@elenik.bsky.social
Human Rights, refugee rights, equity and justice, migration, borders, anti-violence & anti-war.
"But if Mahmood's policies actually reduce numbers, she will hope her party will be granted permission to be heard not just on migration but on other policies too."
Using anti-Refugee/ immigration policies
To boost political power, sway the farright voters & the polls...
bbc.com/news/article...
Using anti-Refugee/ immigration policies
To boost political power, sway the farright voters & the polls...
bbc.com/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
bbc.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:27 AM
"But if Mahmood's policies actually reduce numbers, she will hope her party will be granted permission to be heard not just on migration but on other policies too."
Using anti-Refugee/ immigration policies
To boost political power, sway the farright voters & the polls...
bbc.com/news/article...
Using anti-Refugee/ immigration policies
To boost political power, sway the farright voters & the polls...
bbc.com/news/article...
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Following the expiry of the rule of #asylum suspension in #Greece, Refugee Support Aegean (RSA) documents the conditions in #detention centres, procedural gaps, and the arbitrary implementation of the measure.
👉 rsaegean.org/en/suspensio...
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November 13, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Following the expiry of the rule of #asylum suspension in #Greece, Refugee Support Aegean (RSA) documents the conditions in #detention centres, procedural gaps, and the arbitrary implementation of the measure.
👉 rsaegean.org/en/suspensio...
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👉 rsaegean.org/en/suspensio...
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Btw 2020 and 2021 Europol landed enormous volumes of data as a part of three mega-hack operations that dismantled encrypted communication systems. This would become the starting point of the agency's AI ambitions. New investigation out with @giacomoza.bsky.social and @stavinoha.bsky.social
Hungry for data: Inside Europol’s secretive AI programme | Computer Weekly
The EU’s law enforcement agency has been quietly amassing data to feed an ambitious but secretive artificial intelligence development programme that could have far-reaching privacy implications for pe...
www.computerweekly.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Btw 2020 and 2021 Europol landed enormous volumes of data as a part of three mega-hack operations that dismantled encrypted communication systems. This would become the starting point of the agency's AI ambitions. New investigation out with @giacomoza.bsky.social and @stavinoha.bsky.social
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#Greece's Ombudsman on the 2023 deadly #PylosShipwreck: "while criminal charges for several felonies have been brought against the 🇬🇷Coast Guard officers, the competent Ministry insists on abstaining from any disciplinary action, disregarding what the law dictates” #RefugeesGr
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November 11, 2025 at 9:55 AM
#Greece's Ombudsman on the 2023 deadly #PylosShipwreck: "while criminal charges for several felonies have been brought against the 🇬🇷Coast Guard officers, the competent Ministry insists on abstaining from any disciplinary action, disregarding what the law dictates” #RefugeesGr
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🙅♀️ No papers, no protection?
Join us as we launch our new briefing and discuss justice for undocumented survivors of gender-based violence with advocates and frontline experts.
🗓️ 24 Nov
⏰ 1-2 pm CET
✍️ Register on crm.picum.org/civicrm/even...
Join us as we launch our new briefing and discuss justice for undocumented survivors of gender-based violence with advocates and frontline experts.
🗓️ 24 Nov
⏰ 1-2 pm CET
✍️ Register on crm.picum.org/civicrm/even...
November 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
🙅♀️ No papers, no protection?
Join us as we launch our new briefing and discuss justice for undocumented survivors of gender-based violence with advocates and frontline experts.
🗓️ 24 Nov
⏰ 1-2 pm CET
✍️ Register on crm.picum.org/civicrm/even...
Join us as we launch our new briefing and discuss justice for undocumented survivors of gender-based violence with advocates and frontline experts.
🗓️ 24 Nov
⏰ 1-2 pm CET
✍️ Register on crm.picum.org/civicrm/even...
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1/ NEW GUIDE: We’ve just published a new Data Protection Handbook on Asylum and Migration in Europe. ⚠️
Who it is for:
This handbook is for anyone who works in immigration, in asylum, or who advocates for the rights of migrants and asylum seekers.
Who it is for:
This handbook is for anyone who works in immigration, in asylum, or who advocates for the rights of migrants and asylum seekers.
