A heavily pregnant Afghan asylum seeker was released from hospital after setting fire to herself at a migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesbos on Sunday. She was reported to have mental health issues, while the suicide attempt was blamed on a "misunderstanding."
The Cypriot government has lashed out at Turkey, saying it was indirectly involved in helping create a new migration route that "disproportionally burdened" Cyprus. The island nation and EU member state has had the bloc’s highest percentage of asylum seekers for several years.
The Greek migration minister Notis Mitarakis has once again denied claims that Greece is pushing migrants back to Turkey. He called the allegations "fake news," and said the claims were part of a strategy propagated by Turkey.
Beatings, threats and abandoning people at sea: According to human rights group Mare Liberum, the violence against migrants at the hands of European border guards has "reached an entirely" new dimension. In a new report, the organization documented close to 10,000 pushbacks in 2020.
Pressure is growing on the head of the European border agency Frontex after new accusations of abuses, which the EU described as "very worrying." Frontex head Fabrice Leggeri has recently been subject to accusations over the methods used to stop migrants, as well as irregularities in Frontex spending.
Amid heated debate about the long-term effects of the lockdown on children, business and the arts, Germany's refugees seem to have been forgotten.
The managing board the EU’s border agency Frontex announced that following an internal investigation, it did not yet find enough proof of any rights violations at sea involving Frontex agents. However, it also didn't rule out that pushbacks might have occurred in some of the instances.
The Greek government has called on the European Union to help ensure the return of 1,450 failed asylum seekers currently in camps on the Greek Islands to Turkey "on the basis of the EU-Turkey deal".
The Turkish news agency DHA has reported that some migrant smugglers in Turkey are using a new trick to deceive migrants: Taking money from them to reach Italy and then after a long journey, letting them out of the trucks, still in Turkey.
Refugees and migrants in Greece trying to reach western Europe have accused EU border protection agency Frontex of taking part in illegal deportations known as "pushbacks." DW reports.
Authorities in Cyprus say they have arrested two Turkish citizens for trying to smuggle a group of Syrian migrants onto the island. The 13 migrants – including a newborn baby – were to be transferred to a reception center.
The European Union has paid the final instalment of a €6 billion fund to Turkey as part of a deal on hosting refugees. The 2016 agreement has led to standoffs, as Turkey claimed that it had not received all the money promised.