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GREECE: THE COAST GUARD ACCUSED OF TORTURE ACQUITTED

21 Friday Nov 2014

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Coastguards have fun. Hitting an exile, dip his head in the water to the edge of asphyxiation the threat of a weapon by saying we’re going to kill him, put his head in a plastic bag to the limits of suffocation.

Exceptionally, for what happened in 2007 an investigation was conducted, the authors brought to trial and convicted.

The Court of Appeal of Athens has to acquit them, despite evidence and testimony, the victim in a position of accused at the hearing.

In French on the Okeanews website :

http://www.okeanews.fr/20141114-les-avez-embetes-gardes-cote-acquittes-condamnation-torture

 

 

GREECE – ITALY : JOINT CONDEMNATION BY THE ECHR

29 Wednesday Oct 2014

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Les condamnations de la Grèce pour traitement inhumain et dégradant s’additionnent.

Celles d’autres pays pour renvoyer en Grèce aussi. Après la Belgique, l’Italie. Cette fois pour le refoulement d’exilés à la frontière maritime avec la Grèce.

Cet arrêt de la Cour Européenne des Droits de l’Homme s’additionne à d’autres pour remettre en cause la présomption de respect des droits de l’homme par les pays de l’Union européenne. Ce qui questionne à la fois les réadmissions dans le cadre du règlement Dublin III et celles dans le cadre de Schengen et d’autres accords européens.

En français, l’arrêt de la CEDH :

http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/sites/eng/pages/search.aspx?i=001-147287#{%22itemid%22:[%22001-147287%22]}

et son communiqué :

http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/sites/eng/pages/search.aspx#{%22itemid%22:[%22003-4910682-6007008%22]}

Le communiqué en anglais :

http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/sites/eng/pages/search.aspx#{%22itemid%22:[%22003-4910702-6007035%22]}

et sur le site de ECRE :

http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=8e3ebd297b1510becc6d6d690&id=f9a6650abc

 

GREECE: NEW CONDEMNATION BY THE ECHR

23 Thursday Oct 2014

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Greece has again been condemned by the European Court of Human Rights to inhuman and degrading treatment. An Iranian exile was placed and held in detention for six months in inhumane conditions, although he said he wanted to seek asylum, which resulted in psychological problems which led to several suicide attempts.

The judgement (in French):

http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/sites/eng/Pages/search.aspx#{%22fulltext%22:[%22H.H%20v%20Greece%22],%22languageisocode%22:[%22FRA%22],%22respondent%22:[%22GRC%22],%22itemid%22:[%22001-146777%22]}

A presentation (in English) in the ECRE weekly Bulletin:

http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=8e3ebd297b1510becc6d6d690&id=1758f394bc

 

GREECE: NEW CONDEMNATIONS BY THE ECHR

28 Sunday Sep 2014

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Greece has just been condemned by the European Court of Human Rights for the inhuman and degrading conditions in detention centers again.

In one of the two judgments, it emphasizes the excessive length of the continued detention. In the other the fact that the plaintiff, who was seeking asylum, did not in practice access to an appeal against his conditions of detention, and that once released it was left in the street without any material support and without access to the health care system.

Article (in English) in the ECRE Weekly Bulletin:

http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=8e3ebd297b1510becc6d6d690&id=ce8de8fbd1

ECHR decision (in French) for Tatishvili v. Greece:

http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/sites/eng/pages/search.aspx?i=001-145785

ECHR decision (in French) for the FH v. Greece:

http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/sites/eng/pages/search.aspx?i=001-145786

 

GREECE: INHUMANE TREATMENTS ON THE ISLAND OF LESVOS

27 Wednesday Aug 2014

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Witness of the inhumane treatments inflicted to exiles on the island of Lesbos, Youth without borders, Welcome to Europe and Christian peaemaker teams / Mediterranean Project adress an open letter to the authorities (see also http://lesvos.w2eu.net/).

