August Report on Rights Violations and Resistance in Lesvos
Freedom from Illegal Detention for Hunger Strikers Moria 35 Update Increase in Raids and Arbitrary Arrests One Year Anniversary of Legal Centre […]
Category: Access To Asylum
July Report on Rights Violations and Resistance in Lesvos
Arbitrary Detention Sparks Protests in Moria and Mytilene Lack of free legal representation on appeal violates refugees’ right to due process Concerns […]
Strasbourg Court halts return of rejected asylum seeker to Turkey
As reported here by the European Council on Refugees and Exiles Strasbourg Court halts return of rejected asylum seeker to Turkey – 30th June […]
Refugee “Voluntarily” Returned from Greece Severely Tortured Upon Arrival in Ethiopia
European policies of exclusion and xenophobia were in the media’s spotlight last year with the implementation of the EU-Turkey Statement, leaving families […]
Amnesty International Chair Arrested in Turkey: How long will EU falsely claim that Turkey is safe for refugees?
On 6 June 2017, the Chair of Amnesty International, Taner Kiliç, was arrested by Turkish authorities. Unfortunately, this arrest is not an […]
Legal Centre Lesvos joins NGOs in Decrying New Policy Limiting Asylum Seekers in Exercising their Right to Appeal
Mytiline, Greece – 15 NGOs urge the Greek Government to immediately reverse the recent policy excluding asylum-seekers on the Greek islands who […]
Syrian Kurds on Hunger Strike in Moria Refugee Camp
Eleven Kurdish Syrians and one Arab Syrian have begun a hunger strike in Moria Refugee Camp in Lesvos, protesting the rejection of […]
Premiere of ‘Inadmissible’ in Science Po Univeristy, Paris
On Friday 14 April members of Legal Centre Lesvos participated in a meeting at Science Po, which featured a documentary prepared by […]
Denying the right to asylum in Greece – in numbers
Why are refugees trying to leave Lesvos & Greece to get to the rest of Europe? These statistics are just one reason. […]
State Council Hearing on Turkey as ‘Safe Third Country’
On 10 March 2017 the State Council, one of the highest courts in Greece which deals with cases concerning administrative law, heard […]