PRO ASYL calls for a sus­pen­si­on of returns and a spee­dy dis­tri­bu­ti­on of pro­tec­tion seekers The situa­ti­on of pro­tec­tion see­kers in Greece escala­tes dra­ma­ti­cal­ly. To the EU Minis­ters of Inte­ri­or who are mee­ting in Stock­holm the Vice-Pre­si­dent of the EU Com­mis­si­on, Jac­ques Bar­rot, will pro­po­se a redis­tri­bu­ti­on of pro­tec­tion see­kers from Greece within Euro­pe. PRO

„Whoe­ver sends hundreds of pro­tec­tion-see­kers out on the stor­my open sea wit­hout life­boats is a cri­mi­nal. But also tho­se who try to block res­cue rou­tes to Euro­pe at any cost, share respon­si­bi­li­ty for the death of boat­peo­p­le at sea“, says Karl Kopp, spea­k­er for Euro­pean affairs at PRO ASYL. „Hundreds of deaths off the Liby­an

Appeal to the Euro­pean Par­lia­ment „Stop the death trap at the Euro­pean Borders!“ On the 60th Anni­ver­sa­ry of the Uni­ver­sal Decla­ra­ti­on of Human Rights, PRO ASYL is pre­sen­ting a peti­ti­on to the Euro­pean Par­lia­ment which is addres­sing the most urgent and sad­dest chap­ter of the Euro­pean asyl­um and migra­ti­on poli­cy: the dying of thou­sands at

Human rights pri­ze award­ed by the PRO ASYL Foun­da­ti­on is pre­sen­ted to Mari­an­na Tze­fera­kou and the Greek ‚Group of Lawy­ers for the Rights of Refu­gees and Migrants‚. The PRO ASYL Hand, the human rights pri­ze award­ed by the PRO ASYL Foun­da­ti­on is pre­sen­ted this year to the Athens lawy­er Mari­an­na Tze­fera­kou. In accep­ting this pri­ze,

Refou­le­ment at sea, sys­te­ma­tic maltre­at­ment and inhu­ma­ne detenti­on con­di­ti­ons – Repre­sen­ta­ti­ves of PRO ASYL and the Greek Group of Lawy­ers for the Rights of Refu­gees and Migrants exami­ned on two fact-fin­ding mis­si­ons in July/August and in Octo­ber 2007 the situa­ti­on of refu­gees at the EU exter­nal bor­der in the Aege­an. The fin­dings reve­al serious human rights violations. On

Two migrants dead, two sever­ely inju­red as result of Euro­pean pressure Accor­ding to reports from Moroc­can NGOs, secu­ri­ty forces have fired shots at peo­p­le try­ing to lea­ve the coun­try by boat in the night of July 30/31 in Laâyoune (South Moroc­co). Sup­po­sedly, two refu­gees have died and two more were sever­ly inju­red. In Pro Asyl­’s

The Ger­man Bun­des­tag is expec­ted to vote today on amend­ments to the Immi­gra­ti­on Act. PRO ASYL cri­ti­ci­zes the packa­ge of legis­la­ti­on as an „uncon­sti­tu­tio­nal and iso­la­tio­nist attempt to seal its­elf off from immi­grants and refu­gees.“ The Bun­des­tag, says Gün­ter Burk­hardt, secre­ta­ry of Pro Asyl, is taking a com­pli­ca­ted and legal­ly dubio­us bill and rail­roa­ding it

PRO ASYL cri­ti­ci­zi­ses the Euro­pean poli­ce forces bru­tal depor­ta­ti­on methods and stub­born refu­sal to learn from pre­vious deaths Osa­muy­ia Aik­pit­anhi from Nige­ria, 23 years old, is the latest vic­tim of bru­tal depor­ta­ti­on methods in Euro­pe. His death on June 9th aboard a sche­du­led air­craft of the Spa­nish air­line Ibe­ria demons­tra­tes that Euro­pean poli­ce forces are

PRO ASYL demands a com­pre­hen­si­ve res­cue plan for refugees PRO ASYL calls on the Home Secre­ta­ries of the EU count­ries mee­ting today in Luxem­burg to adopt a com­pre­hen­si­ve res­cue plan for refu­gees. In order to put an end to the deaths of refu­gees on its bor­ders Euro­pe must return to its fun­da­men­tal values and res­to­re

PRO ASYL asks for sanc­tions by the EU and a com­pre­hen­si­ve res­cue plan For three days now, Mal­ta has been idly stan­ding by, wat­ching refu­gees fight­ing for their lives in a tuna net. Mal­ta refu­ses ships with res­cued refu­gees on board. Mal­ta is sys­te­ma­ti­cal­ly arres­t­ing refu­gees and migrants. Last weekend, Mal­ta even denied ent­ry to the