Latest news from Aegean Migrant Solidarity
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.
Denial of access to asylum for alleged drivers/facilitators
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.
We will remember them
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
Farewell to Haidar
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.
Call for the immediate halt of Vastria CCAC
CPT Aegean Migrant Solidarity calls for the immediate halt of all plans to construct or operate a new migrant detention centre in Lesvos.
How long will we let fear rule our hearts?
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
New report documents systemic fair-trial concerns in “smuggling” trials in Greece
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
“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.
Ten years of the EU-Turkey deal: a decade of systemic harm
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.