Tag: Frontex

Ceuta and Melilla: externalised border control, systematic violence

Sep 9, 2021

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Esther Hurst

in Spain

CN: this article contains discussion of xenophobia and violence OPINION Between 17 and 19 May 2021, some 10 000 migrants crossed the border into Spain’s North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla. Morocco had relaxed its border controls in Ceuta in retaliation against Spain’s decision to allow Brahim Gali, a leader of the Polisario Front – a militant organisation opposed…
Monitoring human rights violations in the Aegean: an interview with Mare Liberum

Jun 29, 2021

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by

Georgio Konstandi

in Greece, Turkey

Support Politika News on Patreon. CN: this article contains discussion of anti-refugee violence and trauma INTERVIEW Evidence of human rights violations continue to mount against Greek and Turkish border forces, whilst both the EU’s Frontex border force and NATO are accused of facilitating or ignoring violence against refugees headed for Greece. As the presence of…