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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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 04/06/2025

1/4 In spite of extensive reports of human rights violations against people on the move, @frontex.bsky.social is forging ahead with a plan to deploy “tactical drones” at the Bulgaria-Turkey border. borderviolence.eu/reports/stat...

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Statement on the Frontex pilot drone project in Bulgaria

In spite of extensive reports of human rights violations against people on the move in Bulgaria, the European Border agency Frontex is forging ahead with a plan to deploy so-called tactical drones alo...

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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Thank you to @cptlesvos.bsky.social for featuring our research into surveillance technologies in the Evros region in their latest report. Read our report by our coordinator Lena Karamanidou here: borderviolence.eu/reports/surv...

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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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Arbeitology @arbeitology.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I was actually bought up in a world where this question didn’t even exist. It’s only in the last 10 years it’s become a national obsession.

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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

"The violence continues. And it has even increased in areas where @frontex.bsky.social is active," our Research Coordinator Lena Karamanidou told Swiss magazine @magazindaslamm.bsky.social Read part 1 of this 4-part series on Swiss involvement in Frontex post-referendum: daslamm.ch/das-geheime-...

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Das geheime Dokument im Abstimmungskampf

Mehr Geld für Frontex: Das beschlossen die Schweizer Stimmbürger*innen heute vor drei Jahren. Eine geheime Infonotiz zeigt nun: Die Bundesverwaltung hielt brisante Informationen zurück. Derweil gehen ...

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Statewatch @statewatch.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

EU governments are pushing to set up deportation camps in non-EU countries — and to do so in a way that avoids judicial scrutiny. These so-called “return hubs” would hold people who have received a final deportation order, even if they cannot be sent to their country of origin.

Newly leaked EU document reveals plans for deportation camps - designed to evade judicial scrutiny.

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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

1/5 On 12 January, we made a submission to the UN's Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights ahead of the visit of its Working Group on the use of mercenaries to Cyprus. borderviolence.eu/reports/subm...

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lk2015r.bsky.social @lk2015r.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Beyond the fiction that border crossings in #Evros have been reduced to zero, this is the reality: another road accident with many people injured. Another wall have been (nearly) built, crossings might be fewer but they haven't stopped, people are still harmed. 1/ www.evros-news.gr/2025/05/10/s...

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Σουφλί: Τροχαίο με πολλούς τραυματίες στο Πρωτοκκλήσι – Μεταφέρθηκαν στα Νοσοκομεία Διδυμοτείχου και Αλεξανδρούπολης

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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 30/04/2025

The Serbian government must prevent the use of sound devices for crowd control, says the European Court of #HumanRights👇 Full press release via hudoc.echr.coe.int/fre-press?i=... #ECHR

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borderline-europe @borderline-europe.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Political parties are using #AIGeneratedImages to push racist, anti-migrant agendas. Italy’s #Lega party has published at least 17 social media posts featuring fake, AI generated images. These images depict violent scenes allegedly involving migrants - but the visuals are entirely fabricated.

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Katy Fallon @katymfallon.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

With @giorgoschristides.bsky.social, we wrote about the dozens of young men under 21 who fled Sudan & are now facing (what their lawyers say are) draconian charges under Greek anti-smuggling legislation. Many have already been handed lengthy sentences in Greece... www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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‘It was steer or they would kill me’: why Sudanese war refugees are filling prisons in Greece

Prosecutors are using harsh anti-smuggling laws to jail people who have no connection to criminal offences, say migrants’ lawyers

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Matthias Monroy @matthimon.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

#Frontex was previously barred from monitoring social media. Now, under #EUROSUR, the agency wants to use it — claiming it’s for saving lives at sea. An impact assessment will explore if personal data use can be justified for this #SOCMINT: www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/docume...

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Parliamentary question | Answer for question E-000908/25 | E-000908/2025(ASW) | European Parliament

Answer for question E-000908/25

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 26/04/2025

Virginia Giuffre, who was the first of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims to go public — accusing Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell of recruiting her to join their sex trafficking ring — and who sued Prince Andrew for sexual assault, died on Friday. She was 41.

nytimes.com

Virginia Giuffre, Voice in Epstein Sex-Trafficking Scandal, Dies at 41

She accused Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, of recruiting her to join their sex-trafficking ring and sued Prince Andrew for sexual assault.

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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Sudan situation ‘absolutely devastating’ as UN ramps up food. Half of its population is facing extreme hunger, and nearly five million children and breastfeeding mothers are severely malnourished. news.un.org/en/story/202...

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Sudan situation ‘absolutely devastating’ as UN ramps up food aid

The situation in western Sudan is “shocking” and people in the capital, Khartoum face “absolutely devastating” conditions according to a senior UN official in the African country.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 26/04/2025

The intellectual trap here is seeing the world only as competing states/empires, forcing a false choice of which to support. The anarchist perspective offers a way out: solidarity with people over states. International solidarity with people resisting ALL forms of oppression, as Al-Shami argued.

