Luděk Stavinoha

Seán Binder, after the Lesvos court's verdict on 15 January 2026 that acquitted the 24 humanitarian defendants of all charges. This case, which had dragged on for nearly eight years, came to an end tonight after almost eleven hours of hearings.

This year’s #HumanRightsDay (10 December), Refugee Support Aegean (RSA) presents an updated overview of the conditions prevailing in #refugee #camps across mainland #Greece.

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Farewell, from Beyond Trafficking and Slavery After 11 years of publishing, the team at Beyond Trafficking and Slavery is moving on to new projects. Thank you for joining us!

The amazing Beyond Trafficking and Slavery ( @beyondslavery.bsky.social ) has handed on the baton: www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr... A huge achievement. The download of their 10 years of publishing is staggering : cdn2.opendemocracy.net/media/docume... (see below)

European Ombudsman

Frontex has once again failed to comply in full with the @ombudsman.europa.eu - this time after it was found guilty of maladministration over its refusal to disclose two major opinions issued by its Fundamental Rights Officer.

www.ombudsman.europa.eu/en/case/en/6...

In a damning internal report, @frontex.bsky.social concludes that its partners-in-crime - the Bulgaria border police - are responsible for abandoning three children, who were left to freeze to death last winter.

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Bulgarien ließ minderjährige Migranten erfrieren Ein internes Dokument der EU-Grenzagentur verzeichnet schwere Vorwürfe: Bulgarische Beamt*innen sollen systematisch Hilferufe notleidender Geflüchteter ignoriert haben – mit tödlichen Folgen.

#Bulgarien ließ minderjährige Migranten erfrieren. Ein nun veröffentlichter #Frontex-Bericht sieht die Schuld bei den Grenztruppen des Landes – die leugnen das Offensichtliche:
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No doubt, Frontex will brush these findings aside; there will be no serious follow-up actions. One need only consider the tepid recommendations issued by the FRO: no call for the officers responsible to be sanctioned or banned from taking part in Frontex's Joint Operation.

Ultimately, the deaths of Ahmed Samra, Ahmed Elavdan and Seyfala Elbeltagi do not matter, as much as the lives of these kids never did. That is why they were left to die. Their death is an inconvenience, perversely appropriated by Frontex to justify its presence.

In a damning internal report, @frontex.bsky.social concludes that its partners-in-crime - the Bulgaria border police - are responsible for abandoning three children, who were left to freeze to death last winter.

www.dw.com/bg/lzite-na-...

There’s a lot of gaslighting involved in pursuing access to these sorts of documents. Frontex's legal team has turned legalistic bullshitting into an art form. So it’s reassuring that the European Ombudsman sees straight through it — and calls it out for what it is.

EU Border Force Officers Intimidated into Silence on Migrant Abuse in Bulgaria Documents obtained by BIRN show that EU Frontex officers deployed to Bulgaria’s border with Turkey are being intimidated into silence in the face of pushbacks and brutality against migrants and refuge...

Frontex is also refusing to release details of what its internal fundamental rights watchdog recommended to tackle the systematic underreporting of rights violations against migrants witnessed by its own officers:
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How the EU is overlooking Bulgaria's unlawful migrant pushbacks ahead of its Schengen entry Internal Frontex documents reveal systematic mistreatment of migrants by Bulgarian border guards. Despite repeated warnings, the European Commission welcomes the 'excellent results' achieved by Sofia,...

The result? 18 months later, EU citizens are still denied their right to know what measures were recommended to address the torture, the beatings, the disappearances occurring in Frontex operations in Bulgaria.
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So is this another victory in the battle against Frontex’s obstinacy? Yes. But, as always with FX, the devil is in the details. Not only did Frontex insist on maintaining its redactions of the FRO’s “recommendations” on legally nebulous grounds — it refused to acknowledge it had done anything wrong.

Access to documents is not a bureaucratic nicety or a favour granted by Frontex. It’s a "special fundamental right", as the ECJ has recognised. When authorities violate it, they weaken every citizen’s ability to take part in democratic life.

It's clear that these documents should never have been kept secret. I should never have had to go to the Ombudsman for redress. They should have been released when I first requested them in May 2024. Crucially, the Ombudsman found that Frontex's use of the 'public security' exception was baseless.