You can dowload the letter here and read it bellow :

 

” Youth without Borders/Jugendliche ohne Grenzen Welcome to Europe w2eu
Christian Peacemaker Teams/Mediterranean Project

Letter of Protest against inhumane treatment of refugees on the Greek island of Lesvos

This letter goes at the same time to:

• the head of the Coast Guard on the island of Lesbos , Manolis MARGOMENOS

• den Polizeichef der Insel Lesbos, Taxiarxos Konstantinos LAGOS

• the mayor of the island of Lesbos, Dimitris VOUNATSOS

• Amnesty International

• Human Rights Watch

• Elena VALENCIANO (S & D, ES), chairman of the Human Rights Committee of the European Parliament

• various media in Germany and Greece

Berlin/Hamburg/Mitilini in august 2014

Dear Madams and Sirs,

we witnessed recently how refugees were exposed after their arrival on the island of Lesbos by an inhumane treatment by the Greek coast guard.

With this letter we are protesting against this approach.

On Wednesday, 06th of August 2014, we planned, as part of our summer camp on the island of Lesbos from Youth Without Borders and Welcome-to-Europe (two anti-racist solidarity networks), to celebrate a party with and for refugees and migrants. We chose as the place for our party the PikPa, an empty children’s camp, which had been converted by activists from Lesbos with the consent of the mayor to a welcome-center for providing the newly arrived refugees a roof over their head, the first legal informations and food. As well on this wednesday refugees from Turkey had arrived and spent the time waiting to be registered by the Greek authorities, in Pikpa. Finally, a Coast Guard bus arrived and about 35 of the refugees should be picked up.

These people, who had crossed the night before the sea between Turkey and the island of Lesvos, – risking their lives in small crowded boat – deserve humane treatment – like anyone else. They are not guilty of any crime. The only “crime that they have committed” is to have fled from their countries by war, violence and hunger. The inhumane nature, in which the Greek coastguard treated the refugees, is the occasion of this letter.

One official of the Greek coastguard, who we know by name, had a handwritten list of names. He roared each of these names in a brusquely and military tone. Expecting that the people screamed at, immediately understand him and put their hands up, he directly became aggressive when this did

not happen. When they reacted to his screaming, they were commanded harshly to enter immediately to the waiting bus. There were 35 degree heat, the bus was designed for 10 people, the windows of the bus were closed. The procedure lasted for more than 30 minutes, during this time the people, who had already got in, had to stay in the unbearable heat in the bus. After almost everyone had entered, he urged them to back off the bus and stand outside. About the background of this approach he let everyone around in the dark. The same procedure was repeated twice: everyone was called, aggressively yelled to immediately enter the bus to wait there, sat in the unbearable heat, was asked to leave the bus, was called back, yelled aggressively etc …. Overall, this procedure lasted more than 2.5 hours. In the bus it was so unbearably hot, that some almost lost consciousness during repeated entry and exit.

On Monday, 11th of August 2014, another group of refugees in a rubber boat was picked up at 6 o’clock in the morning off the island of Lesbos by the Greek coast guard. One of the refugees aboard was seriously injured on his hand by a knife. Another refugee aboard the boat had tried – in panic facing a possible push-back by the Greek Coast Guard – to stab holes in the boat with a knife, hoping it might become unusable and the Coast Guard could only save the people and not pull them with their own boat back into Turkish waters – these push-back take place regularly. The now severely injured young man had intervened because he feared for his life and that of other passengers. He lost a lot of blood and asked in the coming hours again and again for help. He remained like the whole group throughout the day under the control of the Coast Guard, bleeding but without medical care. We found the injured at 9 o’clock at night, 15 hours had passed since the attack. He had a dirty shirt tied around his hand. The blood was dried and the shirt was sticking to the wounds. In the hospital, it was abnalysed that the tendons were cut at several fingers. Due to the complex injury of the young man could not be adequately treated in Mytileni. He was sent to a special clinic in Athens where he had to undergo a two-hour-microsurgical Operation. He was told he would never again be able to move his little finger completely.

