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In the morning of August 8, a boat carrying 64 people, 13 of them children, was heading from the Turkish shore towards the Greek island of Rhodes. Deep inside Greek territory waters they were stopped by three men in a black and white RIB, all in black uniforms, carrying guns, their faces covered by masks.Continue reading “Greek Special Forces Involved In Pushback of 13 Children”

In the early hours of July 8, a group of 27 people arrived on the Greek island of Inousses, north east of Chios. The group contacted several organizations to try to get assistance, amongst them Alarmphone and Aegean Boat Report. First contact was at 05.30, they told us that everyone had managed to get safelyContinue reading “8 People Killed After Greek Pushback, Nobody Is Held Accountable”

On the night of Friday 28 June, Aegean Boat Report published an emergency alert regarding a group that had arrived on the uninhabited Greek island of Vatos, north east of Chios, and was in imminent danger of being pushed back by Greek authorities. We immediately published about this group to try to draw attention toContinue reading “Nine Children Forced Into A Life Raft By The Greek Coast Guard, And Abandoned At Sea”

While media pressure is building up against Greek authorities systematic and widespread human rights violations in the Aegean, they continue to leave vulnerable men, women and children helpless drifting in life rafts in the middle of the sea. In the last days, 10 life rafts, carrying 180 people, mostly Afghan nationals, and 60 of themContinue reading “Greek Cost Guard Threw 14 Children Into Life Rafts And Abandoned Them At Sea”

On March 23 2020, 31 people were found drifting in a life raft outside the Greek island of Simi, Dodecanese, Greece. People onboard testified that they had been held captive for two days on the island by Greek authorities, before taken back out to sea and abandoned in a life raft. This was the firstContinue reading “Greece And The EU: Disregard For The Law, And Human Lives”

The European Court of Human Rights will tomorrow, June 4, hear two cases against the Greek government for illegally forcing people back to Turkiye. It is the first time the Court will hear cases against pushbacks carried out by the Greek government, and Aegean Boat Report has played a central role in helping to bringContinue reading “European Court to hear push-back case first documented by ABR”

In the early hours of Thursday May 23, a boat carrying 25 people, amongst them 7 small children, was closing in on the northwestern shore of Samos, north west of Karlovasi. 6 kilometers from land a vessel from the Greek coast guard approached in high speed. From videos we received from people onboard, we canContinue reading “The European Commission Continues to Finance Pushbacks in Greece”

Almost a year ago, on June 26, we posted a video of a group of refugees handcuffed and duct-taped in the back of a van in Kos. The video immediately went viral on social media. The Major of Kos, Theodosis Nikitaras, who is known to have a close connection to the police and coast guardContinue reading “To Theodosis Nikitaras, Mayor of Kos, We Say This:”

In the cover of darkness on March 2, a rubber boat tried to reach the northern shores of Chios, when it was brutally stopped and illegally pushed back by the Greek coast guard. People onboard was robbed of their belongings, brutally beaten, thrown into two life rafts and left helplessly drifting in the middle ofContinue reading “Albanian NATO Vessel Turned A Blind Eye To Brutal Greek Pushback”

At first light on February 19, a boat carrying 37 people, amongst them 13 small children, ended up in distress deep inside Greek waters, south east of Plomari, Lesvos south. First on scene was the Bulgarian coast guard vessel “Balchik”, which is stationed on Lesvos as part of the European Border and Coast Guard AgencyContinue reading “The EU Border Agency Frontex Continues To Support Pushbacks In Greece”