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Greece: Illegal detention of asylum seekers in new EU-funded camp is 'gross abuse'Many in camps forced to live in containers, unable to leave the facility and deprived of financial assistance and food
Press release 02 Dec 2021 -
Greece: Trial adjournment leaves 24 humanitarian workers 'in limbo'Sarah Mardini and Seán Binder risk 25 years in prison for helping and defending the rights of refugees
Press release 18 Nov 2021 -
Greece: Aid workers set to stand trial under 'farcical' charges
Sarah Mardini and Seán Binder - search and rescue volunteers risk 25 years in prison for helping refugees
Press release 15 Nov 2021 -
Greece: Fresh evidence of violence against refugees and migrants - new reportGreek border forces are violently and illegally detaining groups of refugees and migrants before forcing them back to Turkey
Press release 23 Jun 2021 -
Urgent Action outcome: PIKPA refugee shelter closed down
The eviction of the PIKPA refugee shelter in Lesvos was carried out in the morning of 30 October.
Urgent action outcomes 26 Nov 2020 -
Greece: Golden Dawn verdicts send 'clear message' on racism and hate speechResponse to a court in Athens convicting seven leaders of the Golden Dawn party of directing a criminal organisation - while convicting 11 other former Golden Dawn MPs of participating in a criminal organisation.
Press release 07 Oct 2020 -
Greece: COVID-19 exposes urgent need to rescue the country's austerity-ravaged health systemNew report outlines how the Government desperately needs to invest in health and social care to rebuild the crumbling system now faced with a pandemic
Press release 28 Apr 2020 -
EU credibility at risk as Brussels holds crisis talks over Greece-Turkey border‘What we are witnessing at the Greece-Turkey border is a crisis of humanity of Europe’s making’ - Eve Geddie
Press release 04 Mar 2020 -
Greece: inhumane asylum measures will put lives at riskGreek authorities temporarily suspend asylum claims from people who enter the country irregularly
Press release 02 Mar 2020 -
Greece: Proposed 'floating wall' will put refugee lives at riskGreek government proposes 1.7 miles of floating dams off coast of Lesvos
Press release 30 Jan 2020 -
Greece: 'Preventable' fire in Moria camp highlights abject failure of governments and EU to protect refugees'With 12,503 people living in a camp designed for 3,000, and with fires previously breaking out in the camp, authorities cannot deny that this tragedy was preventable' - Massimo Moratti
Press release 30 Sep 2019 -
Greece: Newly-amended rape law 'a historic victory' for womenGreece to become ninth out of 31 European countries to recognise that sex without consent is rape.
Press release 06 Jun 2019 -
Greece: Charges against humanitarian workers who saved refugees 'an outrage'‘This case is just the latest example of how authorities are misusing anti-smuggling laws to target activists and criminalise rescue’ - Kondylia Gougou
Press release 04 Dec 2018 -
Greece: 'absurd' people smuggling charges against three NGO volunteers should be droppedPress release 07 May 2018
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Greece: court ruling on asylum-seekers kept on six Aegean islands welcomed‘The authorities must now allow all newly arriving asylum-seekers into mainland Greece’
Press release 18 Apr 2018 -
'How long can we tolerate this situation?' Stories from the Greek islands' refugee camps15,000 people are currently stranded on the islands. They need and deserve hope for a better future. Urge the authorities to take action.
Blog post 02 Feb 2018 -
Greece: New law on gender recognition a 'historic step' for transgender rightsPress release 10 Oct 2017
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Urgent Action good news: Unsafe refugee camps in Greece evacuated
The three refugee camps in the Elliniko area, Athens, were evacuated on 2 June. The majority of refugees and migrants still in the sites were transferred by bus to alternative camps.
Urgent action outcomes 12 Jun 2017 -
Urgent Action: Refugees in Greece at great risk due to unsafe camps
Over a thousand refugees and migrants face uninhabitable and unsafe conditions in three camps in Elliniko, Athens. Women and girls are at risk of sexual and gender-based violence.
Urgent action outcomes 26 Apr 2017 -
Urgent action update: Free Syrian refugee from unlawful detention in GreeceNoori, a 21-year-old Syrian refugee, continues to be unlawfully detained in a police station on the Greek island of Lesvos. He has been in detention since 9 September and is awaiting to find out whether he will be forcibly returned to Turkey under the EU…
Urgent action outcomes 29 Mar 2017
