Asylum seekers should not be sent back to Bulgaria in light of new evidence of severe ill-treatment of Syrians

To prevent refugees from crossing the EU border, Bulgarian border guards use any means: repeatedly asylum seekers were pushed back illegally at the Turkish border. This is the result of a research by our cooperation partner Bordermonitoring Bulgaria (BMB).

The tragedy of the boat people on the MT Salamis continues. According to the will of Maltese and Italian authorities, the refugees should be brought back to the Libyan hell, while the oil on board of the tanker shall be transferred to Malta – as originally intended. PRO ASYL demands the EU to guarantee the reception of the rescued boat people in a safe port in Europe.

A broad social coalition calls for fundamentally new orientation in sharing responsibility

Treated like human cargo - Italy pushes protection seekers back to Greece. PRO ASYL and the Greek Council for Refugees publish report on arbitrary readmissions from Italian ports to Greece.

PRO ASYL and the Greek Council for Refugees publish report on systematic police violence against refugees in the Greek harbor city Patras.

Report from PRO ASYL and Border Monitoring Project Ukraine (BMPU) uncovers systematic exploitation of asylum seekers European refugee policy is responsible for this, too

Report of Border Monitoring Project Ukraine and PRO ASYL shows: Even minors are illegally removed back to Ukraine