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Border Violence Monitoring Network

@borderviolence.bsky.social
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Network of grassroots organizations documenting illegal pushbacks & police violence by EU member state authorities in the Western Balkans and Greece.

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Ptrr 🍉 @ptrrt.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
We've been working on this in close collaboration with activists and humanitarian organisations for almost two years. On 8 September, roughly five years since it began, we launch The Death Zone, our investigation into how the Poland–Belarus border became a space of violence.
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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
1/3 🟠 BVMN’s May report is now online. borderviolence.eu/reports/bvmn... With contributions from our partner organisations & working groups, this special edition explains how specific groups of people on the move are made vulnerable by the systems that are meant to protect them.
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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
1/3 🟠 BVMN’s April report is now online. borderviolence.eu/reports/bvmn... With contributions from our partner organisations & working groups, this special edition explains how specific groups of people on the move are made vulnerable by the systems that are meant to protect them.
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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Next episode topic suggestion: "Is the @frontex.bsky.social Consultative Forum still relevant?"
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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
For our blog, Magdalena Rassmann writes about the implementation process of the EU Pact in Greece and Bulgaria, and how both countries have excluded civil society from their process of implementing the Pact. borderviolence.eu/blog/a-bad-b...
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‘A Bad Beginning Makes a Bad Ending’: The New Pact and the Exclusion of Civil Society
by Magdalena Rassmann, interim coordinator at BVMN. Published on 10 June 2026. Co-published with Collective Aid. Header image: Demonstration against the EU Pact on Migration in Brussels, on 10 April 2...
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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
1/2 🟠 BVMN’s March report is now online. borderviolence.eu/reports/bvmn... With contributions from our partner organisations & working groups, this special edition explains how specific groups of people on the move are made vulnerable by the systems that are meant to protect them.
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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
In our last post on our research on the Turkish-Iranian border in Van, we explore how the weaponisation of the natural landscape and intensified policing have affected everyday life and the livelihoods of the predominantly Kurdish communities of villages near the border in Van.
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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The natural landscape of Van makes it difficult to cross: Steep mountains, uneven, rocky ground, extreme cold and snow in winter, lack of water in the summer. Human made infrastructures added further obstacles to crossings, causing serious harm to people on the move.
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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
1/8 From the late 2000s to the mid-2010s, the Turkish state built new military outposts, known as kalekol, and new observation towers equipped with surveillance technologies. The satellite images show the emergence of a kalekol in the Çaldıran district between 2010 and 2015.
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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
BVMN and our partners, Van-based organisation Ortakça, have just published a new report on the Turkish-Iranian border in Van province, one of the most dangerous crossing points for people on the move en route to Europe.
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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
1/5 Our research suggests that people on the move are pushed towards “mine-suspected” areas during crossings and Pushbacks.
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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
1/3 This testimony describes a pushback from Croatia to Bosnia on the 16th of October 2023. Nature is weaponized to directly inflict harm against people on the move, while allowing authorities to evade accountability.
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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
1/5 Our research exposes how Croatian authorities change and destroy environments for border surveillance and pushbacks. In addition to the placement of surveillance technology, roads are constructed in forests to allow quick intervention.
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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
1/4 New Report Out Today! The Croatian-Bosnian border has become a site of frequent border deaths, with many drowning in rivers and others going missing in mountainous and forested areas. This is not a coincidence but the result of deliberate weaponization of a hostile borderscape.
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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
How to build a deadly border: Deaths in border rivers remote forests and mountains are not isolated incidents but the result of policies that deliberately weaponize hostile landscapes against people on the move. (1/3)
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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Our UN Advocacy coordinator Kirsten was representing BVMN at the International Migration Review Forum this year. This is only the second that the Forum is convening - this time at the UN Headquarters in New York.
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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
1/6 Trial observers from Legal Centre Lesvos travelled to Chania, Crete to monitor so-called smuggling trials before the One- and Three-Member Appeals Courts on 4 and 7 May 2026.
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
📣 Summer intern ad: Interested in critical research on borders, counter-mapping or counter-archiving? #DetentionLandscapes are looking for an intern (**unpaid) with strong writing/ editing/ research skills and ability to work independently. More info 👉 detentionlandscapes.uwazi.io/en/
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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
1/2 BVMN is hiring a Safer Space & Community Facilitators in Sarajevo and Belgrade, starting from June 1st, for a period of 3 months. 20 hours/week. Apply by May 17 by sending your CV and a letter of motivation to ana_fieldco@borderviolence.eu Interviews will take place between 18-22 May.
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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Tomorrow at 14:30 CET, our UN coordinator will be speaking on how to center gender in migration governance, as part of the Global Gender and Migration Assembly. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Alberto Mesas 🍉 @mrtables.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Presionándolos con los fondos europeos y la promesa de adhesión al bloque, la UE utiliza a los países de los Balcanes Occidentales como laboratorio de su nueva política migratoria de externalización. Lo cuento en @ctxt.es con la colaboración de @borderviolence.bsky.social shorturl.at/zwtf2
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Los Balcanes, el patio trasero donde la UE ensaya su política migratoria
Bruselas presiona a los países de la región con los fondos europeos y la promesa de adhesión para que contengan la migración. La estrategia de reforzar fronteras ha erosionado los derechos humanos den...
