Video evidence shows asylum seekers being rounded up, taken to sea and abandoned on a raft by the Greek Coast Guard, the New York Times reports on May 19.
The Times article includes video footage provided to it by an activist who shared it with The New York Times.
Greece’s government “has consistently denied mistreating asylum seekers and points to the fact that it shoulders a disproportionate burden of managing new arrivals to Europe,” the article noted.
“But the video, provided by an Austrian aid worker, Fayad Mulla, who has spent much of the past two and a half years working on the island and trying to document abuses against migrants, may be the most damning evidence yet of the Greek authorities’ violation of international laws and E.U. rules governing how asylum seekers must be treated.”
The Immigration and Refugee News Digest 