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The ‘anti-imperialism’ of idiots - Leila Al-Shami

Once more the western ‘anti-war’ movement has awoken to mobilise around Syria. This is the third time since 2011.

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Sulafa Zidani @zidani.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

My article on “layered surveillance” and creative ways activists maneuvered it in the 2021 #SaveSheikhJarrah movement is now out in @ijoc-usc.bsky.social This was a great collab with Dana Hasan and Amal Nazzal @ Birzeit university, so please check their other work as well! ijoc.org/index.php/ij...

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Beating Algorithmic Discrimination: Maneuvering Digital Surveillance to Indigenize the Narrative | Hasan | International Journal of Communication

Beating Algorithmic Discrimination: Maneuvering Digital Surveillance to Indigenize the Narrative

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Lars Fischer @fischblog.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

This is really important. Do NOT use the AI summaries at the top of google searches. Ignore them. This is especially important if you don't have any prior knowledge about the topic, but also a good general rule. Search sources, scrutinize them carefully and double-check with other sources.

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

“While women’s rights decline around the globe, the ever-precarious position of women is overshadowed by spectacles such as this spaceflight, as seen just two days later as the UK Supreme Court ruled to exclude trans women from the legal definition of womanhood.”

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Luděk Stavinoha @stavinoha.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

The first step towards improvement is acceptance. Acceptance that Frontex has a serious transparency problem. In the past 6 months alone, @frontex.bsky.social has twice flouted its obligations under EU transparency rules, according to the @ombudsman.europa.eu.

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Mobile Info Team @mobileinfoteam.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Site Profile: The Thessaloniki General Police Directorate (Megaro) ➡️Located in the western side of Thessaloniki ➡️Last visit by the CPT: 2019 ➡️Length of detention in testimonies: 8-46 days Site profile: detentionlandscapes.uwazi.io/en/entity/5w...

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Statewatch @statewatch.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Belgian police want to predict crime—but what they’re doing is reinforcing discrimination. A new report from Statewatch, Ligue des droits humains and Liga voor Mensenrechten underscores the risks of these ‘predictive’ policing systems.

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Migration and Technology Monitor @migrationtechmonitor.com · 22/04/2025

Israel is using state-of-the-art technology against Palestinians not only in Gaza, but also against residents in the West Bank. 2024/25 MTM fellow and Palestinian researcher @monashtaya.bsky.social talks with us about life under high tech occupation ➡️ www.migrationtechmonitor.com/blog/monas-b...

The wall in Bethlehem, West Bank at sunset, with shadow of surveillance tower. Credit: Florian Schmitz

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WIRED @wired.com · 21/04/2025

Do Customs and Border Protection officials have the authority to search your phone at the border? Short answer? Yes. Here’s what you can do to protect your digital life while at the US border.

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How to Protect Yourself From Phone Searches at the US Border

Customs and Border Protection has broad authority to search travelers’ devices when they cross into the United States. Here’s what you can do to protect your digital life while at the US border.

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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

1/2 🟠BVMN’s February report is now online. borderviolence.eu/reports/balk... With contributions from our member organisations, partners and working groups, this edition covers, among other things: ❌ Arrival of the "Schengen bus" and other surveillance equipment to Serbia

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Mobile Info Team @mobileinfoteam.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Site Profile: The Special Ηolding Facility of the Thessaloniki Aliens Police Directorate (Metagogon) ➡️Located in an old factory warehouse building ➡️Last visit by the CPT: 2016 ➡️Average length of detention: 36 days Site profile: detentionlandscapes.uwazi.io/en/entity/av...

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Widespread surveillance leads to abuses of power, discrimination, and the stifling of freedom of expression, says Petra Molnar. Historically marginalized communities will bear the disproportionate brunt of this type of social media surveillance, she writes.

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Trump’s Social Media Surveillance: Social Scoring by Another Name | TechPolicy.Press

Widespread surveillance leads to abuses of power, discrimination, and the stifling of freedom of expression, writes Petra Molnar.

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Luděk Stavinoha @stavinoha.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

@frontex.bsky.social has one month left to respond to the @ombudsman.europa.eu's finding of maladministration, following a complaint I had filed. Frontex had refused to disclose two key opinions issued by its Fundamental Rights Officer last year. www.ombudsman.europa.eu/en/recommend...

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Mobile Info Team @mobileinfoteam.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

📢 Report: Greece’s Illegal Use of Police Stations to Detain Migrants Today, @mobileinfoteam.bsky.social, @bordercrim.bsky.social and the Border Violence Monitoring Network publish a new report on the detention of migrants in police stations in Greece ➡️ www.mobileinfoteam.org/police-stati...

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Report: Greece's Illegal Use of Police Stations to Detain Migrants — Mobile Info Team

Today, Mobile Info Team, Border Criminologies and the Border Violence Monitoring Network publish a new report on the use of police cells for long-term detention of migrants in Greece.

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 18/04/2025

We should all be pro trans and pro woman. The Labour party taking this line is deep shit time.

