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omniatv @omniatv.com · 23/09/2025
Greece's Migration Minister has threatened whom he calls "illegal migrants" with "return, or prison". So who are these migrants? And how does @iom.int stand to benefit? @hopeamelie.bsky.social, @anasambri.bsky.social and @phesimeonid.bsky.social investigate. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwvR...
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Investigation: Voluntary Returns Everywhere | Greece
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Syria Direct @syriadirect.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
How Bulgaria is quietly disposing of its Syrian refugees ✍️ @hopeamelie.bsky.social Supported by a grant from Investigative Journalism for Europe (IJ4EU)
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How Bulgaria is quietly disposing of its Syrian refugees
Bulgarian authorities are pressuring and coercing Syrian asylum seekers to return home, part of a wider European shift that began before the fall of the Assad regime last December, but has accelerated...
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Anas Ambri @anasambri.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
If you really don't like videos, and would much rather read (and support) print journalism, check out the story we just published on this @newhumanitarian.bsky.social www.thenewhumanitarian.org/investigatio... cc @phesimeonid.bsky.social @hopeamelie.bsky.social
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“Return, or prison”: Inside IOM and Greece’s failing migrant return scheme
The UN agency started offering larger cash grants as an alternative to prison. When that didn’t work, it revised down the targets of the scheme.
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Anas Ambri @anasambri.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
One year in the making, and it's finally here. An investigation with @hopeamelie.bsky.social that looks into a new inexpensive way Cypriot authorities have found to dispose of asylum seekers in the country. Coming up this Monday on @thenewarab.bsky.social: youtu.be/5_gs5pRsPvA
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Sneak peek: EU deports Syrians under the guise of voluntary returns
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euobserver — EU news that matters @euobserver.com · 21/11/2024
As the European Parliament's LIBE committee discusses its draft report on Frontex in Serbia on Thursday, we document 12 months of serious and escalating violence from Serbian authorities against people on the move.
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Frontex in Serbia — a catalogue of 12 months of denials
As the European Parliament's LIBE committee discusses its draft report on Frontex in Serbia on Thursday, we document 12 months of serious and escalating violence from Serbian authorities against people...
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Luděk Stavinoha @stavinoha.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
"This fits into the broader pattern of Frontex and the European Commission’s behaviour: systematic rights violations are ignored—whether in the Aegean or Mediterranean seas, Bulgaria, Albania, Serbia or beyond—even when documented by the agency’s own internal mechanisms."
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Anas Ambri @anasambri.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
1/ New for @statewatch.bsky.social with @hopeamelie.bsky.social: A look at "Return Counselling" (RC), a new competency that the EU Border Agency quietly acquired in 2022, and how it is used to encourage "voluntary returns" from inside Bulgaria's detention centres www.statewatch.org/news/2025/de...
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Statewatch | Deportations: New role for Frontex as EU pushes for more “voluntary” returns
A special report by Hope Barker and Anas Ambri: The EU has been funding new accelerated asylum and deportation procedures in Bulgaria, including a new "assisted voluntary return" project. Increasing "...
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Antonella Napolitano @svaroschi.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Very glad to have our analysis (with @hopeamelie.bsky.social ) published on @bordercrim.bsky.social - we got some very interesting feedback so far. Looking forward to comparing notes with more researchers - and to transparency from Europol (one can always hope!)
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