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Greece: 6 Months On, No Justice for Pylos Shipwreck Authorities Need to Learn Lessons to Avert Future Deaths at Sea (Athens) – Official investigations into credible allegations that the Hellenic Coast Guard’s actions and omissions contributed to the catastrophic shipwreck and loss of life off Pylos, Greece six months ago have made little meaningful progress, Amnesty International…
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Authorities Need to Learn Lessons to Avert Future Deaths at Sea Official investigations into credible allegations that the Hellenic Coast Guard’s actions and omissions contributed to the catastrophic shipwreck and loss of life off Pylos, Greece six months ago have made little meaningful progress, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today. The Adriana, a severely overcrowded…
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*reposted from Human Rights Watch (Athens) – Official investigations into credible allegations that the Hellenic Coast Guard’s actions and omissions contributed to the catastrophic shipwreck and loss of life off Pylos, Greece six months ago have made little meaningful progress, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today. The Adriana, a severely overcrowded fishing trawler, capsized in the early…
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Together for Justice 6 months since the Pylos shipwreck “All we care about is that the world knows what happened.” – Walid*, a young Egyptian shipwreck survivor. *pseudonym We would like to invite you and colleagues to ‘Together for Justice – 6 months since the Pylos shipwreck’, an event organised by Amnesty International and Human Rights…
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*reposted from Legal Centre LesvosSince the tragic Pylos shipwreck of 14 June, civil society, activists and human rights organisations, including the Legal Centre Lesvos, have repeatedly called the Greek authorities for a transparent and independent investigation into the circumstances of the tragedy. Several protests and marches were also spontaneously organised around Greece, such as in Athens, Thessaloniki and Lesvos in support of…
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*First Published on Initiative of Lawyers and Jurists for the shipwreck of Pylos Update on the progress of the judicial investigation into the deadly Pylos shipwreck (1/11/2023) As already known, on 13 September 2023, 40 survivors of the deadly shipwreck, which took place off the coast of Pylos on 14 June 2023, filed a criminal…
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Survivors demand an effective investigation *reposted from Refugee Support Aegean Athens, September 14, 2023: Forty survivors of the deadly shipwreck in Pylos filed yesterday a criminal complaint against all responsible parties before the Naval Court of Piraeus. The survivors, represented by the Network for Refugee and Migrant Rights, the Hellenic League for Human Rights (HLHR), the…
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Forty survivors are part of the suit alleging Greek authorities failed to protect the lives of those on the fishing boat that capsized in June, killing hundreds. By Katy Fallon *First Published on Al Jazeera Athens, Greece – Three months after one of the deadliest shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea in recent years, a lawsuit has been…
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Questions to the Coast Guard regarding the posting of dozens of rescue videos after the shipwreck off Pylos According to the spokesperson of the Hellenic Coast Guard, Mr. N. Alexiou, concerning the deadly and criminal shipwreck off Pylos on June 14, 2023, “at the time of the sinking, there was no possibility of recording” (statements…
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Starkly divergent accounts from survivors and Greek authorities around the circumstances of the deadly Pylos shipwreck, underscore the urgent need for an effective, independent, and impartial investigation, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today. The disparities between survivors’ accounts of the Pylos shipwreck and the authorities’ version of the events are extremely concerning The…