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Border Violence Monitoring Network
@Border_Violence
Network of grassroots organizations documenting illegal pushbacks & police violence by EU member state authorities in the Western Balkans and Greece.
Dec 18, 2023 • 32 tweets • 6 min read
📢On this #InternationalMigrantsDay co-legislators @Europarl_EN @EU_Commission @eu2023es will celebrate by negotiating deals that will strip people on the move of their fundamental rights and make accessing asylum almost impossible in Europe.

We join others to say #StopThisPact We are looking at a system that:
▪️ Locks up all new arrivals at borders - including families and their children
▪️ Funnels people seeking safety into return mechanisms
▪️ Recognises funding for fences, walls, and border control as 'solidarity'
Oct 12, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
In case you missed it, Elena and Anas from #BVMN spoke with #JoeyAyoub on the @FireTheseTimes podcast about the increasing criminalisation of solidarity with #peopleonthemove.

1/thefirethesetimes.com/2023/10/06/how… Last March, Elena, along with @hopeameliee and others, co-developed “In Defence of Defenders: a Practical Guide for Legal Means and Advocacy Tools for Criminalised #HRDs in Europe” for @BoellStiftung @boell_gr

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Jun 30, 2021 • 8 tweets • 6 min read
[Thread] 1/ Recently a coalition of outlets, including @derspiegel and @srfnews , published several videos showing #pushbacks from Croatia to Bosnia-Herzegovina.
spiegel.de/ausland/kroati… 2/ The footage shows groups, including families and young children, being removed illegally across the border by Croatian officers, corroborating much of the written, oral and visual evidence gathered from this border location.
Jun 1, 2021 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
1/ Pushbacks, violence in numbers and (lack of) accountability. Taking a closer look at the practices of illegal expulsion from Greece to Turkey at the Evros border.
[Thread]👇 2/ BVMN has reported on the pushback of over 6000 people since January 2020 via the Evros region to Turkey, with 89% of last years cases including violence tantamount to torture.
borderviolence.eu/wp-content/upl…
May 31, 2021 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Important read from Lucy Papachristou @lucypapa96 on the experience of separated families at the HR-BiH border.
aljazeera.com/features/2021/… Over the past months, refugee families trapped outside the EU in northwestern #Bosnia have begun trying a new “game”, the "stay game". An attempt by some husbands to join again their wives and children, as legal as possible.
Mar 21, 2020 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
At the end of February thousands of people stuck in #Turkey gathered at #Greece's land and sea border with the hope of safe passage...

borderviolence.eu/new-report-on-…

(1/5) ...what they found was an extreme level of violence from police and military (teargas, water cannons and gunfire), an illegal suspension of asylum rights, daily pushbacks, and inhumane treatment such as stripping, beating and detention without food and water.

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