pushbacks | mysite

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.

5 views0 comments

Greek government carries out highest ever number of illegal pushbacks

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki

Oct 11, 20234 min read

Greek government carries out highest ever number of illegal pushbacks

In September this year, the Greek government illegally pushed back the highest ever number of men, women and children arriving in Greece.

36 views0 comments

Pushback proportions, not numbers, fall in August

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki

Sep 8, 20234 min read

Pushback proportions, not numbers, fall in August

Although the proportion of people being illegally pushed back from Greece has fallen, the reason is not what one might expect or hope.

42 views0 comments

'New' government, same abuse of the legal system

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki

Jul 31, 202317 min read

'New' government, same abuse of the legal system

The Greek government is attacking human rights defenders because they are the people's last line of defence of against the Greek government

330 views0 comments

Mitsotakis: shifting blame and attacking those who have human feeling

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki

Jun 21, 20239 min read

Mitsotakis: shifting blame and attacking those who have human feeling

Kiriakos Mitsotakis has caused Greece's worst ever rail and maritime catastrophes. How many people does he want to kill before he resigns?

55 views0 comments

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

278 views0 comments

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.

1,827 views0 comments

Greece, Nea Dimokratia and ‘second chances’

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki

May 24, 202317 min read

Greece, Nea Dimokratia and ‘second chances’

Nea Dimokratia took a far greater lead over SYRIZA than expected on Sunday. But just one in four registered Greek voters voted for it.

52 views0 comments

Lesvos’ turn to revel in ND carnival of lies

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki

May 18, 20238 min read

Lesvos’ turn to revel in ND carnival of lies

Anyone unfortunate enough to be addressed by Nea Dimokratia on its ‘fair’ refugee policy should ask: what happened to our €3.2bn?

64 views0 comments

Mitsotakis, the media and the pushback lie

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki

Apr 14, 202310 min read

Mitsotakis, the media and the pushback lie

Two points are important to make: all the evidence points to the fact that Greece performs pushbacks, and that Mitsotakis lies about them.

102 views0 comments

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

6 views0 comments

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki

Mar 19, 202310 min read

Maria: the (actual) current situation

It seems like a reasonable time - and a vital thing - to update on the current situation surrounding the death of a girl in the Evros river.

138 views0 comments

UN SR: ‘It shouldn’t be a crime to help people. In Greece, it's made to seem like it is.'

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki

Mar 14, 202310 min read

UN SR: ‘It shouldn’t be a crime to help people. In Greece, it's made to seem like it is.'

UN Special Rapporter on Human Rights Defenders, Mary Lawlor, expresses her shock and frustration with Greece in this interview with Koraki.

438 views0 comments

Mitarachis on Hardtalk: a carnival of lies

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki

Mar 10, 202311 min read

Mitarachis on Hardtalk: a carnival of lies

Greece’s Migration Minister Notis Mitarachis’ appearance on the BBC show Hardtalk saw the politician openly lie to two nations' citizens.

64 views0 comments

The situation on Greece’s borders is far worse than even critical reports suggest

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki

Mar 8, 20235 min read

The situation on Greece’s borders is far worse than even critical reports suggest

Horrific though they may be, recent reports about the Greek border officers are sadly underestimates of their true depravity and barbarism.

259 views0 comments

How is Alexandrakis Georgios still in a job?

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki

Feb 28, 20235 min read

How is Alexandrakis Georgios still in a job?

The commander of the Greek Coastguard has drawn unfortunate attention to his litany of avoidable deaths, by lying about NGOs.

90 views0 comments

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.

106 views0 comments

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.

74 views0 comments

Pushbacks, Mitarachis, and the ‘safety’ lie

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki

Feb 11, 20236 min read

Pushbacks, Mitarachis, and the ‘safety’ lie

Despite his claims to the contrary, Mitarachis' pushbacks from Greece are killing people in ever greater number each year.

85 views0 comments

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.

117 views0 comments