The LCL is engaged in advocacy and litigation representing migrants who have been subject to systemic state violence and violations of migrants’ human rights as a part of broader, both legalised and clandestine, state policies of border maintenance. In this context we have represented victims of police brutality, torture, and summary expulsions or “pushbacks”. We have also produced extensive reports and legal analysis demonstrating that Greece is engaging in crimes against humanity against migrants.
Aegean Sea Pushback
European Court of Human Rights
Application No. 22146/21
Evros Pushback
H.T. and others v. Greece
European Court of Human Rights
Application No. 4177/21
LCL Publications and Submissions:
- Systematic unaccountability at the EU external borders, Joint Statement by the Legal Centre Lesvos, De:border // migration justice collective, I have Rights Samos, in response to the European Ombudsperson decision on Frontex’s role in search and rescue operations, 8 April 2024.
- European Ombudsperson opens an inquiry into the European Commission’s administration of EU funding used in Greece’s illegal expulsion of migrants, Press release by de:border // migration justice collective, Legal Centre Lesvos, HIAS Greece, Equal Rights Beyond Borders, and Mobile Info Team, 7 december 2023.
- ECtHR orders Greece not to remove a group of LCL clients, newly arrived in Lesvos from Türkiye, December 2023
- Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, December 2022
- Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders in Greece, June 2022
- Crimes Against Humanity in the Aegean, February 2021
- Collective Expulsions Documented in the Aegean Sea, July 2020