Friday Bulletin

On 3 February, off the coast of Chios island, fifteen migrants drowned in the Aegean Sea. Once more, the Greek Coast Guard has questions to

After eight long years of injustice, solidarity won.  The court hearing in Lesvos, on January 15, was convened because twenty-four humanitarian volunteers, who rescued families

As we enter 2026, we are adjusting to a world in flux. Last week the United States invaded Caracas and abducted Venezuela’s president Maduro. He

The PKK-Turkey peace process has been underway since February this year. Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, ordered the PKK to

The CPT Solidarity Raffle has begun! From now until 18 December, you can buy a ticket, support our work, and have the chance to win

As I write this week’s bulletin, a friend is standing trial at Mytilene court in Lesvos, alongside twenty-three others who worked in Search and Rescue

This week marks twenty years since four CPTers were taken captive in Iraq. On 26 November 2005, Norman Kember, Jim Loney, Harmeet Sooden and Tom

On the island of Lesvos, the Greek government is pushing to open a new migrant detention centre – a prison in all but name –

What does it mean to keep memory alive? We wrestle with this question regularly at CPT. Holding on to collective memory – of a comrade

This summer marked ten years since Europe’s so-called refugee crisis. I say “so-called” because the crisis was never about the arrival of migrants – they