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Adriana Tidona
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European Migration Researcher at @Amnesty, working on human rights at borders. Retweets ≠ endorsements Bluesky: https://t.co/jbLNutTjYq
Oct 13, 2022 • 18 tweets • 10 min read
1/For 460 days Latvia's borders with Belarus have been under a “state of emergency” which allows border guards to push back refugees & migrants and suspends the right to seek asylum. Latvia denies these human rights violations. @amnesty report, out today, tells a different story. Image @amnesty 2/We interviewed people, some with small children, stranded at #Latvia's border in 2021-2022.
They painfully described Latvian forces using tasers on their body, beating and humiliating them and nights spent sleeping on the snow, scared of bears & wolves. Take their word for it: Image
Sep 24, 2020 • 15 tweets • 6 min read
THREAD – Yesterday @EU_Commission launched its #Pact on Migration and Asylum, which includes a political communication and legislative proposals.

Some thoughts on the #EUMigration pact proposed 'gateway' into the EU and its asylum system: Screening procedures 1/A foreword: The pact insists on a dangerous fiction: people crossing borders irregularly and going through screening and border procedures are not ‘on EU territory’.

This must not be an attempt by the EU of avoiding responsibility for asylum-seekers and migrants at the border
Sep 15, 2020 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
As #Moria shows the tragic consequences of containment policies, @COE_Execution evaluate the @ECHR_CEDH case of M.S.S., which found conditions in Greece to violate the ECHR
Now more than ever supervision of this judgement must continue

@amnesty submission bit.ly/35F1ngU Image 2/M.S.S paved the way to temporarily stop returns of asylum-seekers from European members states to Greece due to the malfunctioning of its asylum system and the inadequate living conditions facing individuals.
Jul 31, 2020 • 17 tweets • 6 min read
THREAD/1: In April and May @migrationgovgr introduced regulations on NGOs working on migration, asylum & integration. Today @amnesty analysis of the rules concludes that they violate the right to freedom of association, threatening civic space in Greece ➡️ bit.ly/2CYp0FD 2/The new Joint Ministerial Decision No 3063 on the registries of Greek and foreign NGOs and their members and Art 58 of law no. 4686/2020 require all NGOs working in migr/asylum to undergo a burdensome registration process in order to continue carrying out operations in Greece.
Jul 6, 2020 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
This afternoon LIBE/@EP_Justice discusses #greece-#turkey situation with Greek Ministers and @YlvaJohansson. We urge the meeting to address ongoing pushback allegations, including the case of #naderaalmonla. @EP_Justice
meeting - disappointing to hear @YlvaJohansson
saying "pushbacks are illegal" but that commission has no power to investigate. We need words to be put into action, pushbacks investigated and justice for victims - #whereisNaderaAlmonla
Jun 9, 2020 • 21 tweets • 9 min read
THREAD: On 1 June 11,237 refugees and migrants in Greece were asked to leave their accommodation. More will follow in the future. In the uncertainty of #COVID__19, which compounds risks for #refugeesgr, they are expected to earn and find homes for themselves. Some thoughts: 1/In March 2020 Greek law was changed so that, upon obtaining recognition, refugees and subsidiary protection beneficiaries would need to leave their accommodation within 30 days. Earlier, they had 6 months’ notice. This affects those in housing schemes, camps & other facilities.
May 7, 2020 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
1/Tomorrow Greece will vote a new reform of #asylum and #migration which would allow the systematic detention of migrants in return procedures & asylum-seekers who lost their appeal
As @amnesty we consider 🇬🇷 proposal on detention gravely irresponsible

Read about our concerns⬇️ 2/The proposal is titled ''improvement of migration law"

But does it though?

Our key concerns:
- Systematic detention of asylum-seekers & migrants
- Procedural safeguards are further limited
- Removal of referrals for humanitarian protection
- Closed centres replacing camps
Mar 12, 2020 • 6 tweets • 5 min read
1/We welcome @YlvaJohansson urging #Greece to uphold the right to #asylum & looking at the black sites in Evros @nytimes, but in Lesvos 500 are abandoned on a navy boat docked in Lesvos since 1/03
Speaking to @amnesty today, A. from Syria: 'Every day is worse than the previous' 2/A., one of the 500+, says in the group are many #children and some pregnant women.
Food is inadequate, especially for babies
There are only 8-9 chemical toilets
Worst of all, there are no showers: ‘We have been here 10 days with the same clothes, we lost everything in the sea’
Jan 17, 2020 • 7 tweets • 15 min read
#Greece: @amnesty URGENT ACTION
Grant #Asylum Seekers and migrant #children access to public healthcare, to which they are banned since July
The life and health of thousands are at risk
Ask @VroutsisGiannis, @Vkikilias & @nmitarakis to act now @AmnestyUA

amnesty.org/en/documents/e… @amnesty @VroutsisGiannis @Vkikilias @nmitarakis @AmnestyUA @GiorgosKosmop @LiaGogou @lmrebassa @maxmoratti69
Dec 17, 2019 • 5 tweets • 5 min read
1/on 13 Dec @OHCHR_Europe Working Group on #ArbitraryDetention gave its preliminary findings on #Greece after visiting facilities for refugees and migrants. It noted challenges ‘due to the widespread detention in the (...) migration system which must end’ bit.ly/2PutJC3 @OHCHR_Europe 2/2.257 asylum seekers are in pre-removal detention in #Greece. Among the 'serious problems' affecting them the Working Group points to the failure to assess the necessity of detention, its excessive length, shortcomings in information, language and legal assistance #Refugeesgr
Nov 20, 2019 • 5 tweets • 5 min read
1/Amnesty is profoundly concerned over Greece's move to make detention of asylum seekers more widespread. This is a serious backward step that will trample the rights of #refugeesgr even further. @LiaGogou @GiorgosKosmop @LiaGogou @GiorgosKosmop 2/The new Asylum Bill foreshadowed the move, removing remedies to review detention orders, increasing the length of maximum permitted detention and imposing conditions for NGO's to access places of detention. We talked about it here: amnesty.org/en/documents/e…
Oct 24, 2019 • 11 tweets • 10 min read
THREAD /1: Today @amnesty voices its concerns on the proposed changes to #Greece #Asylum Law, which downgrades EU and international human rights standards for #Refugeesgr - read it here: amnesty.org/en/documents/e… @amnesty THREAD/2 - The #asylum bill was long anticipated by the GR Gov which promised "consulting publicly" on it. Yet, once published on 16 Oct, external actors had only 5 days to comment on the 121 articles of the law, covering procedures, detention, reception, health, work, education.