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The Pylos massacre
*by The Open Assembly Against Pushbacks Lesvos The text “The Pylos Massacre” was published in Mytilene in August 2023. It was printed in both Greek and English, is available in different languages online and is free of charge. Its use is free for non-commercial purposes. Be sure to look into related published reports for more information. (more languages following…
Pylos scapegoats: The nine shipwreck survivors facing criminal charges in Greece
This article is a collaboration between the newsrooms of Mada Masr (Egypt) and OmniaTV (Greece). One day in summer last year, Saber*, a 32 year old from Sharqiya, was led by authorities to cross the short distance from where he was sitting — on a mattress on the bare concrete floor of a set of fenced storage…
“It was already too late”: Frontex blames the Hellenic Coast Guard for the Pylos shipwreck
*First Published in Solomon Frontex’s internal report on the deadliest shipwreck in recent years, confirms the investigative reports by Solomon and our media partners. The Hellenic Coast Guard was slow to launch the rescue operation and later refused to answer specific questions. The findings of the journalistic investigation into the circumstances that led to the fatal shipwreck…
How They Did It: Investigating the Pylos Shipwreck
by Global Investigative Journalism Netowrk In the early hours of the morning of June 14, 2023, a small fishing trawler carrying hundreds of migrants sank off the coast of Pylos, Greece. Roughly 600 people died in what has become one of the deadliest migrant shipwrecks in recent years. The Hellenic Coast Guard — responsible for search and…
Libya: How a sinking migrant boat’s pleas for help fell on deaf ears
A hotline for boats in distress said it alerted authorities about a sinking boat off the coast of Libya multiple times, but rescue came too late *First Published on Middle East Eye By Katherine Hearst Activists say that state actors failed to respond quickly to a sinking ship that left over 60 people presumed dead off the northern coast of Libya on…
Greece: 6 Months On, No Justice for Pylos Shipwreck (Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch full report)
*First Published on Human Rights Watch 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…
Rights groups decry Greek investigation into migrant shipwreck that left more than 500 dead
*First Published on The Guardian Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International claim that authorities failed to mobilise ‘appropriate resources’, while Greece says the ship’s crew refused assistance Helena Smith in Athens Human rights groups have deplored the lack of progress made by Greek authorities in their investigation into the controversial circumstances in which a migrant ship sank off…
How the Pylos tragedy could have been avoided
A Search and Rescue exercise, carried out just a few weeks after the shipwreck that claimed over 600 lives, raises questions about what the Hellenic Coast Guard did – and mainly did not do – on the evening of June 14, 2023. *First Published on Solomon Stavros Malichudis On the morning of October 25, 2023, at 10:00,…
‘Together for Justice – 6 months since the Pylos shipwreck’: Αn event organised by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, 14 December 2023, Athens.
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 Watch, on…