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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
1/3 🟠 BVMN’s February report is now online. borderviolence.eu/reports/bvmn... With contributions from our member organisations, partners and working groups, this edition covers, among other things: ❌ New EU Regulation on safe-third countries ❌ Closure of the Ušivak TRC
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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 20/04/2026
Frontex's Israeli spy drones keep taking a swim in the Med. This time off Malta. Must be the karma for a a surveillance programme that's burned through €200M+ in EU contracts just to watch people drown. War-economies and forced migration are two sides of the same coin.🧵
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Third crash of Israeli Frontex drone, details remain secret – military in Malta claims to have recovered wreckage | Matthias Monroy
Once again, a Frontex drone has crashed into the Mediterranean – this time off Malta. Officially, the authorities speak of an emergency landing due to technical problems. Flights with a twin drone wer...
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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Last month, researcher Dan Schoolar presented findings from his research into border technologies in Serbia as part of the "Invisible Borders" project, funded by the Svenska Postkodlotteriets Stiftelse (Swedish postcode lottery foundation). www.invisibleborders.org
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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
1/3 🟠 BVMN’s January report is now online. borderviolence.eu/reports/bvmn... With contributions from our member organisations, partners and working groups, this edition covers, among other things: ❌Authorities' negligence results in another death in the Lipa TRC
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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
1/2 We are co-organizing a webinar with @11.be on pushbacks and border monitoring on Monday at 10 a.m. CET. Register here: forms.gle/s3obH7CaxYyK...
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Webinar on Pushbacks and Monitoring
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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
In our latest blog post, co-published with @statewatch.bsky.social, Luca Rondi exposes the 'blackmail' at the centre of @frontex.bsky.social's push for 'voluntary' deportations from Europe. The piece was originally written in Italian for Altreconomia.
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Immigration detention in Greece is a shady business. In 2024/25, #DetentionLandscapes collaborated with a 3D modelling specialist Boudewyn vD and a team of volunteers to visually recreate 5 immigration detention sites. detentionlandscapes.uwazi.io/en/page/8qm9...
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Shedding light on hidden detention sites with #DetentionLandscapes. 1️⃣ Corinth: ➡️built in 2012 on a former military camp, 1hr from Athens ➡️largest immigration detention centre in Greece ➡️detains men who are undocumented/asylum seekers ➡️ criticised for poor conditions, overcrowding, ill-treatment
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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
New blog post from BVMN team member @alraven.bsky.social on the EU's ongoing push to implement US-style mass deportations in Europe, and the #WeKeepUsSafe campaign's effort in opposing it. Cover image design: Elena Milani borderviolence.eu/blog/the-eu-...
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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
1/6 In 2023, BVMN submitted a complaint to the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), after recording a number of instances in which respondents stated that they were photographed by @frontex.bsky.social officers using personal mobile devices prior to being pushed back.
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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
1/3 🟠 BVMN’s December report is now online. borderviolence.eu/reports/bvmn... With contributions from our member organisations, partners and working groups, this edition covers, among other things: ❌ Conditions in the Lipa TRC
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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
1/3 We demand Truth & Justice for the people killed in the Chios boat collision.
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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
1/3 🟠 BVMN’s November report is now online. borderviolence.eu/reports/bvmn... This edition features a special contribution from @borderline-europe.bsky.social With contributions from our member organisations, partners and working groups, this edition covers, among other things:
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BVMN Monthly Report - November 2025: Criminalisation
This is the third of a series of thematic reports, where we look into overarching themes affecting people on the move across Europe. This report looks into the topic of criminalisation, and the ways t...
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Migration Scholars’ Global Solidarity and Resistance Network @migrationscholars.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Detention Landscapes - an evidence based platform which profiles detention centres in Greece and Italy, in which migrants are being held and treated abhorrently. @borderviolence.bsky.social @mobileinfoteam.bsky.social
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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
In this new blog post, David Silber writes about how the new EU Pact on Migration undermines protections of Unaccompanied Minors. The piece is based on David's field research in Malta, where he examined how age assessment affects the detention and protection of unaccompanied minors.
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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
1/2 🟠 BVMN’s October report is now online. borderviolence.eu/reports/bvmn... With contributions from our member organisations, partners and working groups, this edition covers, among other things: ❌ Violent pushbacks from Hungary to Serbia and from Croatia to Bosnia
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BVMN Monthly Report - October 2025
This report brings together information from a range of countries in the region to look at the way European Union states and other actors are affecting systemic violence towards people crossing border...
