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Aegean Migrant Solidarity | CPT Lesvos @cptlesvos.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
CPT Aegean Migrant Solidarity is looking for a field team member in Lesvos, Greece. For more information visit cpt.org/job-vacancies
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Aegean Migrant Solidarity | CPT Lesvos @cptlesvos.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
This Thursday, 4 Dec, 24 humanitarian Search & Rescue volunteers return to court, facing long prison sentences simply for saving lives at sea. Rescue is not a crime Solidarity is not a crime Stand with them #FreeHumanitarians #CPTAegean #SolidarityIsNotACrime #lesvos
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Aegean Migrant Solidarity | CPT Lesvos @cptlesvos.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
There are two weeks left until the closing date for the public consultation on the Environmental Impact Assessment of the new detention centre in Vastria-Lesvos. Join our campaign against the approval of the new EIA. Sign our petition and spread the word! #lesvos #vastria #againstdetentioncentres
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Aegean Migrant Solidarity | CPT Lesvos @cptlesvos.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
These days, we are sharing a space with friends, colleagues, and activists from within and around europe, at the intermediate conference of the SOLROUTES research project in Genoa. Huge thanks and appreciation to the research and hosting team! #solroutes #geona #cpt #aegeanmigrantsolidarity
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Aegean Migrant Solidarity | CPT Lesvos @cptlesvos.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
An amendment to the Environmental Terms Approval Decision for Vastria Closed Controlled Access Centre in Lesvos is an attempt to paper over old cracks. Find out why it should be rejected, and sign up to say “NO” to a new detention centre. cpt.org/2025/11/20/v...
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Vastria detention centre: join our call to reject the new Environmental Impact Assessment
Community Peacemaker Teams builds partnerships to transform violence and oppression. Over 35 years of action for peace and justice.
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Aegean Migrant Solidarity | CPT Lesvos @cptlesvos.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
“Our choice is not between war and peace but between life with dignity or without.” Subcomandante Marcos, EZLN Many words have been written about the deal of 9 October. Yet, this agreement is not an end but a fragile pause in a cycle of suffering that has lasted decades. cpt.org/2025/11/11/f...
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Aegean Migrant Solidarity | CPT Lesvos @cptlesvos.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
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Aegean Migrant Solidarity | CPT Lesvos @cptlesvos.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Η διαβούλευση λήγει στις 29 Νοεμβρίου 2025. Είναι κρίσιμο να εκφράσουμε δημόσια τις αντιρρήσεις μας και να μην επιτρέψουμε την ολοκλήρωση μιας δομής που απειλεί ανθρώπους και περιβάλλον. 📎 Δείτε τη ΜΠΕ και την έκθεσή μας tinyurl.com/4etrpwk9
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Vastria detention centre: a new Environmental Impact Assessment recycles old problems – and introduces new ones
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Aegean Migrant Solidarity | CPT Lesvos @cptlesvos.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Η νέα Μελέτη Περιβαλλοντικών Επιπτώσεων (ΜΠΕ) για τη δομή κράτησης στη Βάστρια Λέσβου τέθηκε σε διαβούλευση, ενώ το έργο κατασκευής πλησιάζει στην ολοκλήρωση. Το Υπουργείο Μετανάστευσης & Ασύλου επαναφέρει τροποποιημένη την παλιά μελέτη που είχε, χωρίς επίλυση των προβλημάτων αλλά με προσθήκη νέων.
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ECRE @theecre.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Germany is engaging with Taliban to facilitate returns.
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Taliban has agreed in principle to repatriate Afghans from Germany, Berlin says
BERLIN: Afghanistan’s Taliban government has agreed in principle to the repatriation of its nationals from Germany, a German interior ministry spokesperson said on Monday.“The Afghan de facto governme...
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Vassilis Tsarnas @vassilistsarnas.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
📢 #Greece: 26 #RefugeesGr "are in urgent need of help.. on.. Farmokinisi. There are pregnant women, [some] are sick.. they haven’t eaten in 3 days.. They.. seek asylum.. we.. call on their immediate rescue & transfer to a camp.. or hospital " #StopPushBacks www.facebook.com/share/1RVsZy...
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Aegean Migrant Solidarity | CPT Lesvos @cptlesvos.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
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Aegean Migrant Solidarity | CPT Lesvos @cptlesvos.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
From Turtle Island, Colombia, the Aegean, to Palestine: we stand in solidarity with those sailing to break the siege of Gaza! cpt.org/2025/10/05/f...
