Unmasking Europe’s Shadow Armies
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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Moria: After the Fire
Tracing a year in the life of asylum seekers who survived the blaze that destroyed Europe’s largest refugee camp
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Frontex in the Central Mediterranean
The EU borders agency plays a direct role in the Libyan coast guard’s interception operations contrary to previous denials
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Frontex Chapter III: Agency in Turmoil
Allegations of toxic culture at the EU’s border agency reveal a leadership under investigation over fraud and mismanagement.
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Frontex Chapter II: Complicit in Pushbacks
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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Masked men
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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Pushbacks Chapter two
Greek coastguard employing more aggressive tactics in intercepting asylum seekers and towing them back on life rafts towards Turkey
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Torment in Turkey
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 Killing of Muhammad Gulzar
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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Pushbacks Chapter one
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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