ECtHR condemns Greece’s detention conditions and lack of support for homeless asylum seekers

18th September 2014 | News

In two separate cases this summer, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) held that the living conditions in several detention centres across Greece amounted to degrading treatment, thus triggering a breach of Article 3 of the European Convention of Human Rights....

Greece continues to indefinitely detain migrants despite Athens Administrative Court ruling the practice unlawful

10th July 2014 | News

11 July 2014 Although the Athens Administrative Court of First Instance ruled on 23 May that indefinite detention of migrants violates national, European and International Law, migrants in detention centres and police stations across the country, including in the...

Monitoring of Greece’s compliance with M.S.S. judgment must continue, says Council of Europe Committee of Ministers

13th June 2014 | News

13.06.2014 The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, in a decision issued on 5 June 2014, remains unconvinced that the Greek asylum system is fully compliant with the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). This decision to continue supervision of...

ICJ & ECRE highlight problems with asylum procedure and detention conditions in Greece in new submission to CoE Committee of Ministers on M.S.S. case

23rd May 2014 | News

23 May 2014 On 22 May 2014, the International Commission of Jurists and the ECRE sent their third joint submission to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe concerning Greece’s implementation of the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights...

MdM and GCR stress the need to ensure access to justice for victims of racist violence in Greece who are undocumented

9th May 2014 | News

09 May 2014 A report by Médecins du Monde (MdM) and the Greek Council for Refugees (GCR) shows that many of  the victims  of racist violence in Greece who were at first willing to report the attacks to the authorities ended up withdrawing their case. Victims decided...