Aegean Migrant Solidarity | CPT Lesvos

CPT Aegean Migrant Solidarity is looking for a field team member in Lesvos, Greece. For more information visit cpt.org/job-vacancies

This Thursday, 4 Dec, 24 humanitarian Search & Rescue volunteers return to court, facing long prison sentences simply for saving lives at sea.

Rescue is not a crime

Solidarity is not a crime

Stand with them

#FreeHumanitarians #CPTAegean #SolidarityIsNotACrime #lesvos

There are two weeks left until the closing date for the public consultation on the Environmental Impact Assessment of the new detention centre in Vastria-Lesvos.

Join our campaign against the approval of the new EIA. Sign our petition and spread the word!

#lesvos #vastria #againstdetentioncentres

These days, we are sharing a space with friends, colleagues, and activists from within and around europe, at the intermediate conference of the SOLROUTES research project in Genoa.

Huge thanks and appreciation to the research and hosting team!

#solroutes #geona #cpt #aegeanmigrantsolidarity

Vastria detention centre: join our call to reject the new Environmental Impact Assessment Community Peacemaker Teams builds partnerships to transform violence and oppression. Over 35 years of action for peace and justice.

An amendment to the Environmental Terms Approval Decision for Vastria Closed Controlled Access Centre in Lesvos is an attempt to paper over old cracks. Find out why it should be rejected, and sign up to say “NO” to a new detention centre.

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“Our choice is not between war and peace but between life with dignity or without.”
Subcomandante Marcos, EZLN

Many words have been written about the deal of 9 October. Yet, this agreement is not an end but a fragile pause in a cycle of suffering that has lasted decades.

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Vastria detention centre: a new Environmental Impact Assessment recycles old problems – and introduces new ones Community Peacemaker Teams builds partnerships to transform violence and oppression. Over 35 years of action for peace and justice.

Η διαβούλευση λήγει στις 29 Νοεμβρίου 2025.
Είναι κρίσιμο να εκφράσουμε δημόσια τις αντιρρήσεις μας και να μην επιτρέψουμε την ολοκλήρωση μιας δομής που απειλεί ανθρώπους και περιβάλλον.

📎 Δείτε τη ΜΠΕ και την έκθεσή μας
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Η νέα Μελέτη Περιβαλλοντικών Επιπτώσεων (ΜΠΕ) για τη δομή κράτησης στη Βάστρια Λέσβου τέθηκε σε διαβούλευση, ενώ το έργο κατασκευής πλησιάζει στην ολοκλήρωση.
Το Υπουργείο Μετανάστευσης & Ασύλου επαναφέρει τροποποιημένη την παλιά μελέτη που είχε, χωρίς επίλυση των προβλημάτων αλλά με προσθήκη νέων.

Taliban has agreed in principle to repatriate Afghans from Germany, Berlin says BERLIN: Afghanistan’s Taliban government has agreed in principle to the repatriation of its nationals from Germany, a German interior ministry spokesperson said on Monday.“The Afghan de facto governme...

Germany is engaging with Taliban to facilitate returns.

📢 #Greece: 26 #RefugeesGr "are in urgent need of help.. on.. Farmokinisi. There are pregnant women, [some] are sick.. they haven’t eaten in 3 days..
They.. seek asylum.. we.. call on their immediate rescue & transfer to a camp.. or hospital "
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From Turtle Island, Colombia, the Aegean, to Palestine: CPT stands in solidarity with those sailing to break the siege of Gaza! Community Peacemaker Teams builds partnerships to transform violence and oppression. Over 35 years of action for peace and justice.

From Turtle Island, Colombia, the Aegean, to Palestine: we stand in solidarity with those sailing to break the siege of Gaza!
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Civil society warns these measures undermine fundamental rights and normalize inhumane treatment at Europe’s borders. The call is clear: the European Parliament must reject these rules and uphold human rights.

