Arrests

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.

109 organisations call for the immediate withdrawal of the illegal suspension of access to asylum in Greece.

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.