The team of defense lawyers for the nine survivors of the Pylos shipwreck invites you to a Press Conference on Thursday, May 16, 2024 at 12:00, at ESIEA (Athens Press Union, 20 Akadimias Street, Athens, 3rd floor). The trial of the nine Egyptian survivors of the deadly shipwreck of Pylos is set for the 21 May 2024,…
Σχεδόν έναν χρόνο μετά τη δολοφονία 600 και πλέον μεταναστ(ρι)ών από το ελληνικό Λιμενικό στην Πύλο, θα ξεκινήσει η δίκη των 9 Αιγυπτίων μεταναστών που είναι προφυλακισμένοι από την ημέρα του ναυαγίου, με κατηγορίες για παράνομη διακίνηση και πρόκληση ναυαγίου. Επειδή είναι η πρώτη δίκη που σχετίζεται με το κρατικό έγκλημα της Πύλου, η δίκη των 9…
*First Published on The Press Project The State Department’s annual report on human rights practices has brought to light a range of concerns regarding Greece’s handling of human rights issues within its borders. The 2023 report offers a critical view of the Greek government, currently led by the Mitsotakis administration, citing various human rights violations, including the…
One year since the wreckship of PylosIt was a crime, it was murder, the drowning of 600 refugees! Tuesday 23 April 7pm, ROMANTSO, 3-5 Anaxagora Street, Omonia Six hundred and fifty families in Pakistan, Egypt, Syria and Palestine mourn the loss of their loved ones who were on board the ship Adriana and ended up at the…
*First Published on Social Europe JOANNE KRUS and GEMMA BIRD 11th April 2024 As the movement of people across the Mediterranean has become securitised, Frontex has come to the fore—not to good effect. The shipwreck near Pylos last June, one of the greatest modern tragedies in Greek waters, claimed more than 600 lives. In its wake, criticism of the operation in Greece of the…
*First Published on Reuters By Renee Maltezou ATHENS, April 5 (Reuters) – Nine Egyptian men who were on board a migrant boat that sank off Greece last year, killing hundreds of people, are to face trial next month, accused of people smuggling, Greek judicial sources said on Friday. The circumstances of the sinking of the Adriana in June…
On Tuesday 21 May 2024, the trial of the 9 defendants (the ‘Pylos 9’) from the shipwreck of the fishing vessel “Adriana”, that occurred on 14 June 2023 in international waters near Pylos, is scheduled to take place before the Three Member Felony Court of Appeals of Kalamata. The nine survivors have been arrested and unjustly accused,…
CORRESPONDENCE – DATE Monday | 26 February 2024CASE OI/3/2023/MHZ – OPENED ON Monday | 24 July 2023 – DECISION ON Monday | 26 February 2024 – INSTITUTION CONCERNED European Border and Coast Guard Agency (No further inquiries justified) Reposted from European Ombudsman Introduction On 14 June 2023 over 600 people drowned in the the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Pylos in Greece, when their boat – a severely overcrowded fishing…
PRESS RELEASE NO. 1/2024 – DATE Wednesday | 28 February 2024 *Reposted from European Ombudsman A European Ombudsman inquiry into Frontex’s role in search and rescue operations has shown that the current rules leave the EU’s Border and Coast Guard Agency unable fully to fulfil its fundamental rights obligations and too reliant on Member States to act when boats carrying migrants…
DECISIONCASE OI/3/2023/MHZ – OPENED ON Monday | 24 July 2023 – DECISION ON Monday | 26 February 2024 – INSTITUTION CONCERNED European Border and Coast Guard Agency (No further inquiries justified) *Reposted from European Ombudsman On 14 June 2023, a fishing vessel (the Adriana) carrying an estimated 750 migrants capsized and sank in international waters off the coast of Pylos, Greece. In the subsequent search and rescue (SAR)…
