appeal trial is interrupted.
The two men from Afghanistan were seeking safety in Europe, but were instead arbitrarily convicted to 50 years imprisonment.
Join the Aegean Migrant Solidarity team in conversation with the Legal Centre Lesvos, which has been documenting pushbacks in the Aegean sea and offering legal support to the victims of this practice.
The Greek government celebrates its management of the migration crisis, leaving atrocious human rights violations in its wake.
We stood alongside those with whom we have our disagreements but who share the position that there should be no ‘camps’ because camps are prisons. But we also stood amongst our opposition, those who do not want camps because they can’t stand the people in them.
Pray for an end to crimes against humanity in the Aegean Sea.
Pray for an end to the criminalisation of solidarity.