New border crossings into Greece: A revival of the old routes in the Aegean?
Recently the greek news are talking of a revival of the old routes into Greece through the Aegean islands. Since two years Evros has been the main entrance for sans-papiers into Greece with steadily...
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Hungers strike of migrant detainees in Mytilini and racist attacks against...
On Tuesday November 20 some of the migrants detained in Mytilini police station for undocumented entry into Greece through the Turkish border started a hunger strike in order to protest against the...
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Call for Solidarity from Mytilini, Lesvos: New arrivals of refugees / PIKPA...
CALL FOR SOLIDARITY Since yesterday (28.11.12) the civil society has managed to temporarily win the struggle for an open first reception centre with the authorities agreeing to transfer all the...
View Article21 dead migrants found on Lesvos Islands’ coast, two survivors – the rest...
On Saturday 15th December in the early morning hours the coast guard found 18 corpses of migrant men and one survivor in Thermi, Lesvos. Until now 21 corpses have been found, two persons have survived...
View ArticleAccounts of the only survivor of the ship tragedy nearby Lesvos on Friday 14th
The interview was held by Ilias Maravas for EPA Aigaiou I remember that I arrived at the shore. I looked for them but I couldn’t find anyone. Then I remember that I woke up in the hospital. The only...
View ArticleIn Greek migrant camp, refugees find tough road to Europe
By Naomi Kresge It was 6.30 a.m. on a Saturday when Greek Coast Guard Ensign Chrisafis Theofilos’s boat got a report of a migrant drowning off the coast of the island of Lesvos. As dawn began to break,...
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Wall Street Journal: Syrians Find No Refuge in Greece.
By MATINA STEVIS LESVOS, Greece—On this Aegean island’s shores, Syria’s refugee crisis is crashing up against Greece’s migrant-policy mess. Mohamed Simo, a 28-year-old Web designer from Aleppo, Syria,...
View ArticleLesvos: More refugees dying on dangerous routes to asylum in Europe
Another refugee boat with 15 passengers got lost only three months after the tragedy that cost the lives of 21 refugees in December of last year on Lesvos island. Eight Syrian refugees a lost in the...
View ArticleReception centre for unaccompanied minors in Mytilini in danger to be closed
According to the Ombudsman for the Child Greece, Giorgos Moschos, there are currently more than 5.000 unaccompanied minors in Greece but only less than 400 places in specialised reception centres....
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More than 130 refugees exposed to the sun in the port of Lesvos
26 degrees celsius 75 arrivals today; 95 the two days before 26 degrees celsius Despite the positive experience of PIKPA open welcome centre that was opened by the end of last year by the local...
View Articlenew arrivals in the aegean (17.6.-30.6)
Lesvos 28.06.: 21 (13 men, 2 women and 6 minors) 24.06: 42 (30 men, 7 women and 7 minors) 23.6: 33 (23 men, 3 women, 7 minors) 17.6.: 22 (18 men, 3 women, 1 minor) Samos 28.06: 30 22.06: 38 21.6.: 43...
View ArticleNew arrivals of refugees on the Aegean islands April (16-30) and May 2014
1-31. May 2014 31.5. Mytilini 18 refugees and one alleged facilitator were arrested 30.5. Mytilini 48 refugees were arrested 29.5. Limnos 36 refugees and 2 alleged facilitators were arrested 29.5....
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LESVOS: VOICES FROM INSIDE MORIA – THE NEW PAGANI OF TROIKA
‘First reception’ practices of refugees in Greece: The example of Moria on Lesvos island “We didn’t come to Europe to get beaten, insulted and imprisoned.” In September 26th, 2013 the new so called...
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17-year-old Afghan self-injured himself to protest detention in Lesvos
A 17-year-old Afghan self-injured himself to protest against the long detention duration in Moria “first Reception” detention camp in Lesvos, Greece. He has been transferred to the psychiatric clinic...
View ArticlePress Release: Unaccompanied minor severely self-injured himself in Moria...
PRESS RELEASE 21.07.14 Lesvos Unaccompanied minor severely self-injured himself in Moria “first reception” detention centre in Lesvos On 17/7/2014 a 17-year-old Afghan who had been detained for many...
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