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.
Torture and Murder in the Aegean
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:
- ECtHR orders Greece not to remove a group of LCL clients, newly arrived in Lesvos from Türkiye, December 2023
- Reconstruction video of massive 2020 Crete pushback, January 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