Joint Statement: Systemic unaccountability at the EU’s external border
Missed opportunities of the European Ombudsperson’s decision on Frontex’s SAR role and obligations in the Aegean region Today, I Have Rights, Legal […]
Category: Border Violence
Eight years of Violence, Discrimination, Segregation, and Exclusion: Anniversary of EU – Turkey Statement
Photo Credit: Sakis Mitrolidis/Agence France-Presse –ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ ΠΑΡΑΚΑΤΩ– –TÜRKÇE AŞAĞIDA– When the EU-Turkey Statement was issued in March 2016, it was roundly denounced […]
The Annual Report of the Recording Mechanism of Incidents of Informal Forced Returns is Out
On 24 January 2024, the Greek National Commission for Human Rights presented its annual report including the findings of the ‘Recording Mechanism […]
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 […]
Informative update on the case of Baris Buyuksu
–ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ ΠΑΡΑΚΑΤΩ– –TÜRKÇE AŞAĞIDA– After months of unsuccessful attempts on various departments of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Greece, as of […]
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) […]
European Ombudsperson opens inquiry into the Commission’s administration of EU funding used in Greece’s illegal expulsion of migrants
Photo Credit: AFP Press Release / 7 December 2023 On 7 November, the European Ombudsman opened an inquiry into the European Commission’s […]
Five months after the Pylos shipwreck, the Hellenic Coast Guard refuses to conduct its own internal investigation
–ΕΛΛΗΝΗΚΑ ΠΑΡΑΚΑΤΩ– Since the tragic Pylos shipwreck of 14 June, civil society, activists and human rights organisations, including the Legal Centre Lesvos, […]
Press Release: Where is the file of Barış Büyüksu?
Featured image: Lawyers from LCL and ÇHD (Vicky Aggelidou and Nergiz Aslan) and the family of Barış Büyüksu attend a press conference […]
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 […]