I wonder what is going to happen to the shameful pushback law? There are more humane ways to deal with asylum seekers. You don’t have to trash human rights and the rule of law to make your hostile point. Mitenköhän käy häpeällisen rajalain kanssa? On inhimillisempiäkin tapoja käsitellä turvapaikanhakijoita. Ei tarvitse heittää roskiin ihmisoikeuksia ja…
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Anachoma: A documentary on pushbacks on the Turkish-Greek border
The 480-kilometer-long Evros River, which divides Greece and Turkey in an uneasy truce, is just one of many places where EU policy on pushbacks goes largely unchecked. Finland is now planning the same thing on the Finnish-Russian border. The first screening of the documentary will take place in Vienna on May 31. We plan to…
Finland’s government dilemma: To pushback or not at the Finnish-Russian border?
As the xenophobic government of Prime Minister Petteri Orpo aims to open some border crossings on the Finnish-Russian border on 14 January, the big question will the government revert to illegal pushbacks? Why is there concern? Orpo has gone as far as to suggest earlier that asylum seekers should be sent directly back to Russia…
Pushbacks in the EU are disgraceful revealing our willingness to ditch our most sacred values
Thanks to a talk hosted by the European Network on Religion and Belief (ENORB) this week, we were able to witness once again the violent pushbacks occurring on EU borders, Migrant Tales recently published a story about this pushback on the Turkish-Greek Evros River border. The pushbacks, which go largely unnoticed by the European media,…