On Tuesday morning, 31 August, a boat carrying 23 people landed south west of Tarti. Immediately after arriving they fled to the woods, hiding from the Greek police, scared that they would be found and returned to Turkey. At 07.20 they contacted Aegean Boat Report for assistance, they asked for help, so that they wouldn’tContinue reading “We Simply Don`t Care”
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14 People Pushed Back From Ikaria
In the morning of August 5, a boat carrying 26 people landed on Paralia Lero beach, Ikaria north. Only 12 people was officially registered as arrived on Ikaria, and transported to Samos. Question is what happened to the rest of this group, police claims they only found 12 people, but locals that was on ParaliaContinue reading “14 People Pushed Back From Ikaria”
Press Release We were originally undecided whether or not to respond to the latest allegations made against us, three other NGOs and six individuals two days ago (Monday 19 July 2021). But having been named as an organisation in yesterday’s Kathimerini – a decision that newspaper would only have made having been given our nameContinue reading
We Must All End The Greek Government’s Abuse of Human Rights
The Greek government’s astonishing and unacceptable violation of human rights continues unabated, as the treatment of two more groups of vulnerable people seeking safety in the EU shows. In the early hours of 2 July, two boats arrived on the Greek Aegean island of Lesvos, one in the north close to Chapel carrying 10 people,Continue reading “We Must All End The Greek Government’s Abuse of Human Rights”
Greek Coast Guard Abandons New-Born Baby At Sea
Ten men, women and children, including a new-born baby, were held at gunpoint and stripped of their possessions by Greek police, before being forced into an engineless rubber boat and set adrift on the Aegean Sea, in the Greek government’s latest clear violation of international law and decent human behaviour. On 4 July, Aegean BoatContinue reading “Greek Coast Guard Abandons New-Born Baby At Sea”
“I Reject The Pushbac Concept”
On June 26 Aegean Boat Report published a report on 61 people that was stranded on the small rocky island of Fragkos, south west of Lipsi. What happened to this group have until now been somewhat unclear, but we assumed that they had been illegally returned to Turkey by the Hellenic coast guard, no arrivalsContinue reading ““I Reject The Pushbac Concept””
Human Rights in Europe are at a crossroads
The video you are about to watch is of an illegal pushback carried out by the Greek coastguard. It is not a ‘one-off’. It did not take place six, twelve or eighteen months ago, and now things are better. It was just one of 491 incidents since March 2020, in which 14,720 men, women andContinue reading “Human Rights in Europe are at a crossroads”
Pushback Nr. 460
4 of June at 02.00 a boat carrying 44 people, many of them very small children, started out from Sazli, Turkey, heading towards Lesvos north. The trip lasted for five hours, people onboard was afraid that the Greek coast guard would find them at sea and push them back, especially after first light, but luckilyContinue reading “Pushback Nr. 460”
Pushback Nr. 451
On May 28, at around 6am, a boat that was reported to have been carrying 54 people, 37 adults and 17 children, landed north of Panagiouda, Lesvos south around 06.00. It later became clear that in fact the boat had been carrying 49 people. Immediately after arrival, they split into two groups and hid inContinue reading “Pushback Nr. 451”
The illegal Practice Continues
In the early hours of Sunday 16 May, a rubber boat set out from Cumhuriyet, Seferihisar, Turkey, carrying 32 people, nine children, seven women and 16 men. After several hours at sea, they approached the island of Samos. In the videos they sent us, we can clearly see Samos in the background. While approaching theContinue reading “The illegal Practice Continues”