October 31, 2025 at 10:45 AM
1/ NEW GUIDE: We’ve just published a new Data Protection Handbook on Asylum and Migration in Europe. ⚠️
Who it is for:
This handbook is for anyone who works in immigration, in asylum, or who advocates for the rights of migrants and asylum seekers.
Who it is for:
This handbook is for anyone who works in immigration, in asylum, or who advocates for the rights of migrants and asylum seekers.
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EU member states are once again locking horns over asylum policy, reviving old rifts that never truly healed.
EU’s migration dilemma returns as ‘solidarity’ meets political reality
EU member states are once again locking horns over asylum policy, reviving old rifts that never truly healed.
euobserver.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
EU member states are once again locking horns over asylum policy, reviving old rifts that never truly healed.
Tension, fire & arrests at Serres, Greece #migrant facility. 29 people were arrested for causing the incidents (for attempting to escape and disobedience). What is not said is that these people are demonstrating against administrative detention & inhuman conditiins
www.kathimerini.gr/society/5639...
www.kathimerini.gr/society/5639...
Σέρρες: Ενταση, φωτιά και 29 συλλήψεις στη δομή μεταναστών
Οι συγκεντρωθέντες έξω από τα κτίρια διαμονής έβαλαν φωτιά σε ρούχα και άρχισαν να πετούν πέτρες σε αστυνομικούς που έφτασαν στην περιοχή, ενώ κινήθηκαν απειλητικά να ρίξουν την περίφραξη και να διαφύ...
www.kathimerini.gr
November 14, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Tension, fire & arrests at Serres, Greece #migrant facility. 29 people were arrested for causing the incidents (for attempting to escape and disobedience). What is not said is that these people are demonstrating against administrative detention & inhuman conditiins
www.kathimerini.gr/society/5639...
www.kathimerini.gr/society/5639...
"Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Czech Republic will challenge EU over #migration quotas. Hardliners say they will not take in more migrants nor pay compensation for refusal."
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
Four European countries ready to challenge EU on migration rule
Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Czech Republic will challenge EU over migration quotas. Hardliners say they will not take in more migrants nor pay compensation for refusal. A compromise is out of reach ...
www.euronews.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:44 AM
"Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Czech Republic will challenge EU over #migration quotas. Hardliners say they will not take in more migrants nor pay compensation for refusal."
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
Thinking of the many other lawfare cases that 🇬🇷 initiated to criminalize NGO's or individuals who supported #Migrants #Refugees. All were acquitted!
What remained of this lawfare was successful anti-immigration propoganda & the tough policies of punishing Refugees by eleminating available services.
What remained of this lawfare was successful anti-immigration propoganda & the tough policies of punishing Refugees by eleminating available services.
Greece: Authorities must ‘drop baseless charges’ against rescue volunteer Seán Binder
On 4 December, Seán will stand trial for helping people in distress and at risk of drowning at sea. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
On 4 December, Seán will stand trial for helping people in distress and at risk of drowning at sea. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Greece: Authorities must 'drop baseless charges' against rescue volunteer Seán Binder
On 4 December 2025, Seán Binder will stand trial in Greece for his work as a volunteer rescuer helping people in distress and at risk of drowning at sea
www.amnesty.org
November 12, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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EU member states have yet to designate areas where they want to build infrastructure along their external borders to host, detain and possibly deport migrants and prospective asylum seekers.
EU states stall on border sites for migrant detention and deportation facilities
EU member states have yet to designate areas where they want to build infrastructure along their external borders to host, detain and possibly deport migrants and prospective asylum seekers.
euobserver.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:52 PM
EU member states have yet to designate areas where they want to build infrastructure along their external borders to host, detain and possibly deport migrants and prospective asylum seekers.
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Among the charges cited by the court of appeal: manslaughter by negligence in international waters but within Greece's rescue zone, exposure by negligence with legal obligation to rescue people that resulted in death & repeated exposure by omission of other people to danger bbc.com/news/article...
Greek coastguard chief to be prosecuted over deadly migrant shipwreck
Vice Adm Tryfon Kontizas is one of four senior coastguard figures to face manslaughter charges over the 2023 disaster.
bbc.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Among the charges cited by the court of appeal: manslaughter by negligence in international waters but within Greece's rescue zone, exposure by negligence with legal obligation to rescue people that resulted in death & repeated exposure by omission of other people to danger bbc.com/news/article...
