Due to the launch of a new BVMN website, testimonies collected in February are yet to be published online, and will appear in a glossary in the March monthly report instead. This report brings together first-hand testimonies from a range of countries in the region to look at the way European Union states and other actors are perpetuating systemic violence towards people crossing borders.

BVMN is a network of watchdog organisations active in the Balkans and Greece including No Name Kitchen, Rigardu, Are You Syrious, Mobile Info Team, InfoKolpa, Collective Aid, Blindspots, Pushback Alarmphone Austria, I Have Rights and PIC. Combining insights from these different members, this month’s report covers, among other things:

– Updates from Rijeka and Lipa camp
– Frontex presence in Serbia
– Systematic Use of Immigration Detention in Greece
– Mass arrests of people on the move in Thessaloniki
– Frontex fundamental rights officer recommends ceasing operations in Greece
– Update from Patras
– Earthquake in Turkey/Syria: ongoing effects
– Shipwreck in Calabria