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Pushbacks: Together Magazine, December 2023

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki

Feb 291 min read

Pushbacks: Together Magazine, December 2023

Our article Pushbacks, in Finland's Together magazine, highlighting the Greek government's vicious and illegal anti-refugee campaign.

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EU must abandon plans to wreck, end, human lives

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki

Aug 2, 202312 min read

EU must abandon plans to wreck, end, human lives

The EU has agreed two of the worst 'migration initiatives' in human history. Both must be abandoned, as they will kill people seeking safety

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Seven days from the Pylos catastrophe: lies, persecution and protest

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki

Jun 22, 202327 min read

Seven days from the Pylos catastrophe: lies, persecution and protest

Several updates from the week following the Pylos catastrophe: the Greek government running from responsibility, the law and human decency.

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Pylos: an unfolding catastrophe in which 650 deaths are still largely ignored

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki

Jun 16, 20237 min read

Pylos: an unfolding catastrophe in which 650 deaths are still largely ignored

A note which includes the fact that the Greek Coastguard may have actively killed 650 men, women and children, and on what pushbacks are for

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Greece, Italy, ‘Eastern Libya’ and the EU: killers of 650 people

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki

Jun 14, 202310 min read

Greece, Italy, ‘Eastern Libya’ and the EU: killers of 650 people

Greece, Italy, 'Eastern Libya' and the EU are responsible for killing 650 men, women and children today. We should not pretend they are not.

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Fatmata. A woman not killed ‘by accident’

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki

Apr 25, 20237 min read

Fatmata. A woman not killed ‘by accident’

The woman killed on Greece's border with N. Macedonia was Fatmata. She was 23. She was not killed 'by accident'. And this has to stop.

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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki

Apr 20, 20233 min read

It is time to stop

A woman was shot dead on Wednesday for trying to find a safe place to live. It is time to stop.

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SYRIZA cannot govern Greece by running from reality

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki

Apr 7, 20237 min read

SYRIZA cannot govern Greece by running from reality

SYRIZA's latest comment on refugees is worse than anything Nea Dimokratia has said. If the party wishes to govern, it must find some courage

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The EU must stop funding states which break international law

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki

Apr 6, 20236 min read

The EU must stop funding states which break international law

Greece's plan to spend EU cash on illegally operating a border wall underlines the bloc's need to stop all funding to law-breaking members.

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Δεν μπορώ να δεχτώ τη μετατροπή της αλληλεγγύης σε αδίκημα

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki

Mar 19, 20236 min read

Δεν μπορώ να δεχτώ τη μετατροπή της αλληλεγγύης σε αδίκημα

The Greek version of our interview with UN Speecial Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders Mary Lawlor, published in EFSYN on 18 March 2023.

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Calabria: the outcome of years of breaking the law

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki

Feb 27, 202315 min read

Calabria: the outcome of years of breaking the law

The death of at least 62 people at Calabria is the outcome of the EU breaking the law: the solution is simple. Obey the law.

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Distraction and Dishonesty: Greece’s Migration Ministry and its distant relationship with truth

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki

Feb 20, 202314 min read

Distraction and Dishonesty: Greece’s Migration Ministry and its distant relationship with truth

The Greek Migration Ministry's response to the New York Times is a mix of the irrelevant and the untrue. We deserve better.

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Illegal discrimination and detention – the EU and the Greek government on new arrivals

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki

Feb 10, 20239 min read

Illegal discrimination and detention – the EU and the Greek government on new arrivals

The EU Commission is correct that Greece is breaking international law. But its own plans must also be opposed for the good of all humanity.

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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki

Jan 30, 202313 min read

‘A wall’, or ‘The collapse of the law’

The Greek government, backed by the EU and a UK ever closer to being a rogue state, is boasting about assaulting the law and human decency.

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2022 Summary: Pushbacks: the facts, and the realities behind them.

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki

Jan 22, 202312 min read

2022 Summary: Pushbacks: the facts, and the realities behind them.

Our 2022 report reveals that the numnber of pushbacks from Greece is likely far higher than previously believed, and why this is a disaster.

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CNN wastes opportunity to speak to Mitarachis

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki

Oct 14, 20225 min read

CNN wastes opportunity to speak to Mitarachis

When a country's government is as limited and unpleasant as Greece's, it needs its journalists to step up. CNN Greece failed to do so.

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OLAF publication indicates catastrophe for Frontex, Greece, EU Commission

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki

Oct 14, 20226 min read

OLAF publication indicates catastrophe for Frontex, Greece, EU Commission

The Olaf Report has been published. How is Greek Migration Miniser Notis Mitarachis still in a job? How is he not facing trial?

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Mitsotakis disgraces Greece with joke about dead five-year-old girl

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki

Aug 29, 202210 min read

Mitsotakis disgraces Greece with joke about dead five-year-old girl

Greek Prime Minister Kiriakos Mitsotakis has brought shame on his office and his country by joking about the death of a five-year-old girl.

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Josoor: human rights and human safety unravel before our eyes

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki

Aug 17, 20226 min read

Josoor: human rights and human safety unravel before our eyes

The closure of Josoor points to some stark, disturbing truths. We are watcing human rights and human safety be snatched away by governments.

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Ms. Baerbock: we already had the investigation. It is now time to act

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki

Jul 30, 20225 min read

Ms. Baerbock: we already had the investigation. It is now time to act

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock wants an 'investigation' into the Greek government's barbaric pushbacks. We have already had it.

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