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GREECE: Amnesty International report

28 April 2014

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"The sheer volume of credible allegations of push-backs that Amnesty International has been able to document in the last nine months, very much suggests that they are routine: of the 67 people interviewed by Amnesty International over half provided convincing allegations of being push-backed at least once.

Greek migration and asylum policies are intimately tied to processes and policies decided in Brussels. In the last few years the EU has set about constructing an increasingly impenetrable wall around its external borders – both physically, through fences and heightened border surveillance, and legislatively, through migration policies that render legal entry into the EU increasingly difficult for economic migrants and refugees alike. The sealing of the Greece-Turkey border is central to the construction of this new Fortress Europe and its strict policing is very much expected and encouraged by the northern EU member states that are typically the destination of choice for those crossing this border irregularly."

See the full report: Frontier of hope and fear: migrants and refugees pushed back at Europe's border (pdf)

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