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I.110  The Evros/Meriç River: A Century of Border Design

The Evros/Meriç River: A Century of Border Design

Date of Incident

1926 - 2025

Location

Evros/Meriç river, Greece/Turkey

Forums

Web Platform

In Partnership With

Self-Initiated
First drawn a century ago, the border that separates Greece from Turkey along the Evros/Meriç river at the EU’s southeastern frontier is deadlier and more opaque than ever. FA/Forensis built an interactive platform that unpacks this complex and lethal border infrastructure, and examines the present-day condition of the border against the transformation of the river landscape over the past century.

I.84  Drift-backs in the Aegean Sea

Drift-backs in the Aegean Sea

Date of Incident

March 2020 - Ongoing

Location

Aegean Sea

Forums

Legal Process, Human Rights Report, Media, Parliamentary Inquiry, Web Platform

In Partnership With

Forensis
Asylum seekers crossing the Aegean Sea are intercepted within Greek waters or arrested after they arrive on Greek shores, beaten, stripped of their possessions, and then forcefully loaded onto life rafts and left to drift back to the Turkish coast. FA/Forensis verified and mapped evidence for over 2000 such ‘drift-backs’, demonstrating the scale of this violent and illegal border defence practice.

I.95  The Pylos Shipwreck

The Pylos Shipwreck

Date of Incident

13 Jun 2023 - 14 Jun 2023

Location

Mediterranean Sea, Greece

Forums

Media, Web Platform

Commissioned By

Self-Initiated
On 14 June 2023, a boat carrying hundreds of migrants sank inside the Greek search and rescue zone in the Mediterranean Sea—the deadliest migrant shipwreck in recent history. Our digital reconstruction of the boat and mapping of its trajectory reveal inconsistencies in the Hellenic Coast Guard’s (HCG) account and indicate that over 600 people drowned as the result of a failed towing by the HCG.

I.90  The Beirut Port Explosion: Destruction of Destruction

The Beirut Port Explosion: Destruction of Destruction

Date of Incident

4 Aug 2020 - Ongoing

Location

Beirut, Lebanon

Forums

None

In Partnership With

Febrayer Network
Following the 2020 Beirut port explosion, the city's grain silos suffered a prolonged period of steady ruination. To understand how the gradual destruction of a ruin happened behind state cordons in the nearly two-year period since the blast, Febrayer and FA reconstructed the site to present a unified account of the state’s mismanagement of this important site of material evidence and memory.

I.76  Dispossession and The Memory of the Earth: Land Dispossession in Nueva Colonia

Dispossession and The Memory of the Earth: Land Dispossession in Nueva Colonia

Date of Incident

1960s to the present day

Location

Nueva Colonia, Urabá Antioqueño, Colombia

Forums

Legal Process, Exhibition, Human Rights Report, Truth Commission, Web Platform

Commissioned By

The Commission for the Clarification of Truth, Coexistence and Non-Repetition of Colombia
This investigation shows how the dispossession of campesino farmers in the Urabá Antioqueño region of Nueva Colonia was achieved by a combination of physical violence, environmental transformations and legal means.

I.75  The Black Boxes of Disappearance: Enforced Disappearance in the Siege of the Palace of Justice

The Black Boxes of Disappearance: Enforced Disappearance in the Siege of the Palace of Justice

Date of Incident

6 Nov 1985 - 7 Nov 1985

Location

Bogotá, Colombia

Forums

Legal Process, Exhibition, Media, Truth Commission, Web Platform

Commissioned By

The Commission for the Clarification of Truth, Coexistence and Non-Repetition of Colombia
Our investigation examines the actions of the Colombian security forces in the aftermath of the 1985 siege of the Palace of Justice that resulted in the enforced disappearance of cafeteria workers, students, visitors, guerrillas, and judges.

I.28  The Enforced Disappearance of the Ayotzinapa Students

The Enforced Disappearance of the Ayotzinapa Students

Date of Incident

26 Sep 2014 - 27 Sep 2014

Location

Iguala, Mexico

Forums

Exhibition, Media, Web Platform

Commissioned By

Centro Prodh, Equipo Argentino de Antropología Forense, EAAF
When Mexican police and local organised crime coordinated to attack a group of students, six people were murdered, forty wounded and forty-three 'disappeared'. We built an interactive platform to explore what happened that night, and to expose the inconsistencies in the state’s investigation of its own involvement in one of the most shocking moments of violence in the history of modern Mexico.

I.18  Torture in Saydnaya Prison

Torture in Saydnaya Prison

Date of Incident

1 Jan 2011 - Ongoing

Location

Saydnaya, Syria

Forums

Legal Process, Exhibition, Media, Web Platform

Commissioned By

Amnesty International
Since the start of the Syrian Civil War, thousands of Syrians have been detained, tortured and executed at the notorious Saydnaya Prison. Using architectural and acoustic modelling, we worked with five survivors to rebuild the prison and explore their memories of life and death inside its walls.