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I.91  Fire in Moria Refugee Camp

Fire in Moria Refugee Camp

Date of Incident

8 Sep 2020

Location

Lesvos, Greece

Forums

Legal Process, Exhibition, Media

Commissioned By

Lawyers for the Moria 6
The fire which destroyed the Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesvos was at least the 247th outbreak to have occurred in and around the overcrowded camp since 2013. Six young asylum seekers who came to be known as the 'Moria 6' were accused of arson and jailed. FA and Forensis reconstructed the fire’s spread, casting significant doubt on the basis for those convictions.

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.78  Pushbacks Across the Evros/Meriç River: The Case of Parvin

Pushbacks Across the Evros/Meriç River: The Case of Parvin

Date of Incident

1 Feb 2020

Location

Evros/Meriç river, Greek-Turkish border

Forums

Legal Process, United Nations, Human Rights Report, Media

Commissioned By

European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR)
At Europe’s southeastern river border, migrants report being beaten, detained, and illegally ‘pushed back’ to Turkey from Greece by unidentified masked men. Greek and EU authorities refuse to investigate. We worked with Parvin, a young woman from Iran, to analyse evidence she had gathered during her crossings and reconstruct her journey and experiences of ‘pushback’.

I.62  Pushbacks Across the Evros/Meriç River: Situated Testimony

Pushbacks Across the Evros/Meriç River: Situated Testimony

Date of Incident

1 Oct 2016

Location

Evros/Meriç river, Greek-Turkish border

Forums

Legal Process, Human Rights Report, Media

In Partnership With

HumanRights360
At Europe’s southeastern river border, migrants report being beaten, detained, and illegally ‘pushed back’ to Turkey from Greece by unidentified masked men. Greek and EU authorities refuse to investigate. We used architectural and gaming software to gather evidence that proves the practice is widespread and systematic.

I.61  The Killing of Muhammad al-Arab

The Killing of Muhammad al-Arab

Date of Incident

2 Mar 2020

Location

Evros/Meriç river delta

Forums

Legal Process, Media, Parliamentary Inquiry

In Partnership With

Self-Initiated
When Turkey mobilized refugees and migrants to cross into Greece, reports emerged that Greek forces had responded with live fire, causing casualties. We confirmed that, despite Greece’s denials, automatic rounds were fired from the Greek side of the border and one person, Muhammad al-Arab, was shot dead near a group of armed Greek soldiers.

I.55  The Killing of Muhammad Gulzar

The Killing of Muhammad Gulzar

Date of Incident

4 Mar 2020

Location

Kastanies/Pazarkule border crossing, Evros/Meriç region

Forums

Media

In Partnership With

Bellingcat, Lighthouse Reports
After Turkey started encouraging refugees and migrants to cross the Evros/Meriç land border into Greece, reports emerged that Greek forces had responded with live fire, causing multiple casualties. Despite Greece’s official denials, we confirmed that live rounds were indeed fired from the Greek side of the border, that several people were wounded, and one person, Muhammad Gulzar, was killed.

I.52  Shipwreck at the Threshold of Europe, Lesvos, Aegean Sea

Shipwreck at the Threshold of Europe, Lesvos, Aegean Sea

Date of Incident

28 Oct 2015

Location

Aegean Sea, Lesvos

Forums

Exhibition, Media

Commissioned By

Self-Initiated
The death of more than 40 people off the coast of Lesvos in October 2015 was the single deadliest incident in Europe's 'long summer of migration'. One of the survivors, Amel Alzakout, recorded the shipwreck on a waterproof wrist camera. Her footage provides a unique, situated perspective of this tragic event at the threshold of Europe.

I.51  Pushbacks Across the Evros/Meriç River: The case of Ayşe Erdoğan

Pushbacks Across the Evros/Meriç River: The case of Ayşe Erdoğan

Date of Incident

4 May 2019 - 5 May 2019

Location

Evros/Meriç river, Greece/Turkey

Forums

Legal Process, Media

In Partnership With

HumanRights360
Ayşe Erdoğan crossed the Evros/Meriç river into Greece in 2019, fleeing persecution in Turkey. She and two friends recorded their journey. Using messages, location data, photos, and videos, we confirmed they had reached Greece before being ‘pushed back’, and arrested and imprisoned in Turkey.

I.50  Pushbacks Across the Evros/Meriç River: Analysis of video evidence

Pushbacks Across the Evros/Meriç River: Analysis of video evidence

Date of Incident

17 Sep 2019

Location

Evros/Meriç river, Greece/Turkey border

Forums

Legal Process, Media

In Partnership With

Der Spiegel, HumanRights360
At southeastern Europe’s river border, refugees report being beaten, detained, and illegally ‘pushed back’ to Turkey from Greece by unidentified masked men. Working with Der Spiegel, we analysed the first footage of a pushback in progress, and tried to identify those responsible.

I.42  The Killing of Zak Kostopoulos

The Killing of Zak Kostopoulos

Date of Incident

21 Sep 2018

Location

Athens, Greece

Forums

Legal Process, Exhibition

Commissioned By

The Kostopoulos family
In broad daylight, in a crowded street in central Athens, a young LGBTQ activist is brutally assaulted. Passers-by paused to watch. Police arrived, violently apprehended the young man, and by the time he reached a hospital, he was dead. At the request of his family, we pieced together the available video evidence. What was the motive for the attack? And who is the man in the yellow t-shirt?

I.36  The Murder of Pavlos Fyssas

The Murder of Pavlos Fyssas

Date of Incident

18 Sep 2013

Location

Athens, Greece

Forums

Legal Process, Media

Commissioned By

Lawyers for the Fyssas family
The murder of an anti-fascist rapper by a member of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn could bring an end to the group's political ambitions. We analysed CCTV and police audio recordings to reconstruct the events of the night. Our evidence, presented to an Athens courtroom, poses difficult questions for the Greek police.