European Border and Coast Guard Agency

The Aegean Sea is shown from Lesbos. Increasingly, migrants and advocates claim, Greek authorities are illegally pushing back to Turkey people who are making the journey to Greece in the Aegean Sea.

‘People are being abandoned in the middle of the sea’: Claims that Greece pushes back migrants to Turkey are rising

April 14, 2021Refugees

Greek authorities have strongly denied those claims. Evidence and pressure, though, are mounting.

Migrants are brought aboard a Save the Children rescue boat

Inside Italy’s plot to infiltrate migrant rescue boats in the Mediterranean

June 28, 2018Conflict & Justice

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