More than 200 organisations: inhumane deportation rules should be rejected Community Peacemaker Teams builds partnerships to transform violence and oppression. Over 35 years of action for peace and justice.

More than 200 organisations have called on the European Parliament to reject new deportation rules. The proposal would expand detention, lower safeguards, and accelerate deportations, with devastating consequences for people seeking protection.
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This is not just about Lesbos.
It’s about how migration is being managed—quietly, extra-legally, and far from scrutiny.

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Local opposition was bypassed.
Environmental protections were ignored.

Court decisions were sidestepped.

The report follows the timeline, the contracts, the justifications.
It traces how a “Closed Controlled Access Centre” was imposed where it wasn’t allowed.

The site was chosen after the 2020 uprising forced the government to suspend earlier plans.
Instead of cancelling them, they moved them out of sight.

The new report by Aegean Migrants Solidarity (AMS-CPT) documents the construction of the Vastria CCAC on Lesbos: a remote, high-capacity migrant facility, built right next to a protected forest.

How to build a detention centre Community Peacemaker Teams builds partnerships to transform violence and oppression. Over 35 years of action for peace and justice.

HOW TO BUILD A DETENTION CENTER
A new report by CPT Aegean Migrant Solidarity offers an in-depth investigation into the construction and operation of the new Closed Controlled Access Center in Vastria, Lesvos.
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The decisions by the Samos’ Court, sets a very important judicial precedence that could affect the future of many asylum seekers.
A day to celebrate, but a day also to reorganise for the next struggles.
Freedom of movement is everybody’s right!!!

The Greek penal system, unjustly confuses asylum seekers that were forced to drive the boats, with the smuggling networks, allowing for thousands to be imprisoned with sentences exceeding 50 years and hundreds of thousands of euros in fines.

Most of the people accused had already spent 6-10 months in prison on pre-trial detention, but now they will be able to complete their asylum applications and seek safety and a new start.

The court accepted the claim filled by the defence lawyers, pointing at the Greek Migration Regulation, which identifies that people seeking international protection cannot be charged for smuggling themselves or fellow asylum seekers.

Thanks to the great effort by @hrlpsamos.bsky.social and fellow lawyers, 11 young men who were charged for illegal transportation of third country nationals who do not have the permission to enter the national territory of Greece were acquitted.

In what may prove an historic day for justice, the Appeal Court of Samos accepted what was obvious for everyone else. Asylum seekers are not smugglers.

Ολοκληρώθηκε το Εφετείο για το ¨Πογκρόμ της Πλατείας Σαπφούς» Community Peacemaker Teams builds partnerships to transform violence and oppression. Over 35 years of action for peace and justice.

Ολοκληρώθηκε χτες, 05 Ιουνίου 2025, στο Τριμελές Εφετείο Πλημμελημάτων Μυτιλήνης, η δίκη σε Β’ βαθμό για τις επιθέσεις εναντίων μεταναστών τον Απρίλιο του 2018, στην πλατεία Σαπφούς της Μυτιλήνης.
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Appeal trial for the "Pogrom of Sappho Square" concluded Community Peacemaker Teams builds partnerships to transform violence and oppression. Over 35 years of action for peace and justice.

Yesterday, 5 June 2025, the appeal trial concerning the April 2018 attacks against migrants at Sappho Square in Mytilene was concluded at the Three-Member Misdemeanour Court of Appeal of Mytilene.
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Η έρευνα –με συμμετοχή μέσων όπως η Solomonη η El País και η Tagesspiegel– φωτίζει τη διασταύρωση τεχνολογίας και ανθρώπινων δικαιωμάτων στα σύνορα της Ευρώπης.

Το Υπουργείο Μετανάστευσης της Ελλάδας αρνήθηκε να απαντήσει σε συγκεκριμένα ερωτήματα για λόγους «επιχειρησιακής ασφάλειας». Η διαφάνεια παραμένει ζητούμενο.