Published : 07-06-2022
A boat carrying 18 illegal migrants, mostly Palestinians, was intercepted off the Greek island of Chios.
The migrants fled to a nearby forest where they were arrested by Greek police and transferred to a quarantine facility.
At the same time, Greek authorities chased down another 28 illegal migrants who reached Rhodes Island.
Seven Palestinians were among a group of migrants who were pushed back to Turkish waters. They have been unaccounted for so far.
Greece has been in the throes of Europe’s biggest migration crisis since 2015, when more than a million asylum seekers, mainly Syrians, streamed into neighboring Turkey, making the crossing into Greece and on to other parts of Europe.
A total of 6,230 pushbacks by Greece took place between January 2020 and May 2021, according to a report by the Border Violence Monitoring Network (BVMN).
A report by Amnesty International published in early June detailed the practices of Greek border forces of violently and illegally detaining groups of refugees and migrants before summarily returning them to Turkey, in a breach of the country’s human rights obligations under EU and international law.
A boat carrying 18 illegal migrants, mostly Palestinians, was intercepted off the Greek island of Chios.
The migrants fled to a nearby forest where they were arrested by Greek police and transferred to a quarantine facility.
At the same time, Greek authorities chased down another 28 illegal migrants who reached Rhodes Island.
Seven Palestinians were among a group of migrants who were pushed back to Turkish waters. They have been unaccounted for so far.
Greece has been in the throes of Europe’s biggest migration crisis since 2015, when more than a million asylum seekers, mainly Syrians, streamed into neighboring Turkey, making the crossing into Greece and on to other parts of Europe.
A total of 6,230 pushbacks by Greece took place between January 2020 and May 2021, according to a report by the Border Violence Monitoring Network (BVMN).
A report by Amnesty International published in early June detailed the practices of Greek border forces of violently and illegally detaining groups of refugees and migrants before summarily returning them to Turkey, in a breach of the country’s human rights obligations under EU and international law.
