Deportations

Humanitarian Governance
/
July 16, 2025
Joint Statement: The unlawful suspension of access to asylum in Greece must be immediately withdrawn
109 organisations call for the immediate withdrawal of the illegal suspension of access to asylum in Greece.

Humanitarian Governance
/
July 11, 2025
The new issue of the Greek Asylum Case Law Report released today provides excerpts from 82 decisions by administrative, civil and criminal courts, the Independent Appeals Committees and the Asylum Service, issued in the first half of 2025.

Refugees & Migrants
/
July 11, 2025

Humanitarian Governance
/
February 24, 2025
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.

Humanitarian Governance
/
February 05, 2025
Clear evidence of serious criminal liability among senior Coast Guard officers – Unacceptable interference by the Ministry of Shipping

Humanitarian Governance
/
October 08, 2024
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.

Humanitarian Governance
/
June 24, 2024
This report draws on information inter alia provided by the Directorate of the Hellenic Police and the General Secretariat for Vulnerable Persons and Institutional Protection (GSVP) of the Ministry on Migration and Asylum, national and international jurisprudence, reports by international, European and national human rights bodies and institutions, international and non-governmental organisations, publicly available data, media information as well as GCR’s observations from practice and information provided by the GCR Legal and Social Unit.

Refugees & Migrants
/
June 18, 2024

Refugees & Migrants
/
January 19, 2024

Humanitarian Governance
/
December 12, 2023