Transportation of #camp residents to cities for essential needs such as medical appointments or registrations and interviews at the Asylum Service is suspended.
The relevant AMIF-funded programme of the RIS remains out of operation.
#refugees #Greece
RSA report: rsaegean.org/en/human-rig...
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📢 #Greece: On October 31 in Exarchia, Athens, the police assaulted a #disabled man, without provocation, using ableist slurs & violence‼️They also attacked others, sitting in bars, in the "context" of a demo passing by. Impunity must end‼️
#Ableism
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New @borderviolence.bsky.social report on the conditions faced by #detained #asylum seekers affected by #suspension of asylum applications in #Amygdaleza #Greece
‘Psychological pressure’ in Amygdaleza: undignified detention conditions and violation of asylum rights
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THIS 👉 “Recent attacks only highlight the importance of work ensuring access to justice and protecting the rights of people who need it most."
📢 #Greece: A Black man was denied a bus ticket despite empty seats, a few days ago. A police officer said to passengers asking why, “For your safety, foreigners travel at night.” The intercity bus director confirmed this racist policy, citing a '14 law to justify the #segregation of #migrants 1/
📢 The #ECtHR prohibited #Greece (again) from deporting 4 Eritrean #RefugeesGr, represented by @rsaegean.org, before they have had access to the asylum procedure. The authorities have refused to register their claims, citing the 3-month suspension of access to asylum.
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#Greece: Ali Faryad, a 46-year-old man from Pakistan, was deliberately misled by a company to board a tanker of 🇬🇷 interests, flying the 🇲🇭flag, & received threats to his life to continue working 10-hour shifts. Greece has been convicted by the #ECtHR for #humantrafficking of #migrants before...
#Greece: Today, 50 migrants will be tried at a Court in Chania, as "smugglers", because they took the helm of the boat at some point during their journey to 🇬🇷. At least 16 of them are young boys who tried to escape the war in Sudan.
#RefugeesGr
4 stories via @omniatv.com:
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At the rate journalists are being killed in Gaza by the Israeli army, there will soon be no one left to keep you informed. In nearly 23 months, at least 210 journalists have been killed by the Israeli army in this territory, according to Reporters Without Borders. The New Arab joins more than..(1/2)
While Gaza has no fuel, electricity, water, or functioning hospitals, Greek shipping companies profit from transporting crude oil in disputed waters off the Gazan shore. #NoNoFuelForGenocide #NoHarbourForGenocide
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Meanwhile people are who are illegally detained in #Sintiki camp close to the Bulgarian border are protesting because they don't have access to food, doctors or clothing and are forced to live in overcrowded containers. 👇🏼
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While clear, compassionate and accurate voices are silenced in the mainstream media. Read here for why the policy is terrible on so many levels: rsaegean.org/en/withdraw-...
Of course we are in a moment when declaring a policy illegal does nothing and can even feed into anti-EU/ECHR sentiment.
"If the Greeks can do it, why can't we?"
GBNews is knowingly misleading audiences in the UK, presenting Greece's illegal suspension of asylum and automatic detention policy as as example to follow.
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🟠 BVMN’s May report is now online.
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This is the first of a series of thematic reports, where we will look into overarching themes affecting people on the move across Europe.
BVMN is against the use of immigration detention in all its forms.
Despite another weekend of racist demonstrations outside #asylum accommodation, some MPs kicked off the week by parroting far-right lies that attribute systemic sexual violence with so-called 'small boats' crossings.
✊ This needs to end. It's time to push back buff.ly/KFkOZbl
British doctor comes back from Gaza and confirms two things we knew: 1- the Israelis *specifically* confiscate formula feed to starve children 2- there is a clear pattern in gun shot wounds pointing to the fact that IDF soldiers are playing games hunting humans.
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Some absolutely brilliant one liners in this.
Greece: no need to steer the boat - seeking asylum is now enough to be criminalized
Greece has officially suspended the right to asylum for people arriving by boat from North Africa. This follows a rise in landings on Crete since the beginning of the year.
PM Mitsotakis declared: “Migrants who enter the country illegally will be arrested and detained.”
The #EU is directly funding this work - helping Greece build more prisons to criminalise people on the move
The contract awarded to the #Greek #Police to deliver this work can be found here 👇🏼
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Greece is planning to build a new pre-removal #detention centre close to #Thessaloniki with an estimated capacity of 400 spaces
It seems the location of the new centre has not been announced but the premises are due to be rented from the Ministry of Defence for 2 years from January 2028 👇🏼
"The Greek ban on people arriving from North Africa from claiming #asylum is a policy as illegal and failed as its 2020 iteration for refugees arriving from Turkey."
Minos Mouzourakis, lawyer at RSA @jacobinmag.bsky.social
✍️@moiralavelle.bsky.social @vedatyeler.com
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We found many shortcomings in the proceedings that jeopardise the principle of a fair trial:
> Inadequate representation: lawyers were assigned on the morning of
> No certified interpreters present
> Mass processing of cases with no individual assessment
1/ Ο νέος υπουργός Μετανάστευσης συγκρίνει το φαγητό στις δομές με φαγητό «ξενοδοχείου».
Εσωτερικά έγγραφα που παρουσιάσαμε στο @wearesolomon.bsky.social δείχνουν ότι στη Σάμο, την καλύτερα χρηματοδοτούμενη δομή, ασυνόδευτα παιδιά κοιμούνταν στο πάτωμα *σε βάρδιες* λόγω έλλειψης υποδομών.
Appalling findings by @rsaegean.org #detention #asylum
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⚫Asylum seekers were held in de-facto detention in Greece for > 2 months last year, including minors for > 6 months
⚫12k pre-removal detention orders against nationals of Syria + Afghanistan, despite no returns happening to these countries
#Greece: "Attention to all #LGBTQIA+ ppl in #Thessaloniki! There is a group arranging meetings through Grindr to set up ambushes & commit violence. They beat one person, already. Be careful, inform friends & stay safe! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️" #homophobia
via @aristotelessr.bsky.social on X:
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📢" #Greece | ‼️A group of 30-40 people from #Somalia #Sudan & #Eritrea have arrived on Chios island & would like to seek asylum.. We call on their.. rescue & safe transfer to a camp.. or hospital"
#RefugeesGr
#StopPushBacks
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In #Italy, there's growing concern over a video of an alleged beating within a detention center for #migrant repatriation.
Opposition parties have demanded an inquiry, while the central police station involved denies that there "was any beating" at all.
There can be no business as usual with a country committing genocide. The EU must SUSPEND the EU-Israel Association Agreement NOW.
EU Ministers of Foreign Affairs & @kajakallas.bsky.social - words are not enough 🧵
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