Nearly two dozen young migrants were taken to Switzerland from overcrowded camps on Greek Aegean islands on Saturday, according to Greek authorities. However, more than 5,000 unaccompanied minors remain in Greece.
Greek authorities have denied at least 625 people who arrived on the island of Lesbos between March 1 and 18 the right to seek asylum, the organization Human Rights Watch claims.
The EU has announced a financial incentive of €2,000 to migrants on five Greek islands to voluntarily return to their home countries. The goal of the initiative is to reduce severe overcrowding in migrants camps like Moria. InfoMigrants breaks down the details behind the new scheme.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has sharply criticized Greece for holding over 450 migrants on a navy vessel docked on the Greek Aegean island of Lesbos. The organization referred to a Syrian on board the ship who reported inhumane conditions.
The Turkish president has ordered his coast guard to prevent migrants and refugees from crossing the Aegean Sea. Erdogan has triggered a migrant crisis at the Greek border by falsely informing people the border was open.
Several Greek islands, including Lesbos, have launched a labor stoppage following "extremely aggressive" clashes between police and anti-refugee protesters. Locals continue to call for an end to migrant camps.
Greece wants to install floating barriers in the Aegean Sea to prevent migrants from reaching the islands from Turkey. Nearly 60,000 migrants arrived on Greece’s shores last year.
Residents, business owners and officials on the Greek islands of Lesbos, Samos and Chios are holding a day of protests over migrant camps. Local authorities are demanding that Athens speed up transfers of migrants to the mainland.
The new Greek government has been accused of "incompetence" after it reinstated a separate ministry for migration. Still, the government says it will move ahead with its plans to replace current "open" camps like Moria on the Greek island of Lesbos -- despite protests on the Aegean islands.
On Friday, riots between African and Afghan migrants at the Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos broke out following the stabbing of a 20-year-old man from Yemen and the subsequent arrest of a 27-year-old Afghan. The incident was already the second death at Moria this year.
More than 120,000 irregular migrants and refugees arrived in the EU this year, mostly by sea. Greece saw a dramatic increase in arrivals, while arrivals in Italy and Spain declined. We take a look at clandestine and irregular migration movements to Europe in 2019.
The bodies of six migrants were found on the Greek-Turkish border in the Evros region in recent days. They appeared to have died from exposure, a Greek coroner said.