organization:international federation for human rights

Greek police continues to illegally hand over Turkish asylum seekers to Turkey

On 2 June at 9am, a family of six, including an infant, and three men who wished to apply for international protection in Greece because of persecution in Turkey were handed over by Greek police to a group of masked gunmen. The refoulement was witnessed and the HLHR has in its disposal the license plate numbers of the Greek police van that transferred the asylum seekers. The new refoulement took place in #Evros by boat, near Didymoteicho, and involved Mustafa Can, his wife and their four children, as well as Yılmaz Erdoğan, Fethullah Çatal, and one more man, whose name is still not known.

▻https://www.fidh.org/en/issues/migrants-rights/greek-police-continues-to-illegally-hand-over-turkish-asylum-seekers

#push-back #refoulement #Turquie #Grèce #asile #migrations #réfugiés #Didimoticho
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A report by the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) paints an apocalyptic picture of the media landscape in Greece. Citing as reasons the ‘long standing weakness’ of the mainstream media, the country’s financial crisis and the government’s ‘authoritarian stance’, FIDH found out that free speech and independent journalists in Greece are under attack ▻http://www.thepressproject.net/article/70522/The-hidden-cost-of-austerity-in-Greece-Silencing-dissent-and-indepe