Press Release

Καθ’ όλη τη διάρκεια του Οκτωβρίου σημειώθηκαν πολλά θανατηφόρα ναυάγια και βίαιες θαλάσσιες αναχαιτίσεις κοντά στη Λέσβο και σε άλλα νησιά του Αιγαίου. Τα περιστατικά αυτά είχαν ως αποτέλεσμα θανάτους που θα μπορούσαν να είχαν αποφευχθεί, αγνοούμενους, καθώς και επιζώντες οι οποίοι έφτασαν στα νησιά σε κατάσταση έντονης ψυχικής δυσφορίας.

By order of the Prosecutor of the Reviewing Court, criminal proceedings are to be brought against four senior officers of the Coast Guard, including its current chief, whose case had been shelved by the prosecutor of the Piraeus Naval Court, and the survivors had lodged an appeal against the shelving.

In a complaint submitted on 11 September, four civil society organisations call on the European Commission to immediately initiate legal proceedings against Greece’s three-month suspension of the right to asylum and immediate deportation applied to people arriving from North Africa by sea.

Ο Μηχανισμός Καταγραφής Περιστατικών Άτυπων Αναγκαστικών Επιστροφών (Μηχανισμός Καταγραφής) που δημιουργήθηκε από την Εθνική Επιτροπή για τα Δικαιώματα του Ανθρώπου (ΕΕΔΑ), προκειμένου να ενισχύσει τα εχέγγυα αντικειμενικότητας και αξιοπιστίας σε αναφορές περιστατικών άτυπων αναγκαστικών επιστροφών από την ελληνική επικράτεια, δημοσιοποιεί την Ετήσια Έκθεσή του για το 2024.

Athens, 14 July 2025 – The Racist Violence Recording Network (the Network) is increasingly concerned by a noticeable shift in public discourse towards xenophobia, racist rhetoric, and diminishing adherence to fundamental principles of the rule of law, in the context of migration and asylum management in the country.

Granting of refugee status to survivors and supplementary criminal investigation. The survivors of the Pylos shipwreck on 14 June 2023, whom we legally represent, along with most other survivors, were finally granted refugee status at the end of 2024, following persistent efforts, and while some of their asylum applications had initially been rejected at the first instance.

Σαφείς ενδείξεις για σοβαρές ποινικές ευθύνες ανώτερων αξιωματικών του Λιμενικού Σώματος – Ανεπίτρεπτη παρέμβαση του Υπουργείου Ναυτιλίας

Even asylum interviews are no longer being conducted
Severe deficiencies in interpretation services over recent months have affected both refugee camps in Greece and the Greek Asylum Service. These gaps now hinder the state’s ability to provide essential services.

On Friday, November 1, 2024, the Single-Member Misdemeanor Court of Mytilene issued a verdict on the events of March 1, 2020, at the port of Thermi on the island of Lesvos, concerning the attack on German photojournalist Michael Trammer and the racially motivated acts of violence against newly arrived refugees.

On Friday 4 October 2024 the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), in line with the Advocate’s General Opinion, ruled that Member States cannot issue a decision rejecting an asylum application as inadmissible on the basis of the concept of a “safe third country” in cases where they have established that the asylum seeker will not be allowed to enter the territory of a country designated as safe.