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From Turtle Island, Colombia, the Aegean, to Palestine: CPT stands in solidarity with those sailing to break the siege of Gaza!
Community Peacemaker Teams builds partnerships to transform violence and oppression. Over 35 years of action for peace and justice.
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Aegean Migrant Solidarity | CPT Lesvos @cptlesvos.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Civil society warns these measures undermine fundamental rights and normalize inhumane treatment at Europe’s borders. The call is clear: the European Parliament must reject these rules and uphold human rights.
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Aegean Migrant Solidarity | CPT Lesvos @cptlesvos.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
More than 200 organisations have called on the European Parliament to reject new deportation rules. The proposal would expand detention, lower safeguards, and accelerate deportations, with devastating consequences for people seeking protection. cpt.org/2025/09/16/m...
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More than 200 organisations: inhumane deportation rules should be rejected
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Aegean Migrant Solidarity | CPT Lesvos @cptlesvos.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
This is not just about Lesbos. It’s about how migration is being managed—quietly, extra-legally, and far from scrutiny. Read it. Share it.
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Aegean Migrant Solidarity | CPT Lesvos @cptlesvos.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Local opposition was bypassed. Environmental protections were ignored. Court decisions were sidestepped. The report follows the timeline, the contracts, the justifications. It traces how a “Closed Controlled Access Centre” was imposed where it wasn’t allowed.
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Aegean Migrant Solidarity | CPT Lesvos @cptlesvos.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
The site was chosen after the 2020 uprising forced the government to suspend earlier plans. Instead of cancelling them, they moved them out of sight.
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Aegean Migrant Solidarity | CPT Lesvos @cptlesvos.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
The new report by Aegean Migrants Solidarity (AMS-CPT) documents the construction of the Vastria CCAC on Lesbos: a remote, high-capacity migrant facility, built right next to a protected forest.
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Aegean Migrant Solidarity | CPT Lesvos @cptlesvos.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
HOW TO BUILD A DETENTION CENTER A new report by CPT Aegean Migrant Solidarity offers an in-depth investigation into the construction and operation of the new Closed Controlled Access Center in Vastria, Lesvos. cpt.org/2025/07/16/h...
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How to build a detention centre
Community Peacemaker Teams builds partnerships to transform violence and oppression. Over 35 years of action for peace and justice.
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Aegean Migrant Solidarity | CPT Lesvos @cptlesvos.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
The decisions by the Samos’ Court, sets a very important judicial precedence that could affect the future of many asylum seekers. A day to celebrate, but a day also to reorganise for the next struggles. Freedom of movement is everybody’s right!!!
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Aegean Migrant Solidarity | CPT Lesvos @cptlesvos.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
The Greek penal system, unjustly confuses asylum seekers that were forced to drive the boats, with the smuggling networks, allowing for thousands to be imprisoned with sentences exceeding 50 years and hundreds of thousands of euros in fines.
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Aegean Migrant Solidarity | CPT Lesvos @cptlesvos.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Most of the people accused had already spent 6-10 months in prison on pre-trial detention, but now they will be able to complete their asylum applications and seek safety and a new start.
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Aegean Migrant Solidarity | CPT Lesvos @cptlesvos.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
The court accepted the claim filled by the defence lawyers, pointing at the Greek Migration Regulation, which identifies that people seeking international protection cannot be charged for smuggling themselves or fellow asylum seekers.
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Aegean Migrant Solidarity | CPT Lesvos @cptlesvos.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Thanks to the great effort by @hrlpsamos.bsky.social and fellow lawyers, 11 young men who were charged for illegal transportation of third country nationals who do not have the permission to enter the national territory of Greece were acquitted.
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Aegean Migrant Solidarity | CPT Lesvos @cptlesvos.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
In what may prove an historic day for justice, the Appeal Court of Samos accepted what was obvious for everyone else. Asylum seekers are not smugglers.
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Aegean Migrant Solidarity | CPT Lesvos @cptlesvos.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Ολοκληρώθηκε χτες, 05 Ιουνίου 2025, στο Τριμελές Εφετείο Πλημμελημάτων Μυτιλήνης, η δίκη σε Β’ βαθμό για τις επιθέσεις εναντίων μεταναστών τον Απρίλιο του 2018, στην πλατεία Σαπφούς της Μυτιλήνης. cpt.org/el/2025/06/0...
