Greece: Pushbacks and violence against refugees and migrants are de facto border policy

Greece: Pushbacks and violence against refugees and migrants are de facto border policy  Amnesty International reveals new evidence of torture, ill-treatment and illegal pushbacks of refugees and migrants to Turkey  People apprehended and detained up to 700km away from the border before being transferred and returned at the land border with Turkey  Amnesty calls on the EU border force Frontex to suspend or withdraw its Greek operations  Spokespeople available   Greek border forces are violently and illegally detaining groups of refugees and migrants before summarily returning them to Turkey, in contravention of their human rights obligations under EU and … Continue reading Greece: Pushbacks and violence against refugees and migrants are de facto border policy