Author Archives: Tommy Olsen

A sailboat carrying approximately 90 people, all from Afghanistan, is currently drifting 35km south east of Koroni. The boat has lost power on the engine and the person sailing the boat abandoned ship during the night. Report on water entering the boat has been received. People onboard the sailboat needs to be rescued immediately andContinue reading “Sailboat In Distress South East of Koroni”

In the early hours of August 17, a boat carrying 21 people, Palestinian families, arrived on the south west side of Agathonisi. While they group still was disembarking from the boat, a fisherman arrived in a blue fishing boat. They claim that the fishermen sat fire to their boat, if this is true, or theyContinue reading “So Let’s be very clear, again, Mr Mitsotakis, you are most definitely lying”

A sailboat carrying approximately 85 people in distress 26 miles south west of Zakynthos in the Ionian Sea, amongst them over 30 children. The group has been traveling for over four days, and was heading towards Italy when the engine broke down earlier today, and the captain abandon the boat. Now the boat is helplesslyContinue reading “Boat carrying 85 people in distress south west of Zakynthos, 30 of them children”

Monday August 15 a group of 9 people contacted Aegean Boat Report for assistance, after they had arrived on Leros the previous day. The group sent pictures from their hideout on Leros, in an old abandoned building in a remote area of the island. Most likely locals on Leros could recognize the building from theContinue reading “Just Another Pushback”

A boat carrying 19 people arrived south of Tsonia, Lesvos north east at 06.30 on August 12. Immediately after arriving they fled to the hills in the souroundin area to hide from Greek authorities, afraid to he found and pushed back to Turkey. In the group there were 8 children, 5 women and 6 men.Continue reading “8 Children Left Drifting in Life Raft Outside Lesvos”

On Thursday, August 11, we published a case on 18 people arriving in Limani Kapis, Lesvos north. “A boat carrying 18 people, 8 adults and 10 minors, landed north of Limani Kapis, Lesvos north east at 06.00 this morning, one of the new arrivals are pregnant” Unfortunately only 8 of them made it to safety,Continue reading “Pusback Nr 1.486, And Counting”

According to information published by the Turkish coast guard, a group of 12 people was captured on the island of Chios, after they had arrived on a boat from Turkey together with 27 others. Before being forced back out to sea, they were taken to an unknown location, stripped of their belongings and beaten byContinue reading “Three people drowned after being thrown into the sea in handcuffs by Greek Coast Guard”

Over the last three years 38.000 people have been pushed back in the Aegean Sea in 1.500 cases by Greek authorities, despite the mounting evidence against them, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, continue to deny Greek involvement in these atrocities. Evidence is recorded by UN bodies, NGOs and investigative journalists. However, Mitsotakis refuted the everContinue reading “The Life Rafts In The Aegean Sea”

In the early hours of July 8, a group of 29 people arrived north of Pamfila, Lesvos south east. After arriving they tried to hide from Greek police in the surrounding area. The group consisted of Afghan families, amongst them 15 children. The following day, in the afternoon, they contacted Aegean Boat Report for assistance,Continue reading “Pushbacks in Greece Continues While Under Scrutiny”

On 27 June 2022, we at ABR were asked by Greece’s National Transparency Authority to submit evidence relating to 28 pushbacks carried out by uniformed officers of the Greek police and/or coastguard in the Eastern Aegean islands and sea, between 25 March 2020, and 20 May 2021. It is a request we have, after carefulContinue reading “We will not legitimize the NTA as an independent body, by participating in their false investigation”