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Ολοκληρώθηκε το Εφετείο για το ¨Πογκρόμ της Πλατείας Σαπφούς»
Community Peacemaker Teams builds partnerships to transform violence and oppression. Over 35 years of action for peace and justice.
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Aegean Migrant Solidarity | CPT Lesvos @cptlesvos.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Yesterday, 5 June 2025, the appeal trial concerning the April 2018 attacks against migrants at Sappho Square in Mytilene was concluded at the Three-Member Misdemeanour Court of Appeal of Mytilene. cpt.org/2025/06/06/a...
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Appeal trial for the "Pogrom of Sappho Square" concluded
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Aegean Migrant Solidarity | CPT Lesvos @cptlesvos.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Η έρευνα –με συμμετοχή μέσων όπως η Solomonη η El País και η Tagesspiegel– φωτίζει τη διασταύρωση τεχνολογίας και ανθρώπινων δικαιωμάτων στα σύνορα της Ευρώπης.
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Aegean Migrant Solidarity | CPT Lesvos @cptlesvos.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Το Υπουργείο Μετανάστευσης της Ελλάδας αρνήθηκε να απαντήσει σε συγκεκριμένα ερωτήματα για λόγους «επιχειρησιακής ασφάλειας». Η διαφάνεια παραμένει ζητούμενο.
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Aegean Migrant Solidarity | CPT Lesvos @cptlesvos.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Ο Χάρτης Θεμελιωδών Δικαιωμάτων της ΕΕ εγγυάται το δικαίωμα ασύλου. Οι απωθήσεις και η επιτήρηση με ΤΝ το υπονομεύουν. Η Ύπατη Αρμοστεία του ΟΗΕ και η Διεθνής Αμνηστία κρούουν τον κώδωνα του κινδύνου.
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Aegean Migrant Solidarity | CPT Lesvos @cptlesvos.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Τα νέα προσφυγικά κέντρα που κατασκευάστηκαν από το 2021 περιλαμβάνουν συστήματα ασφαλείας με βάση την Τεχνητή Νοημοσύνη. Παρά την αυξημένη επιτήρηση, συνεχίζουν τα προβλήματα όπως ο υπερπληθυσμός και οι ελλείψεις υπηρεσιών. Η τεχνολογία δεν λύνει τις ανθρωπιστικές ανάγκες.
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Aegean Migrant Solidarity | CPT Lesvos @cptlesvos.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Παρά τις δημόσιες διαψεύσεις, υπάρχουν ενδείξεις ότι η Ελλάδα πραγματοποιεί ομαδικές επαναπροωθήσεις – κάτι που παραβιάζει το δίκαιο της ΕΕ. Drones με κάμερες υψηλής ανάλυσης βοηθούν στον εντοπισμό και την απομάκρυνση μεταναστών.
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Aegean Migrant Solidarity | CPT Lesvos @cptlesvos.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Οι ελληνικές αρχές χρησιμοποιούν τα δεδομένα για να εντοπίζουν και να επαναπροωθούν πρόσφυγες πριν διασχίσουν τα σύνορα. Το 2023, η Τουρκία ανέφερε 222.000 συλλήψεις μεταναστών που προσπάθησαν να εισέλθουν στην Ελλάδα. Η ΤΝ είναι κεντρική σε αυτή τη στρατηγική.
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Aegean Migrant Solidarity | CPT Lesvos @cptlesvos.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Η περιοχή του Έβρου είναι πλέον από τις πιο επιτηρούμενες της Ευρώπης. Έντεκα πύργοι επιτήρησης με θερμικές κάμερες και ραντάρ καταγράφουν κινήσεις. Η Τεχνητή Νοημοσύνη διαχωρίζει ανθρώπους, ζώα και «ύποπτες» κινήσεις.
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Aegean Migrant Solidarity | CPT Lesvos @cptlesvos.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Η Ελλάδα εφαρμόζει συστήματα επιτήρησης με Τεχνητή Νοημοσύνη στα σύνορα και στα στρατόπεδα προσφύγων. Χρηματοδοτούνται από την ΕΕ, αλλά προκαλούν σοβαρές ανησυχίες για τα ανθρώπινα δικαιώματα. Διεθνής έρευνα αποκαλύπτει την έκταση της τεχνολογικής επιτήρησης. Διαβάστε: cpt.org/2025/05/28/s...
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Smart borders and refugee camps in Greece: the impact of AI surveillance
Community Peacemaker Teams builds partnerships to transform violence and oppression. Over 35 years of action for peace and justice.