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Solomon @wearesolomon.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

1/ Η σκιώδης εταιρεία #Clearview AI έχει δεχτεί πρόστιμα ύψους 100 εκατ. ευρώ για παραβίαση των προσωπικών δεδομένων σε Ελλάδα, Ιταλία, Γαλλία, και Ολλανδία. Τρία χρόνια μετά, αποκαλύπτει έρευνα του Solomon σε συνεργασία με το @irpimedia.eu, δεν έχει πληρώσει ευρώ. wearesolomon.com/el/mag/forma...

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Clearview: Πώς η σκιώδης αμερικανική εταιρεία συνεχίζει να σκανάρει τα πρόσωπά μας

Η αμερικανική Clearview AI έχει δημιουργήσει μια τεράστια βάση βιομετρικών δεδομένων – δίχως συγκατάθεση. Η εταιρεία αρνείται να πληρώσει πρόστιμα ύψους σχεδόν 100 εκατ. ευρώ, αναδεικνύοντας τα σύγχρο...

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moiralavelle.bsky.social @moiralavelle.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Wrote about the latest report published by @bordercrim.bsky.social, which alleges that Greece regularly uses prolonged detention of migrants in police station cells in violation of its own laws: www.tovima.com/society/repo...

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Report Alleges Systemic Illegal Detention of Migrants in GR Police Stations

A report by Border Criminologies alleges that Greece regularly uses prolonged detention of migrants in police station cells in violation of its own laws.

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Privacy International @privacyinternational.org · 16/04/2025

Read IRPImedia's investigation report on Italy's law enforcement agency Guardia di Finanza and Frontex (the European Border and Coast Guard Agency)'s use of drones in the Mediterranean: irpimedia.irpi.eu/en-the-silen...

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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

1/6 📢 Report: Greece’s Illegal Use of Police Stations to Detain Migrants Today, @mobileinfoteam.bsky.social, @bordercrim.bsky.social and the Border Violence Monitoring Network publish a new report on the detention of migrants in police stations in Greece ➡️ www.mobileinfoteam.org/police-stati...

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Report: Greece's Illegal Use of Police Stations to Detain Migrants — Mobile Info Team

Today, Mobile Info Team, Border Criminologies and the Border Violence Monitoring Network publish a new report on the use of police cells for long-term detention of migrants in Greece.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Three headlines for the same story. Here’s how to read them. 🧵

New Gaza medic attack video contradicts Israel military claims

Video footage appears to contradict Israeli account of Gaza medic killings

Palestinian medical officials say they obtained video footage that refutes Israel's claims about the killing of 15 rescue and aid workers in the southern Gaza Strip last month.

Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights On

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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

1/3 On March 15, 2025, a so-called Long-Range Acoustic Device (LRAD), also known as a “sound cannon”, was reportedly used against hundreds of thousands of protestors in Belgrade, Serbia. We believe this wasn’t the first time a weapon like this has been used in Serbia.

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Luděk Stavinoha @stavinoha.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

For months, frontline EU staff deployed in refugee camps in Greece have been filing internal reports about the systemic neglect of hundreds of unaccompanied children. In our @wearesolomon.bsky.social investigation, we reveal the scale of the disastrous conditions. wearesolomon.com/mag/focus-ar...

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Unaccompanied Children Sleep on the Floor in Shifts in Greece’s 'Model Camps'. The EU Is Aware.

Internal EU documents obtained through freedom of information requests and visual evidence from rights organizations on the ground, reveal systemic neglect of hundreds of unaccompanied children trappe...

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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

1/3 🟠 BVMN’s January report is now online. borderviolence.eu/reports/balk... With contributions from our member organisations, partners and working groups, this edition covers, among other things: ❌ Tech use for surveillance of activists and people on the move in Serbia

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Balkan Regional Report - January 2025 - BVMN

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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

We are beyond excited that we co-received a high commendation from the Oxford #SocialSciencesImpactAwards along with @mobileinfoteam.bsky.social and @bordercrim.bsky.social for Detention Landscapes! Check out: detentionlandscapes.uwazi.io/en/

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Rine Vieth @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

This. I wish more people knew about how immigration systems work, because someone overstaying a visa (as she did) going through an airport can be easy to flag, vs a targeted effort for a single person. I hate it, and I hate that legit concerns last year were absolutely painted as "woke hysterics."

The reality of immigration enforcement is that targeting convicted criminals requires time and manpower; it can take half a dozen agents to arrest a single person.

An airport checkpoint – like the one at the San Juan airport in mid-February – can quickly round up multiple people whose immigration status may be in limbo.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 16/03/2025

DEVELOPING: At least 51 people have been killed and more than 100 injured after a devastating fire broke out at a packed nightclub in Kocani in North Macedonia, according to Interior Minister Panche Toshkovski ⤵️

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At least 51 people killed in North Macedonia nightclub fire

More than 100 people injured in the deadly fire at at the nightclub in Kocani – about 100km east of the capital Skopje.

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