Tensions that have been building along the Poland Belarus border for weeks spilt over into violence on Tuesday. Polish border guards used water cannon against migrants on the Belarus side of the frontier. Warsaw says people were armed with gas grenades supplied by Belarus, which they threw over the fences towards Polish guards. Stones and […]
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Water cannon, grenades, pushbacks and fence breaching as tensions escalate on Belarus-Poland border
It Is Time To End Illegal Pushbacks And Abolish Frontex
Above Photo: John Perivolaris / Flickr. Two new campaigns aim to raise awareness about illegal pushbacks on Europe’s borders and call for the abolition of the EU’s border agency Frontex, respectively. The European Union’s border regime has been rapidly expanding in the past years, especially since the so-called “refugee crisis” of 2015, which put migration […]
‘Inhumane treatment’: Turkey accuses Greece of migrant ‘pushbacks’ into Turkish waters
The Greek Coast Guard has been sending illegal migrants stranded on islands in the Aegean back to Turkish territorial waters, Turkey’s Interior Minister has said, accusing Athens of “torture.” The Greek coast guards have been engaged in “torture and inhumane treatment every day,” Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said in a Twitter post, addressing Greek Minister […]