Open Letter On World Refugee Day
Up to 600 People Drown off Pylos Only Days After EU Leaders Agreed to Further Erode the Right to Asylum. Open letter […]
Category: Border Violence
Legal Centre Lesvos Quarterly Report
The beginning of 2023 saw a continuation of persistent border violence which confirms that the European Union and its Member States are […]
Greece’s Pushbacks: New Indisputable Evidence Made Public
New York Times’ Publication Demonstrates With Indisputable Evidence the Modus Operandi of Pushback Operations, Which the Greek Authorities Have Meticulously Been Trying […]
JOINT DECLARATION ON THE 7TH YEAR OF EU-TURKEY STATEMENT
–ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ ΠΑΡΑΚΑΤΩ– –ΤÜRKÇE AŞAĞIDA– March 18 2023 marks the 7th anniversary of the 2016 EU-Turkey Statement. In 2016, Turkey assumed the role […]
Legal Centre Lesvos Quarterly Report: October – December 2022
The newsletter for the current period of October – December 2022 will focus on Legal Centre Lesvos’ ongoing dedication to challenge daily […]
PRESS RELEASE: Forensic reconstruction video released today, evincing the Greek authorities’ illegal expulsion of 200 migrants off the coast of Crete in 2020
Eλληνικά παρακάτω In October 2020, nearly 200 people who had departed from Turkey to seek asylum in the European Union were caught […]
Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture about Pushbacks in the Aegean
Pushbacks in the Aegean are a form of torture Based on its own documentation and reporting, the Legal Centre Lesvos demonstrates in […]
Legal Centre Lesvos Quarterly Report: July – September 2022
As the conditions worsen in Lesvos’ Reception and Identification Center in Lesvos (known as Mavrovouni RIC), the new Closed Controlled Access Center […]
April – June 2022 Quarterly Newsletter
Since the spring, Legal Centre Lesvos’ work continued to be instrumental in preventing illegal pushbacks of unregistered asylum seekers newly arrived on […]
Drift-backs in the Aegean Sea
Over 2 years of systematic and widespread violent attacks against migrants in Greek seas carried out by the Hellenic Coast Guard and […]