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The @icjurists.bsky.social & @theecre.bsky.social submitted comments to the European Committee of Social Rights on the follow-up to ICJ and ECRE v. Greece case
🚨Greece must end detention of migrant and refugee children and adopt measures to comply with children’s rights
👉 www.icj.org/greece-icj-a...
🚨Greece must end detention of migrant and refugee children and adopt measures to comply with children’s rights
👉 www.icj.org/greece-icj-a...
Greece: ICJ and ECRE call the European Committee of Social Rights to ensure Greece’s compliance with migrant and refugee children's rights | ICJ
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and the European Council for Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) have submitted comments to the European Com
www.icj.org
November 6, 2025 at 9:16 AM
The @icjurists.bsky.social & @theecre.bsky.social submitted comments to the European Committee of Social Rights on the follow-up to ICJ and ECRE v. Greece case
🚨Greece must end detention of migrant and refugee children and adopt measures to comply with children’s rights
👉 www.icj.org/greece-icj-a...
🚨Greece must end detention of migrant and refugee children and adopt measures to comply with children’s rights
👉 www.icj.org/greece-icj-a...
🇬🇷 "citizens completely dismantle the government's false claims, as they assess that there is an institutional crisis in the country and that the New Democracy government bears the main responsibility for it."
www.efsyn.gr/politiki/489...
www.efsyn.gr/politiki/489...
Δημοσκόπηση: Υπάρχει κρίση θεσμών και φταίει κυρίως η κυβέρνηση
4 στους 5 πολίτες δεν είναι ικανοποιημένοι από τη λειτουργία της κυβέρνησης • Μεγάλη άνοδος του ποσοστού των αναποφάσιστων στους τελευταίους μήνες.
www.efsyn.gr
November 4, 2025 at 3:13 AM
🇬🇷 "citizens completely dismantle the government's false claims, as they assess that there is an institutional crisis in the country and that the New Democracy government bears the main responsibility for it."
www.efsyn.gr/politiki/489...
www.efsyn.gr/politiki/489...
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#Greece
97% of citizens consider corruption to be “fairly to very widespread”
92% state that they do not trust the media
86% the political parties
71% the judiciary
65% the government
66% the independent authorities.
Can you consider this a failed state?
www.ekathimerini.com/opinion/1285...
97% of citizens consider corruption to be “fairly to very widespread”
92% state that they do not trust the media
86% the political parties
71% the judiciary
65% the government
66% the independent authorities.
Can you consider this a failed state?
www.ekathimerini.com/opinion/1285...
The crisis of trust in institutions is a wake-up call | eKathimerini.com
The recent survey by KAPA Research reveals a disheartening – but at the same time valuable – message for Greek society: 97% of citizens consider corruption to be “fairly to very widespread” in the cou...
www.ekathimerini.com
November 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM
#Greece
97% of citizens consider corruption to be “fairly to very widespread”
92% state that they do not trust the media
86% the political parties
71% the judiciary
65% the government
66% the independent authorities.
Can you consider this a failed state?
www.ekathimerini.com/opinion/1285...
97% of citizens consider corruption to be “fairly to very widespread”
92% state that they do not trust the media
86% the political parties
71% the judiciary
65% the government
66% the independent authorities.
Can you consider this a failed state?
www.ekathimerini.com/opinion/1285...
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New @borderviolence.bsky.social report on the conditions faced by #detained #asylum seekers affected by #suspension of asylum applications in #Amygdaleza #Greece
‘Psychological pressure’ in Amygdaleza: undignified detention conditions and violation of asylum rights
borderviolence.eu/reports/psyc...
‘Psychological pressure’ in Amygdaleza: undignified detention conditions and violation of asylum rights
borderviolence.eu/reports/psyc...
‘Psychological pressure’ in Amygdaleza: undignified detention conditions and violation of asylum rights
Arabic language version below. Greek version to follow soon.Trigger warning: this post contains images depicting unhygienic living conditions, including images of vermin and visible skin infections. Y...
borderviolence.eu
November 3, 2025 at 7:52 AM
New @borderviolence.bsky.social report on the conditions faced by #detained #asylum seekers affected by #suspension of asylum applications in #Amygdaleza #Greece
‘Psychological pressure’ in Amygdaleza: undignified detention conditions and violation of asylum rights
borderviolence.eu/reports/psyc...