European Ombudsman

Frontex has once again failed to comply in full with the @ombudsman.europa.eu - this time after it was found guilty of maladministration over its refusal to disclose two major opinions issued by its Fundamental Rights Officer.

www.ombudsman.europa.eu/en/case/en/6...

Hungry for data: Inside Europol’s secretive AI programme | Computer Weekly The EU’s law enforcement agency has been quietly amassing data to feed an ambitious but secretive artificial intelligence development programme that could have far-reaching privacy implications for pe...

Btw 2020 and 2021 Europol landed enormous volumes of data as a part of three mega-hack operations that dismantled encrypted communication systems. This would become the starting point of the agency's AI ambitions. New investigation out with @giacomoza.bsky.social and @stavinoha.bsky.social

Hungry for data: Inside Europol’s secretive AI programme | Computer Weekly The EU’s law enforcement agency has been quietly amassing data to feed an ambitious but secretive artificial intelligence development programme that could have far-reaching privacy implications for pe...

Shall we care about Europol? The answer is... Read our latest investigation to catch a glimpse about what the agency is doing to accelerate the AI transformation of policing across the EU, with minimal safeguards. www.computerweekly.com/news/3666344...

On 24th October, we are launching a new #Index on International Media Freedom Support (IMFS) - which evaluates and ranks countries based on their support for #mediafreedom globally.

It highlights well performing states in #diplomacy #funding + #safety + some concerning trends

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#Frontex published 138 page document for "European Border Surveillance Reference Architecture". It investigates police and military technologies for their use in border surveillance.
Dystopic!
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I'm not sure what's more abhorrent. The glee on the faces of these genocidal monsters. Or the sycophants from Europe and beyond who wash their crimes clean with sickly praise and adulation.

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Reminder: Europol refuses to delete personal data of thousands of people-including humanitarian activists-unlawfully transferred by Frontex for almost a decade.

Greece’s smuggling crackdown: are refugees carrying the can? Despite the stories of mass arrests, most “smugglers” jailed in Greece are asylum-seekers who were coerced into driving boats.

Despite the stories of mass arrests, most “smugglers” jailed in Greece are asylum-seekers who were coerced into driving boats.

Fast-track trials and flawed evidence raise serious concerns about justice. #EMIF @voxeurop.bsky.social

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NEW: French police have caused the deaths of dozens of people by intercepting small boats at sea

These violent tactics are deployed now off the French overseas island of Mayotte

Under pressure from the UK, France now plans to start intercepting boats in the Channel

This is where that could lead ⬇️

Enfrentamiento entre España y Frontex: dudas sobre el uso de los datos que se obtienen de los migrantes Documentos internos a los que ha tenido acceso EL PAÍS revelan tensiones entre la agencia de la UE y las autoridades españolas por las entrevistas a los recién llegados

Frontex doesn't like to hear its 'voluntary' interviews of people arriving at Europe's shores being described as covert 'interrogations'. Why? Because it has no legal mandate to interrogate and criminalise migrants.

Yet, that is precisely what's happening in Spain.

elpais.com/espana/2025-...

«Ενεργήσαμε βάσει εντολών» - Τι υποστηρίζουν οι Λιμενικοί της Πύλου στο Solomon Το Solomon συνάντησε τον δικηγόρο των Λιμενικών του πληρώματος του ΠΠΛΣ-920 που κατηγορούνται για την πρόκληση του πολύνεκρου ναυαγίου της Πύλου. Παρουσιάζουμε τους ισχυρισμούς τους, αλλά και το αναλυ...

Παρά την ποινική δίωξη εις βάρος τους, το σύνολο των λιμενικών που εμπλέκονται στο ναυάγιο της Πύλου παραμένουν σε ενεργό υπηρεσία.

Ο κυβερνήτης του ΠΠΛΣ-920 έχει προαχθεί.
@giorgoschristides.bsky.social @supergalactica.bsky.social @wearesolomon.bsky.social

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Frontex’s budget stands at €1 billion.

Yet it demands €7,680 in legal fees from a refugee who endured seven pushbacks and dared to fight back.

The EU’s legal system is designed to deter, not protect.

👉 www.publico.es/sociedad/mig...

Full access to the story here: archive.li/2025.09.08-0...

A review of multiple court rulings shows how debriefings fuel the criminalization of boat drivers, with Frontex officers identifying suspects and potential witnesses. In some cases, Spanish officers assigned to Frontex, who interviewed the migrants, even appeared as witnesses in court proceedings.