EU ministers are set to approve a change to existing law that would essentially allow border guards to decide who has the right to seek asylum
EU Law revision — border guards decide asylum claimants
Tag: borders
Must Britain’s borders be a site of brutality?
Ellis Fox rounds up and critiques the right’s most common arguments against immigration
Schedule 7: How the UK uses anti-terror laws to silence Kurds
British anti-terror police found themselves in the headlines this week after using a controversial power to detain a French publisher at the British border and quiz him about his opposition to the French government. Ernest Moret, who was travelling to the UK for a book fair, has now been released on bail after refusing to
Border management continues to kill people
Report from Are You Syrious?: Borders are dangerous. Borders force people to risk their lives. The 18 people found dead in Bulgaria were forced to risk their lives by those dangerous borders. Need to seek protection, but no visa: what to do? Since the visa system (and the border system in general) follows hierarchical policies,
Evros Border Wall — with or without EU funding
140km. The Evros region, where Greece meets Turkey, and where the EU ends. The existing border structures have largely been created with EU funding, but this hasn’t yet extended to a physical barrier. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has announced that a 140km border wall will be built, whether the EU supports the construction of
Action Against Detention and Deportations (AADD)’s response to death in Manston
Freedom publish a statement from Action Against Detention & Deportations about the tragic death of a man who spent a week incarcerated in Manston detention camp. The Home Office won’t say who the man is, how old he is, where he came from, how he died or provide any other information. We are saddened and
Limbo at Sea — Safe ports in Italy and Malta being refused to NGO rescue ships
Days after first requesting a POS (Port of Safety), with 11 requests now made, Malta and Italy have still not given a positive response to Humanity 1’s request to land. A seven-month-old-baby and 100 unaccompanied minors are amongst those on board. The medical conditions of those on board are serious. One individual was airlifted on
Pushbacks and dehumanisation from Poland: Two reports
Are You Syrious? A man from Syria, treated for a dislocated leg, was pushed back from hospital to the forest at night. The man was taken by ambulance on the afternoon of 1st October and treated at Heinowski hospital. The volunteer who represented both the Egala Association and Grupa Granica went to the hospital to
Special from Greece: Protests on Samos CCAC shed light on procedural violations
AYS: On Monday 5th September, asylum seekers in the EU-funded Closed Control Access Centre (CCAC) on Samos held a protest against their treatment by the Greek authorities. Holding a banner that reads “Samos Camp — There is no Human Rights #saynorejections” the group demanded their human rights be respected, which includes having their claims for
A young sub-Saharan woman killed by Moroccan police
Below, Freedom reproduce an feature from Are You Syrious? Sub-Saharan woman killed after Moroccan authorities opened fire on a group of 35 people on their way to the Canary Islands On 12nd September a woman was killed and three young Moroccans are in a very serious condition after being shot. Other two were run over
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