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Border Violence Monitoring Network

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Our Joint Statement on Greece's suspension of asylum

We strongly condemn the Greek government’s new legislative amendment to suspend the processing of asylum applications for people arriving by sea from North Africa. Against the backdrop...

Against Criminalisation

Crete Trials monitoring - 16 July 2025

Greek version below --- Returning to the One-Member Appeals Court of Crete in Chania just one week after our previous monitoring visit, trial observers from the Border Violence Monitoring Network...

Against Criminalisation

Public instigation and the prohibition of online trial broadcasting: illustrations of a trend to suppress movement and solidarity under the pretext of digital modernisation

One of the recent tendencies reflected in both EU and national legislation of member states is the troubling shift towards more restrictive legislative frameworks, which quite frequently end up...