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Border Violence Monitoring Network

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More than 200 Organisations Inhumane Deportation Rules Should be Rejected

On 11 March 2025, the European Commission presented a new proposal for a Return Regulation to replace the current Return Directive. Behind the euphemistic name, the proposal outlines coercive,...

Against Criminalisation

Crete Trials Monitoring - 3 September 2025

Greek version below --- For the first time, trial observers from the Border Violence Monitoring Network (BVMN) attended hearings at the One-Member Appeals Court of Crete seated in Heraklion,...

Against Criminalisation

Crete Trials monitoring - 1 September 2025

Greek version below---Returning to the One-Member Appeals Court of Crete in Chania after the August judicial break, trial observers from the Border Violence Monitoring Network (BVMN) noted once...