Greece has announced that new hotspots for asylum seekers on the islands of Lesbos and Chios are set to open in February and April of next year. Greek authorities are also expanding a hotspot near the Evros river on Greece's land border with Turkey.
Migrants in Turkey have told ANSA they were refused entry by Greek authorities as they were trying to reach the island of Lesbos. Illegal pushbacks against migrants at the hands of Greek authorities are well-documented.
A year after the Taliban took over Kabul, a US-trained captain of the Afghan Air Force remains in limbo on the Greek island of Lesbos, waiting to be granted refugee status.
Activists on the Greek island of Lesbos over the weekend protested against the illegal pushback of migrants. A Greek minister, meanwhile, denied media reports accusing the country's coast guard of such illegal pushbacks at sea.
Tourists have found two bodies on a beach on the Greek island of Lesbos. They reportedly belonged to two male migrants who attempted to reach Greece from Turkey. The Greek coast guard, meanwhile, says it has prevented more than a thousand migrants from arriving in Greece over the weekend.
On Wednesday, the organization Alarm Phone alerted the Greek authorities to a group of 29 migrants reportedly stuck on an uninhabited island near Lesbos. One woman in the group had reportedly given birth to a baby overnight.
A Greek appeals court has sentenced two asylum seekers from Afghanistan to four years in prison for starting a fire which burned down the Moria camp on the Greek island of Lesbos in 2020. Thousands of migrants were living at the facility at that time, with COVID-19 and unhygienic conditions dictating their daily lives.
Already an experienced mother, Nazila* did not expect that giving birth to her fourth baby would come with so many difficulties. But during her pregnancy in a refugee camp in the Greek island of Lesbos, she realized it was no place to welcome a newborn.
Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou has paid tribute to "Lesbos granny" Efstratia Mavrapidi who died at the age of 96 on Tuesday, as Greece bid farewell to another of its heroes of the migrant crisis.
Greek police have detained at least four people after a protest against the building of a new migrant camp on the island of Lesbos turned violent.
The number of migrants and refugees living on the Greek Islands was 79% lower in December 2021 compared to a year before, according to the Greek government. Meanwhile, the migrant and refugee population in all of Greece fell by 49%.
The Turkish coast guard says that it has rescued about 120 migrants in several operations in the Aegean Sea. At least four boats were pushed back into Turkey's waters by Greece, the reports claim.