The two situations described, the degrading treatment on the one occasion and the non-treatment of serious injuries are obviously no exception. Refugees tell us again and again of such and partly even worse experiences. Especially from the new EU-funded “Reception Center”, a prison near the village of Moria, nearly all released, who we met, reported from everyday degrading treatment by the Greek police. The members of the Greek Coast Guard have acted in both cases under the eyes of many witnesses. When nobody’s looking, the extent of racist violence, exposed to the refugees, is even greater.

With this letter we call to your humanity. The refugees have been on a long dangerous road and have a long journey also in front of them. They are human beings and must be treated like human beings. We appeal to you to respect human rights – especially for refugees.

The systematic violation of human rights must be stopped immediately. Refugees need protection and respect.

Nevroz Duman – Youth without Borders/ Jugendliche ohne Grenzen
Margret Geitner – Welcome to Europe
Sara Ballardini, Ramyar Hassani – Christian Peacemaker Teams/Mediterranean Project

JOG – http://www.jogspace.net; Welcome to Europe – http://www.w2eu.net; Christian Peacemaker Teams/Mediterranean Project – http://www.cpt.org ”

 

GREECE: TWO YEARS OF “XENIOS ZEUS” OPERATION

12 Tuesday Aug 2014

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For two years, the police operation “Xenios Zeus” (meaning “Zeus hospital”) results in controls facies, arrests, investments in detention and various abuses in Athens.

On Okeanews website, an article (in French) reports on the operation and links provide further reading:

http://www.okeanews.fr/20140804-xenios-zeus-2-ans-ratissage-centre-dathenes

 

 

GREECE: CONTINUE THE VIGILANCE

22 Sunday Jun 2014

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In the follow-up to the decision of the European Court of Human Rights MSS v Belgium and Greece, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe noted that Greece still does not meet the European standards of asylum procedure and detention of asylum seekers and migrants, and concludes that must continue to be vigilant and monitor the situation. This decision of the ECHR had played an important role in stopping deportations of asylum seekers to Greece under the Dublin Regulation III (Dublin II at the time).

https://wcd.coe.int/ViewDoc.jsp?id=2199769&Site=CM&BackColorInternet=C3C3C3&BackColorIntranet=EDB021&BackColorLogged=F5D383

 

 

GREECE: ABUSE AND IMPUNITY IN THE POLICE

17 Saturday May 2014

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A report by Amnesty International denounces uncompromising violence by the Greek police, impunity enjoy their authors, and the culture of impunity that this generates. If migrants are a particularly vulnerable target, this violence is also exerted against other marginalized groups such as homosexuals, but also against demonstrators and journalists covering demonstrations. The report also discusses the links between the police and neo-nazi party Golden Dawn, and police practices leading to violations of human rights, for example in the framework of “Operation Zeus hospitable“, which consists in controls racial profiling and foreign mass arrests.

You can download the report here.

 

GREECE: NEW INTERPELLATION FROM AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

03 Saturday May 2014

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In a new report published on April 28, Amnesty International looks at the push-back operations of exiles at the Greek-Turkish border, based on two years of collecting evidence. It also questioned the role of the European Agency for surveillance of external borders, Frontex, in this situation of violation of human rights.

Noting the routine nature of these violations and the lack of response of the Greek authorities to stop them, the association asks the European Union to take sanctions against Greece and Frontex to stop its land and sea operations at the Greek-Turkish border.

The report “Greece: border of hope and fear” can be downloaded here.

 

BULGARIA: VIOLENCE AT THE BORDER AND IN RETENTION

30 Wednesday Apr 2014

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The blog Bordermonitoring Bulgaria reported testimonies from exiled of violence during pushbacks operations at the border (pushback of persons without examining their situation and their possible application for protection is in itself illegal), including children and pregnant women. Also testimonies on violence in detention centers.

http://bordermonitoringbulgaria.wordpress.com/2014/04/25/child-beaten-at-eu-border-brutal-push-backs-continue-in-bulgaria/

Human Rights Watch also recently published a report on what it calls “containment plan”, using both the pushbacks at the border and confinement in detention to deter and dissuade asylum seekers and migrants, especially from Syria.

Download the report here.

 

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