‘Psychological pressure’ in Amygdaleza: undignified detention conditions and violation of asylum rights
borderviolence.eu/reports/psyc...
"Who wants to rewrite the Geneva Convention and how the Europe of fear is testing the limits of its humanism."
#Migration #Refugees #HumanRights
#Migration #Refugees #HumanRights
Το Θέμα της «Εφ.Συν.»
📌H ακροδεξιά ρεβάνς κατά των διεθνών συμβάσεων και των ανθρωπίνων δικαιωμάτων που προστατεύουν πρόσφυγες και μετανάστες
👉Ποιοι θέλουν να ξαναγράψουν τη Σύμβαση της Γενεύης και πώς η Ευρώπη του φόβου δοκιμάζει τα όρια του ανθρωπισμού της.
[του Δημήτρη Αγγελίδη]
#PulsEurope
📌H ακροδεξιά ρεβάνς κατά των διεθνών συμβάσεων και των ανθρωπίνων δικαιωμάτων που προστατεύουν πρόσφυγες και μετανάστες
👉Ποιοι θέλουν να ξαναγράψουν τη Σύμβαση της Γενεύης και πώς η Ευρώπη του φόβου δοκιμάζει τα όρια του ανθρωπισμού της.
[του Δημήτρη Αγγελίδη]
#PulsEurope
Το τέλος του ασύλου;
Ποιοι θέλουν να ξαναγράψουν τη Σύμβαση της Γενεύης;
www.efsyn.gr
November 2, 2025 at 3:21 PM
"Who wants to rewrite the Geneva Convention and how the Europe of fear is testing the limits of its humanism."
#Migration #Refugees #HumanRights
#Migration #Refugees #HumanRights
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1/ Ο υπουργός Μετανάστευσης, Θάνος Πλεύρης, υποστήριξε πως θα «απελευθερωθούν» σπίτια όπου διαμένουν πρόσφυγες για τους πολίτες της Αθήνας.
Πρόκειται για μόλις 162 διαμερίσματα σε όλη την Αττική.
wearesolomon.com/el/mag/forma...
Πρόκειται για μόλις 162 διαμερίσματα σε όλη την Αττική.
wearesolomon.com/el/mag/forma...
Επιδόματα, διαμερίσματα, «μενού ξενοδοχείου» - Τα fake news Πλεύρη
Ο υπουργός Μετανάστευσης, Θάνος Πλεύρης, υποστήριξε πως θα «απελευθερωθούν» σπίτια όπου διαμένουν πρόσφυγες για τους πολίτες της Αθήνας. Την ίδια ώρα, δεκάδες χιλιάδες περισσότερα ακίνητα φέρονται να ...
wearesolomon.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:49 PM
1/ Ο υπουργός Μετανάστευσης, Θάνος Πλεύρης, υποστήριξε πως θα «απελευθερωθούν» σπίτια όπου διαμένουν πρόσφυγες για τους πολίτες της Αθήνας.
Πρόκειται για μόλις 162 διαμερίσματα σε όλη την Αττική.
wearesolomon.com/el/mag/forma...
Πρόκειται για μόλις 162 διαμερίσματα σε όλη την Αττική.
wearesolomon.com/el/mag/forma...
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Karystianou whose daughter was killed in #Tempi has emerged as the unlikely figurehead of a wave of protests against the political establishment in #Greece
“Greece has gone off the rails and remains there,” she told POLITICO juxtaposing the train crash&Greek politics
www.politico.eu/article/gree...
“Greece has gone off the rails and remains there,” she told POLITICO juxtaposing the train crash&Greek politics
www.politico.eu/article/gree...
Greeks look to grieving mother in search for a political savior
Maria Karystianou is being touted as the person to shake up Greek politics.
www.politico.eu
October 21, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Karystianou whose daughter was killed in #Tempi has emerged as the unlikely figurehead of a wave of protests against the political establishment in #Greece
“Greece has gone off the rails and remains there,” she told POLITICO juxtaposing the train crash&Greek politics
www.politico.eu/article/gree...
“Greece has gone off the rails and remains there,” she told POLITICO juxtaposing the train crash&Greek politics
www.politico.eu/article/gree...
