People who cross the river Evros from Turkey to Greece to seek international protection are arrested by Greek police every day. They are often beaten, robbed and detained in police stations before illegally being sent back across the river. The asylum seekers are moved from the detention sites towards the river bank in police trucks […]
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Frontex’s internal database suggests the EU border agency is involved in illegal pushbacks on a massive scale
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Examining what whistleblowers claim is a new tactic of throwing asylum seekers overboard off Turkish coast
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Using open source to restore some humanity to the death toll of nameless and faceless people in the Poland-Belarus standoff
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Getting the visual evidence that removes the layer of plausible deniability from illegal pushbacks of asylum seekers in the Balkans and Aegean
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Tracing a year in the life of asylum seekers who survived the blaze that destroyed Europe’s largest refugee camp
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The EU borders agency plays a direct role in the Libyan coast guard’s interception operations contrary to previous denials
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Allegations of toxic culture at the EU’s border agency reveal a leadership under investigation over fraud and mismanagement.
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Illegal pushbacks in the Aegean aren’t rogue actions of the Greek national coast guard but operations undertaken with the support or connivance of an emerging EU super agency
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The most violent pushbacks at Europe’s external borders are done by men in balaclavas. Are they vigilantes or clandestine state forces?
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Greek coastguard employing more aggressive tactics in intercepting asylum seekers and towing them back on life rafts towards Turkey
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Encouraged by Erdogan, thousands took to the Pazarkule border gate. But they soon realised they were pawns in a power game
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The death of a Pakistani man during a standoff at the Greek-Turkish border raised serious questions. We consider the evidence
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Documenting a new wave in Greece of extrajudicial deportations overland and at sea, a practice that came to be known as deep pushbacks
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