The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Greece engaged in systematic pushbacks of asylum seekers, ordering the country to compensate a woman forcibly returned to Turkey. This landmark judgment is the first time the court has examined a complaint of pushbacks by Greek authorities.
The European Court of Human Rights has found Greece guilty of conducting “systematic” pushbacks of would-be asylum seekers , ordering it to compensate a woman forcibly expelled back to Turkey despite her attempts to seek protection in the country. In a judgment described as potentially trailblazing, the Strasbourg-based tribunal awarded the complainant damages of €20,000 (£16,500), citing evidence that the frontline EU state was engaging in the illicit deportations when she was removed.
“There were strong indications to suggest that there had existed, at the time of the events alleged, a systematic practice of ‘pushbacks’ of third-country nationals by the Greek authorities, from the Evros region tohas been publicly condemned for carrying out a policy it has long denied, and the first time the human rights court has examined a complaint of pushback by authorities in the country. Campaigners reacted to the historic ruling with jubilation. The Greek Council for Refugees (GCR), which had taken up the case and provided legal representation for the complainant, described the decision as “a landmark judgment”. The woman, identified by her initials as ARE in court documents, lodged the case before the tribunal in 2021, almost two years after her expulsion in May 2019. An earlier attempt to have the complaint heard in Greece was rejected by an appeals court prosecutor in the region of Thrace on the grounds that Greek police “never” engaged in such activity. International jurists, however, accepted the allegation that the refugee, fleeing political persecution as a convicted member of the faith-based Gulen movement, had not only been forcibly expelled but illegally detained before deportation. The pushback occurred under cover of darkness with the applicant and several other asylum seekers being forced by commandos in balaclavas to board an inflatable boat back to Turke
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