Law & order is so inverted when the state uses lawfare on humanitarian sea rescuers, but it legally funds Libya to hold human trafficking horror warehouses, so they don't escape by sea.
Six members of an Italian charity which rescues migrants in the Mediterranean Sea have gone on trial in Sicily, accused of aiding illegal immigration
Italian rescuers accused of assisting illegal immigration
Six members of an Italian charity which rescues migrants in the Mediterranean Sea have gone on trial in Sicily, accused of aiding illegal immigration.
www.rte.ie
October 22, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Law & order is so inverted when the state uses lawfare on humanitarian sea rescuers, but it legally funds Libya to hold human trafficking horror warehouses, so they don't escape by sea.
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Greece, where schools are closing and detention centres are opening www.ekathimerini.com/in-depth/soc...
Migration Ministry to introduce form outlining penalties for unfounded asylum applications | eKathimerini.com
Migrants entering Greece will be handed a form stating that they face up to 24 months of administrative detention and criminal penalties of two to five years’ imprisonment if they submit a baseless as...
www.ekathimerini.com
October 20, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Greece, where schools are closing and detention centres are opening www.ekathimerini.com/in-depth/soc...
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I have to say I’m really fucked up by the events of today. I have been interviewing recent arrivals from west Africa and stories include political persecution, people fleeing to protect daughters from FGM, people escaping enslavement in Mauritania.
To think they’re just rounded up? It’s too much.
To think they’re just rounded up? It’s too much.
October 22, 2025 at 12:06 AM
I have to say I’m really fucked up by the events of today. I have been interviewing recent arrivals from west Africa and stories include political persecution, people fleeing to protect daughters from FGM, people escaping enslavement in Mauritania.
To think they’re just rounded up? It’s too much.
To think they’re just rounded up? It’s too much.
"European and ‘Western’ democracies provided diplomatic, political, military, and economic backing through government channels and private corporations.This was an international genocide as much as it was an Israeli one."
If the world is not held to account for the Gaza genocide, its memory will be buried, and from that silence, a brutal dystopia will rise
Accountability for the Gaza genocide? Deny at your peril
If the world is not held to account for the Gaza genocide, its memory will be buried, and from that silence, a brutal dystopia will rise, says Toufic Haddad.
www.newarab.com
October 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
"European and ‘Western’ democracies provided diplomatic, political, military, and economic backing through government channels and private corporations.This was an international genocide as much as it was an Israeli one."
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BREAKING - Justice Delivered: ECtHR condemns Greece for the 2018 #Agathonisi #refugee #shipwreck
The @echr.coe.int delivered a judgment today against #Greece relating to the death of sixteen people in the 2018 shipwreck of Agathonisi.
👉 rsaegean.org/en/ecthr-con...
@proasyl.de
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The @echr.coe.int delivered a judgment today against #Greece relating to the death of sixteen people in the 2018 shipwreck of Agathonisi.
👉 rsaegean.org/en/ecthr-con...
@proasyl.de
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October 14, 2025 at 12:04 PM
BREAKING - Justice Delivered: ECtHR condemns Greece for the 2018 #Agathonisi #refugee #shipwreck
The @echr.coe.int delivered a judgment today against #Greece relating to the death of sixteen people in the 2018 shipwreck of Agathonisi.
👉 rsaegean.org/en/ecthr-con...
@proasyl.de
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The @echr.coe.int delivered a judgment today against #Greece relating to the death of sixteen people in the 2018 shipwreck of Agathonisi.
👉 rsaegean.org/en/ecthr-con...
@proasyl.de
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A torture survivor takes Italy to @echr.coe.int for its failure to cooperate in the investigation by the #ICC of the Libyan official, #Almasri, wanted for crimes against humanity. He was in charge of a Libyan detention center where the applicant was detained.
👉 www.ecchr.eu/pressemittei...
👉 www.ecchr.eu/pressemittei...
October 15, 2025 at 10:26 AM
A torture survivor takes Italy to @echr.coe.int for its failure to cooperate in the investigation by the #ICC of the Libyan official, #Almasri, wanted for crimes against humanity. He was in charge of a Libyan detention center where the applicant was detained.
👉 www.ecchr.eu/pressemittei...
👉 www.ecchr.eu/pressemittei...