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 […]
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Closure of the Pylos 9 investigation and rejection of requests for additional crucial evidence
Ελληνικα παρακατω On 27 December 2023, the Interrogator Judge closed the investigation of the nine Egyptian survivors of the Pylos shipwreck who […]
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 […]
Free the imprisoned survivors who have been scapegoated for the Pylos massacre
In the early morning hours of 14 June 2023, the overcrowded fishing boat “Adriana” sank in international waters around 50 miles from […]
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 […]
Report on National Intelligence Service’s activities: demonisation of migration as a threat to the country and targeting of human rights organisations
–ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ ΠΑΡΑΚΑΤΩ– PRESS RELEASE REPORT ON NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE SERVICE’S ACTIVITIES: DEMONISATION OF MIGRATION AS A THREAT TO THE COUNTRY AND TARGETING 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 […]