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Dutch plan to return asylum seekers from Greece to Turkey violates international law – Statement

29th January 2016 | News

29 January 2016 Returning asylum seekers from Greece to Turkey, as proposed by the Dutch government this week, violates European and international law. Such unlawful pushback policy is unacceptable and provides no sustainable solution in the long term, ECRE said in a...

AIDA update Greece: asylum system suffers from persisting deficiencies in procedures and reception conditions

27th November 2015 | News

27 November 2015 The updated AIDA report on Greece documents persisting deficiencies in the asylum procedure and reception conditions. Greece, which has seen as many as 715,000 persons arrive on its territory since the beginning of 2015, still suffers from a severe...

ECtHR condemns conditions of detention at Tychero border post in Greece

6th November 2015 | News

6 November 2015 The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that the conditions in which an Iraqi asylum applicant A.Y. was held in detention at the Tychero border post amounted to ‘inhuman and degrading treatment’ which violated Article 3 of the European...

Greece: so close to safety, so far from protection

6th November 2015 | News

6 November 2015 From Wednesday to Sunday last week, over 60 people died in the Aegean Sea in a series of dramatic shipwrecks during the crossing from Turkey to the Greek islands of Lesbos, Samos, Kalymnos and Rhodes. On Wednesday alone, five shipwrecks were reported,...

A highly dysfunctional asylum system in Samos, Greece

9th October 2015 | News

9 October 2015 The Greek Council for Refugees has published a report on Samos, following a border monitoring visit carried out in June 2015. Samos the second main point of arrival of refugees in Greece, having so far registered 51,164 arrivals in 2015. The report...

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