Asylum

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.

Clear evidence of serious criminal liability among senior Coast Guard officers – Unacceptable interference by the Ministry of Shipping

Δεν διεξάγονται πλέον ούτε καν οι συνεντεύξεις ασύλου
Τεράστιες είναι οι ελλείψεις που επικρατούν τους τελευταίους μήνες στην παροχή υπηρεσιών διερμηνείας, τόσο στα προσφυγικά καμπς σε ολόκληρη την ελληνική επικράτεια, όσο και στην Υπηρεσία Ασύλου, και οι οποίες πλέον οδηγούν σε αδυναμία παροχής οφειλόμενων υπηρεσιών εκ μέρους της διοίκησης.

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.