Today the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) published preliminary observations of its visit to detention facilities in Greece from 10 to 19 April 2018. The Committee confirmed the persisting reality of wide disparities in standards across Greece’s...
Last week, the Greek Parliament adopted a law transposing the recast Reception Conditions Directive bringing further amendments to the asylum procedure in order to implement the EU-Turkey statement. Among other changes, the law foresees that in case of “urgent need”,...
Over a thousand people have crossed the Evros river, marking the land border between Turkey and Greece, since March this year. Last week over one hundred people arrived each day and 340 people arrived on Tuesday alone. This has led to concerns from authorities and...
JOINT STATEMENT Greece: Government Defies Court on Asylum Seekers Reinstates Containment Policy That Keeps People Trapped on Islands (Athens, April 25, 2018) – The Greek government’s move on April 20, 2018, overturning a binding court ruling ordering it to end its...
The new Greek Minister of Migration Policy, Dimitris Vitsas, said the authorities recorded a 33% increase in refugee flows from Turkey in the first quarter of 2018, compared to the same period last year. He also announced the government will submit a draft bill at the...
