Aegean Boat Report

In Week 33, the Aegean remains one of Europe’s most dangerous borders. Children abandoned at sea. A deadly shipwreck off Lesvos. Pushbacks continues.

Without witnesses, no one would know.

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📆 Week 33 in the Aegean
43 boats, 1,153 people tried to reach Greece.
✅ 18 boats arrived (434 people)
🚩 6 pushbacks (206 people, 143 in life rafts)
🚫 25 boats stopped by Turkey
🌍 Only 41.9% reached Europe.

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🚨 Greek Coast Guard opened fire on ~20 refugees near Samos today.
Instead of helping, they circled the boat, then fired shotguns—forcing it back to Turkey.
An illegal pushback, breaching UNCLOS, the Refugee Convention & Article 3 ECHR.
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🚨 July in the Aegean
Arrivals ↑ 44.8%
86 boats made it to Greece
33 pushbacks • 793 people
215 left adrift in 14 life rafts

Since 2020:
3,449 pushbacks • 94,633 people • 1,705 life rafts

Still no EU investigation.

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Aegean Boat Report i calling for help, will you pick up?

Aegean Boat Report has for over eight years supported people on the move, assisted when called upon, our hotline has been operational for over 70.000 hours, this might unfortunately soon change.

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Greek Coast Guard Performed Dangerous Towing In New Pushback, 96 People Onboard Before midnight on May 25th, Aegean Boat Report was contacted by passengers onboard a drifting vessel only 1.5 km from the southeastern shore of the Greek island of Nisyros. People onboard informed…

The Greek Coadt guard continues to risk the lives of people seeking protection, this new towing shows that they have learned nothing from their previous mistakes.

Onboard was 96 people, 38 of them small children.

It is not a question of if disaster strikes again, but when.

Here is the weekly report for week 21

This week 29 boats carrying 759 people have tried to reach the Greek islands, 9 boats made the trip and 215 people were officially registered on the Greek islands

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Updates 03.40 local time:
The Greek coast guard arrived with a Lambro 57 coastal patrol boat, attached a towline to the boat and towed it back to Turkish waters, where they left them drifting.

The pushback has been confirmed.

Boat in distress south east of Nisyros

Tonight we were contacted by desperate people on a drifting vessel outside Nisyros.

The boat was drifting due to a malfunction engine, and that there were over 100 people onboard, at least 30 of them small children.

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Over the last eight years thousands of people have contact Aegean Boat Report for assistance, either from the Greek islands after arriving, or in distress at sea.

We will do our utmost to assist whenever we are contacted, the line is open 24/7.

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Arrivals on Nisyros in danger of being pushed back!

A group of 23 people, 6 men, 7 women and 10 children, who just had arrived on the Greek island of Nisyros, contacted Aegean Boat Report this morning asking for assistance.

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At the end of 2024, Aegean Boat Report ran out of funding. After years of helping people reach safety, and exposing human rights violations, we were about to disappear.

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Here is the weekly report for week 20 from Aegean Boat Report.

This week 16 boats carrying 411 people have tried to reach the Greek islands, 10 boats made the trip and 229 people were officially registered on the Greek islands.

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Weekly report week 19

This week 29 boats carrying 632 people have tried to reach the Greek islands, 9 boats made the trip and 225 people were officially registered on the Greek islands.

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Small Children Abandoned At Sea By The Greek Coast Guard In the morning of Thursday May 1, a boat in distress north of Samos, inside Greek territory waters, contacted Aegean Boat Report and asked for assistance. They explained that they were on the way t…

Small Children Abandoned At Sea By The Greek Coast Guard

While the pressure is building up against the Greek authorities, and their blatant disregard for fundamental rights, they continues putting people’s lives at risk in violent pushback operations. aegeanboatreport.com/2025/05/09/s...

This week 19 boats carrying 472 people have tried to reach the Greek islands, 10 boats made the trip and 247 people were officially registered on the Greek islands.

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So far in 2025 Aegean Boat Report has registered a 31% decrease in people arriving on the Greek island, compared to the same period last year.

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Amnesty international, Human rights abuses in Greece continued also throughout 2024

Amnesty international has published its annual report on human rights, a separate dark chapter on Greece.

Has anything improved from the grim 2023 report, I beg to differ.
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Here is the weekly report for week 17 from Aegean Boat Report.

This week 27 boats carrying 629 people have tried to reach the Greek islands, 10 boats made the trip and 237 people were officially registered on the Greek islands.

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Greece must face punishment over abuses against migrants, Frontex official says Athens has 13 open cases into alleged human rights violations involving migrants, the single largest number of incidents across the bloc.

Greece must face punishment over abuses against migrants, Frontex official says.

Greece currently has 13 open cases into alleged human rights violations, the single largest number of incidents across the bloc. In 2024, nearly a third of Frontex’s 56 open cases involved the country.

Here is the weekly report for week 16 from Aegean Boat Report.

This week 24 boats carrying 490 people have tried to reach the Greek islands, 7 boats made the trip and 138 people were officially registered on the Greek islands.

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With as little as only €10 a month, you can ensure that Aegean Boat Report continue its vital work.

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Over the last eight years thousands of people have contact Aegean Boat Report for assistance, either from the Greek islands after arriving, or in distress at sea.

We will do our utmost to assist whenever we are contacted, 24/7.

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Here is the weekly report for week 15 from Aegean Boat Report.

This week 19 boats carrying 475 people have tried to reach the Greek islands, 10 boats made the trip and 294 people were officially registered on the Greek islands.

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Small Children Left Drifting At Sea By The Greek Coast Guard Just after midnight, on Saturday April 5, Aegean Boat Report was contacted by a group of 24 people, 10 of them small children, and a cat, who a few hours earlier had arrived on the Greek island of …

Small Children Left Drifting At Sea By The Greek Coast Guard

Just after midnight, on Saturday April 5, a group of 24 people, arrived on the Greek island of Kastellorizo.

They were kidnapped by police, taken back out to sea, and left drifting.

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Pushbacks in life rafts continues in Greece.

The last two days four life rafts have been found drifting in the Aegean Sea carrying 68 people, 21 of them small children.

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Children found malnourished in Greek migrant camp, according to MSF.

They said on Monday it had identified the first cases of malnourished children in a migrant camp on the Greek island of Samos, which has been criticized for dangerous living conditions. www.ekathimerini.com/news/1266425...

Another shipwreck outside the Greek island of Lesvos

According to information from the Greek coast guard, a boat carrying an unknown number of passengers, sank in the early hours of today, 3.5 km east of Agios Giorgos in Koutsoumbara, Lesvos south. www.facebook.com/share/p/1BAR...