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...
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...
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...
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...
30 April 2014 A report entitled “Greece: Frontier of hope and fear” published this week by Amnesty International contains new evidence of migrants and refugees being pushed back at the Greek-Turkish border. Amnesty International criticises Greece’s persistent denial...
