Author Archives: Tommy Olsen

After dark on Monday November 20 a rubber boat carrying 17 Afghans, six of them small children, sat out from Turkey towards the Greek island of Lesvos. They hoped that they would reach the island within a few hours, in the cover of darkness, that the Greek coast guard and Frontex, who are guarding theContinue reading “The Refuge Hunt In The Aegean Sea Continues”

In the early morning of Monday November 13, at 07.30, a boat carrying 23 afghans, mostly families with children, was stopped 100 meters from land east of Korakas, Lesvos north by a vessel from the Greek coast guard. In the video, that was taken by one of the passengers, we can clearly see the cliffsContinue reading “23 Afghans Beaten, Tortured and Pushed Back Outside Lesvos”

For three months people arriving on the Greek Aegean islands have been allowed to stay, pushbacks from land stopped, life rafts almost disappeared from the Aegean Sea, the situation was seemingly getting better. This is at least what Greek authorities wanted everyone to believe, the facts tells a different story, and it’s about to goContinue reading “Human Rights Violations Skyrocketing in Greece, But Do We Really Care?”

On June 26 we published a disturbing video from Kos showing 14 people trapped and gagged in the back of a van, this is what we published. The video went viral the moment it was published, viewed on Twitter by over 500.000 people the first day, it created a lot of attention, and by someContinue reading “Refugees Beaten, Handcuffed and Eyes Taped Shut on Kos”

Since 1 March 2020, the Greek government’s main response to refugees arriving on Greek islands has been to send masked men to hunt them down, arrest, rob, and in some cases rape or otherwise sexually abuse them, before forcing them back to the sea, leaving them to drift helplessly in life rafts. The systematic violationContinue reading “Change at last in Greek border activity. But will it last?”

On May 19, only four days after the shocking video was published in The New York Times showing Greek authorities pushing back 12 people from Lesvos, 96 people was lefts drifting in 4 life rafts in the middle of the sea. No journalist or EU politician has mentioned them with a single word, no article,Continue reading “Pushbacks Continues Unhindered in Greece Despite Warnings from Brussels”

Just after midnight on Tuesday we reported about a boat in distress inside Greek waters east of Samos, Greek coast guard finally rescued the boat and towed it toward Samos, but her all trace of the people onboard and the boat ends, because they never arrived on Samos. The boat we reported on had atContinue reading “What started as a rescue operation outside Samos, ended up as a pushback”

On Saturday March 25, we published about a sailboat south of Crete in distress, Greek coast guard refused to comment on the incident, now we know why. Earlier the same day, Alarm Phone published about the same sailboat in distress, together with a video showing that the Greek coast guard was on location. According toContinue reading “59 People Pushed Back From Crete”

On February 9, at 21.42(EET), Aegean Boat Report was contacted by a person claiming to be in distress at sea in a rubber boat with a malfunctioning engine, drifting outside the Greek island of Lesvos in bad weather conditions together with 44 other people. At first this person was, due to bad cell phone receptionContinue reading “Boat In Distress Called 112, After Arriving On Land Greek Authorities Pushed Them Back”

The tragic shipwreck on Lesvos on the morning of Tuesday February 7 claimed three lives, two women and one man. A boat, reported to be carrying 41 people, ran into cliffs on their way in towards shore on Lesvos, 39 people was eventually rescued and 3 people died. According to survivors, the smugglers told themContinue reading “Pushed Back Under Extreme Weather Conditions”