Latest news from Aegean Migrant Solidarity
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.
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.
The architecture of crimmigration and the Chios tragedy
A recent shipwreck off the coast of Chios island exposes the way deadly border policies are shaped by fear, militarization, and the convergence of criminal and migration law.
How long will we stand by while states kill our people?
Last Tuesday, 3 February, headlines began to appear about yet another shipwreck, this time near Chios. We immediately started searching for information, making phone calls,
Remembering the dead, raising our voices against EU border policies
The 6th of February has become the international day of commemoration for those who have lost their lives at the borders.
Justice for the victims of the Chios Shipwreck
The Greek Coast Guard is yet again implicated in the death at sea of at least 15 migrants off the coast of Chios island.