The Greek hotspots in which exiles are crammed without any protection of their rights or from the pandemic are an example of the precarization of their trajectories by the security policies of States. Migreurop denounces the violence inflicted onto exiles in the name of the “war against the virus”, their unequal treatment with regard to the pandemic, and demands the immediate closure of all spaces of migrant detention in order to ensure their right to be protected.
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EU-Turkey: sharing cynicism
More than ever, on 18 March 2020, at a time when a pandemic is spreading, attacking the most destitute and least protected populations, including migrants in the hotspots, at borders, or locked up in European detention centres, we forcefully express our total rejection of this cynical policy, which is nothing less than a war on migrants.
Four years ago, on 18 March 2016, as the "EU/Turkey" Statement was made public, the European Union (EU) and Turkey embarked on a "dirty deal". In exchange (...)According to the European Court of Human Rights, all is well in the Greek hotspots
Joint Press Release
The European Court of Human Rights has rejected for the most part the request made on 16 June 2016 by 51 persons (including many minors) from Afghanistan, Syria and Palestine, who were forcibly maintained in a situation of extreme distress in the hotspot of Chios, Greece .
The 51 applicants, supported by our organisations, were identified during an observation mission led by the Gisti in the Greek hotspots in May 2016 . These persons were deprived of their freedom and detained on the (...)New kinds of confinement at the borders of the European Union
Proceedings of the Migreurop Conference - Madrid 2019
Since the implementation of the “hotspot approach” by the European Union (EU) in 2015, Migreurop has been decoding its consequences on migrants’ rights in publications and throughout various international meetings (Calais 2015, Rabat 2016). Preventing exiles’ arrivals and criminalizing migration are the aim of this mechanism – which is not new – and it comes with an increase of violence and violations of migrants’ rights within a security policy framework. After five years, what is the situation (...)
The « Moria 35 » trial on the Greek island of Chios: between iniquity and instrumentalisation of justice against exiles
On 28 April 2018, 32 of the 35 migrants prosecuted for arson, rebellion, damage to property, attempted violence and disturbance of public order, received 26-month suspended prison sentences from the court of Chios (Greece) after a four-day trial tainted by many irregularities. They were found guilty of injuring police officers, and were acquitted of all other charges.
Prior to this sentence, the 32 convicted persons spent nine long months in pre-trial detention based on a very questionable (...)