08 November 2019
Joint press release from Migreurop, AEDH, ASGI, EuroMed Rights and Gisti.
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"The European Court of Human Rights has rejected for the most part the request made on 16 June 2016 by 51 persons (including many minors) from Afghanistan, Syria and Palestine, who were forcibly maintained in a situation of extreme distress in the hotspot of Chios, Greece [1].
The 51 applicants, supported by our organisations, were identified during an observation mission led by the Gisti in the Greek hotspots in May 2016 [2]. These persons were deprived of their freedom and detained on the island of Chios, which had become an open prison since the implementation of the EU-Turkey Statement of 20 March 2016, just like the neighbouring islands of Lesbos, Leros, Samos and Kos. The requestees invoked the violation of several provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights [3]".
According to the European Court of Human Rights, all is well in the Greek hotspots: Joint Press Release (Migreurop, link)
See ECHR: Judgment (French, pdf)
Human Rights Watch letter to Frontex
Croatia: violence at the border no barrier to Schengen accession
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