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Aegean Migrant Solidarity | CPT Lesvos @cptlesvos.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
This investigation, involving outlets like Solomon, El País and Tagesspiegel, sheds light on the intersection of technology and human rights at Europe's borders.
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Aegean Migrant Solidarity | CPT Lesvos @cptlesvos.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
The Greek Migration Ministry declined to answer specific inquiries about these practices, citing "operational security concerns." Transparency remains elusive.
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Aegean Migrant Solidarity | CPT Lesvos @cptlesvos.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
The EU Charter guarantees the right to seek asylum. Yet, AI-driven pushbacks and surveillance undermine this right. Reports from UNHCR and Amnesty International highlight the dangers and legal violations involved.
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Aegean Migrant Solidarity | CPT Lesvos @cptlesvos.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
New refugee camps (called CCAC), established since 2021, incorporate AI-based security systems. While surveillance has increased, issues like overcrowding and inadequate services persist. The technology doesn't address the core humanitarian needs.
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Aegean Migrant Solidarity | CPT Lesvos @cptlesvos.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Despite public denials, evidence suggests Greek officials conduct collective expulsions, violating EU laws. Drones equipped with high-resolution cameras assist in detecting and expelling migrants.
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Aegean Migrant Solidarity | CPT Lesvos @cptlesvos.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Greek authorities use this data to intercept or push back refugees, often before they cross the border. In 2023, Turkey reported arresting over 222,000 migrants attempting to enter Greece. AI surveillance is central to this strategy.
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Aegean Migrant Solidarity | CPT Lesvos @cptlesvos.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
The Evros region, bordering Turkey, is now one of Europe's most monitored areas. Eleven surveillance towers with thermal cameras and radar track movements, with AI distinguishing between animals, locals, and "suspicious" individuals.
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Aegean Migrant Solidarity | CPT Lesvos @cptlesvos.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Greece is deploying AI-driven surveillance at its borders and refugee camps. Funded by the EU, these systems raise serious human rights concerns. An international investigation reveals the extent of this technological oversight. Read more: cpt.org/2025/05/28/s...
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Smart borders and refugee camps in Greece: the impact of AI surveillance
Community Peacemaker Teams builds partnerships to transform violence and oppression. Over 35 years of action for peace and justice.
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Aegean Migrant Solidarity | CPT Lesvos @cptlesvos.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Καθώς η Ευρώπη βυθίζεται στον αποκλεισμό και τη σκληρότητα, εμείς δεν σιωπούμε. Ζητάμε λογοδοσία. Ζητάμε δικαιοσύνη. #FreePylos9
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Aegean Migrant Solidarity | CPT Lesvos @cptlesvos.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Η απόδοση δικαιοσύνης για την Πύλο είναι το ελάχιστο. Τιμή στους νεκρούς, υποστήριξη στους επιζώντες. Αλλά και κρίσιμο ορόσημο για την υπεράσπιση των δικαιωμάτων των μεταναστών και την καταδίκη της κρατικής βίας.
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Aegean Migrant Solidarity | CPT Lesvos @cptlesvos.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Το ναυάγιο της Πύλου δεν είναι μεμονωμένο περιστατικό. Οι θάνατοι μεταναστών συνεχίζονται. Επαναπροωθήσεις, κρατήσεις, στέρηση δικαιωμάτων, απελάσεις, και "εθελούσιες" επιστροφές εντείνονται.
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Aegean Migrant Solidarity | CPT Lesvos @cptlesvos.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Ο Κοντίζας ήταν τότε Διευθυντής Ασφάλειας και Τάξης του Λιμενικού, με άμεση ευθύνη για την επιχείρηση. Η προαγωγή του προκαλεί σοβαρά ερωτήματα για την ατιμωρησία.
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Aegean Migrant Solidarity | CPT Lesvos @cptlesvos.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Παρά ταύτα, ο σημερινός αρχηγός του Λιμενικού, Τρύφων Κοντίζας, δεν περιλαμβάνεται στη δικογραφία. Προήχθη τον Μάρτιο του 2025, ενώ ακόμα ερευνάται η εμπλοκή του στο ναυάγιο.
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Aegean Migrant Solidarity | CPT Lesvos @cptlesvos.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Το πλήρωμα κατηγορείται για συνέργεια. Διώξεις ασκήθηκαν και σε υψηλόβαθμους αξιωματικούς, τον αρχηγό επιχειρήσεων και όλους τους ανωτέρω για έκθεση ανθρώπων σε κίνδυνο και εγκατάλειψη.
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