LCL Quarterly Newsletter: October – December 2023
In the face of a crisis of international humanitarian law and human rights law globally, and the expected implementation of increasingly draconian […]
Category: Access To Asylum
Lesvos regional asylum office forcing displaced Eritreans to change their nationality to Ethiopian
Picture: Sto Nisi, ‘We Never Change Our Nationality’ sign held during a protest organised in the Lesvos CCAC on 6 November 2023 […]
Nonsense of the month: January 2024
Meet Fatima: trying to have a normal life as a refugee in Greece while going through the never-ending renewal process of her […]
New podcast series “Crossing the Aegean” traces the memory of the population exchange between Greece and Turkey
–ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ ΠΑΡΑΚΑΤΩ––TÜRKÇE AŞAĞIDA– Hafıza Merkezi and the Legal Centre Lesvos, in collaboration with Community Peacemaker Teams, have joined forces to envision a […]
ECtHR orders Greece not to remove a group of LCL clients, newly arrived in Lesvos from Türkiye
On 5 December, the Legal Centre Lesvos filed an emergency petition for interim measures to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) […]
Nonsense of the month: December 2023
This month, to illustrate parts of the administrative kafkaesque nightmare faced by migrants going through the asylum procedures in Greece, we would […]
LCL Newsletter Summer 2023
The Summer of 2023 was marked by particularly deadly events at the EU’s external borders, with the massacre of over 600 people […]
New Report: A Pandemic of Abuses
PRESS RELEASE, Mytilene/Athens, Greece [Ελληνικά παρακάτω] New report by the Legal Centre Lesvos and the Feminist Autonomous Centre for research documents how […]
Joint statement against the use of legal loopholes in the EU asylum reform
NGOs call on Member States and European Parliament; Go no lower: reject the use of legal loopholes in EU asylum law reforms […]
Joint Statement: Shutdown of the Greek Asylum Service database leaves hundreds in limbo
JOINT STATEMENT ON THE SHUTDOWN OF THE GREEK ASYLUM SERVICE: Database Leaves People Unable to Claim Asylum and In Limbo By Mobile […]