In the face of a crisis of international humanitarian law and human rights law globally, and the expected implementation of increasingly draconian anti-migrant policies in Greece, the Legal Centre Lesvos continues its work to fight against border violence, criminalisation of people on the move, and Europe’s inherently discriminatory migration policies. LCL’s October-December 2023 newsletter covers the latest develops and our work, covering the following topics. Our newsletter can be downloaded here, or read below.
- Updates from Lesvos Closed Control Access Centre (CCAC)
- Detention upon arrival, lack of medical access, and restrictions of food distribution
- Lesvos Regional Asylum Office forcing displaced Eritrean nationals to change their nationality to Ethiopian
- Protests in Samos, Leros following the escalation of Israel’s assault on Gaza
- Overview of Legal Centre Lesvos’ work to defend the rights of migrants
- Our legal assistance work in numbers
- Successful appeal decision for an Haitian national
- Collaborations and events to advance migrants’ rights
- Fact-finding missions, conferences and legal seminars to promote human rights
- Challenging border violence
- EU Ombudsperson opens an inquiry into the Commission’s administration of EU funding used in the illegal expulsion of migrants
- Justice for Barış Büyüksu
- Successful interim measures ordering Greece not to remove a group of LCL clients, newly arrived in Lesvos from Turkey
- Continued efforts to fight criminalisation of migrants
- Updates about the investigation into the Pylos shipwreck and the persecution of the Pylos 9