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Mobile Info Team @mobileinfoteam.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
📖 The statement on 'Psychological pressure' in Amygdaleza is now also available in Greek: www.mobileinfoteam.org/psychologica... With the English and Arabic versions available here: borderviolence.eu/reports/psyc... @borderviolence.bsky.social
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'Psychological pressure' in Amygdaleza — Mobile Info Team
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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
1/3 🟠 BVMN’s August report is now online. borderviolence.eu/reports/bvmn... With contributions from our member organisations, partners and working groups, this edition covers, among other things: ❌ Fire in Obrenovac Asylum Center, in Serbia ❌ Use of dogs by Bulgarian police
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BVMN Monthly Report - August 2025
This report brings together first-hand testimonies from a range of countries in the region to look at the way European Union states and other actors are affecting systemic violence towards people cros...
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RSA - Refugee Support Aegean @rsaegean.org · 03/11/2025
New @borderviolence.bsky.social report on the conditions faced by #detained #asylum seekers affected by #suspension of asylum applications in #Amygdaleza #Greece ‘Psychological pressure’ in Amygdaleza: undignified detention conditions and violation of asylum rights borderviolence.eu/reports/psyc...
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‘Psychological pressure’ in Amygdaleza: undignified detention conditions and violation of asylum rights
Arabic language version below. Greek version to follow soon.Trigger warning: this post contains images depicting unhygienic living conditions, including images of vermin and visible skin infections. Y...
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RSA - Refugee Support Aegean @rsaegean.org · 03/11/2025
Νέα έκθεση του @borderviolence.bsky.social για τις συνθήκες που αντιμετωπίζουν οι #κρατούμενοι #αιτούντες άσυλο που επλήγησαν από την αναστολή των αιτήσεων ασύλου στην #Αμυγδαλέζα #Ελλάδα: απάνθρωπες συνθήκες κράτησης και παραβιάσεις δικαιωμάτων borderviolence.eu/reports/psyc...
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‘Psychological pressure’ in Amygdaleza: undignified detention conditions and violation of asylum rights
Arabic language version below. Greek version to follow soon.Trigger warning: this post contains images depicting unhygienic living conditions, including images of vermin and visible skin infections. Y...
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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Dernier jour pour pouvoir joindre @humanrightsobs.bsky.social en tant que stagiaire juridique pour 6 mois, à partir du 1er Décembre. Tous les détails: humanrightsobservers.org/fr/2025/10/2...
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HRO: Human Rights Observers – Stagiaire juridique (6 mois)
HRO recherche stagiaire juridique  Lieu d’affectation : Calais (hébergement fourni en colocation, chambre partagée) Durée de l’engagement : 6 mois […]
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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Thank you to Carlotta Zaccarelli and MeltingPotEU for writing about our intervention to the UN's Human Rights Council on strengthening migration governance monitoring in the Balkans, and the role civil society can play in it. www.meltingpot.org/2025/10/il-c...
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Il confine come laboratorio di impunità: il Policy Memo del BVMN sui Balcani
Tra pushback, detenzioni illegali e sorveglianza tecnologica
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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
1/3 🟠 BVMN’s July report is now online, focused on access to shelter. borderviolence.eu/reports/bvmn... With contributions from our member organisations, partners and working groups, this edition covers, among other things: ❌ Closing of Krnjača camp and conditions in Obrenovac camp, in Serbia
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ActionAid EU @actionaideu.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
We join 200+ organisations, to call on @europarl.europa.eu to reject the proposal for a new "Return" Regulation (aka Deportation Regulation). ❌ Offshore “return hubs” ❌ Expanded detention ❌ Surveillance & racial profiling Read our joint statement ➡️ actionaid.org/publications...
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More than 200 Organisations: Inhumane Deportation Rules Should be Rejected
On 11 March 2025, the European Commission presented a new proposal for a Return Regulation to replace the current Return Directive. Behind the euphemistic name, the proposal outlines coercive, traumat...
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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Today, along with 200+ organisations, we call on @europarl.europa.eu to reject the proposal for a new Returns Regulation. Let's call this this new Regulation for what it actually is: a Deportation Regulation. @melissacamara.bsky.social @estrellagalan.bsky.social @muriellelaurent.bsky.social
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Mobile Info Team @mobileinfoteam.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
All additional documents can be found at the same link as the report: www.mobileinfoteam.org/police-stati... @bordercrim.bsky.social @borderviolence.bsky.social
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Mobile Info Team @mobileinfoteam.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
✏️ Augmenting our April report on police detention, short versions are now available in: English Arabic - العربية Urdu - اردو Farsi - فارسی Kurdish - Kurdî Greek - Eλληνικά French - Français As well as a dedicated briefing on the application of the EU’s Return & Reception Conditions Directives. 💪
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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
1/2 BVMN monitored the trials of people on the move accused of so-called smuggling at the Appeals Court in Heraklion, in Crete. All 4 Sudanese defendants were acquitted, but unequal sentencing to other nationals jeopardises the principle of equality before the law.
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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
1/2 BVMN travelled to Crete on September 1 to attend 25 trials of 36 people on the move accused of so-called smuggling, in cases dating back all the way to November and December. Only 3 out of the 25 cases were heard, and the rest was postponed to a later date.
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