PRO ASYL cate­go­ri­cal­ly oppo­ses plans by the Dutch and pos­si­bly the Ger­man govern­ment to fer­ry asyl­um see­kers from Greece back to Tur­key. “Tur­key is not a safe third coun­try. Through the­se actions, refu­gees’ human rights are effec­tively sus­pen­ded,” says Gün­ter Burk­hardt, PRO ASYL’s mana­ging direc­tor. Tur­key would beco­me “Europe’s refu­gee camp, and the human rights

PRO ASYL calls for immediate humanitarian aid in Greece and legal ways for protection seekers to travel to other European countries

PRO ASYL calls for rescue at sea and coordinated admission of refugees

During the ear­ly hours of 20 Janu­ary 2014, three women and eight child­ren from Afgha­ni­stan died off the coast of the Greek island Farm­a­ko­ni­si. A fishing boat car­ry­ing 27 refu­gees from Afgha­ni­stan and Syria sank while being towed by the Greek Coast Guard. The sur­vi­vors accu­se the Greek Coast Guard of towing them at full

The meeting of EU Justice and Home Affairs Ministers in Luxembourg takes place amid the Syrian refugee crisis. PRO ASYL calls on the Member States to end its shameful apathy and accept refugees.

Reco­ver the boat and the dead – con­sult inter­na­tio­nal experts To com­ple­te­ly elu­ci­da­te the 12 deaths off the island Farm­a­ko­ni­si, the refu­gee boat and the ten miss­ing women and child­ren, which pre­su­ma­b­ly are still insi­de it must be reco­ver­ed imme­dia­te­ly. All infor­ma­ti­on drawn from EUROSUR, mili­ta­ry sur­veil­lan­ce sys­tems, the Tur­ki­sh Coast Guard, the radio traf­fic,

Nine child­ren and three women died when their ves­sel sank near a Greek island ear­ly Mon­day mor­ning while being towed by the Greek Coast Guard. Accor­ding to the sur­vi­vors, the Greek coast guard ves­sel was towing the boat toward the Tur­ki­sh coast at high speed when the boat cap­si­zed. Sur­vi­vors tell that they were crying out

Systematic push backs of refugees in the Aegean Sea, from Greek Islands and at the Greek-Turkish land border

Press Conference on new Pro Asyl report "Pushed Back: Systematic Human Rights Violations against Refugees in the Aegean Sea and at the Greek-Turkish land border" - Brussels, 7 November 2013

AWOL U.S. soldier at the European Court of Justice:
Asylum application of André Shepherd will be heard in Luxemburg