*Aegean Sea & Islands*:
* 28/4: Leros report:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Chbioi8WwAEfTDv?format=jpg&name=large
* 2/5: EU concerns about security in the greek camps after riots in
Lesvos:
http://www.politico.eu/article/eu-asylum-agency-easo-security-measures-greece-centers-lesvos-riots-migration-crisis/
* 4/5: Vial/Chios:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW-NOPBT0vw&feature=youtu.be
* 4/5: The aegean back on the spotlight after what Erdogan said:
http://www.ekathimerini.com/208350/opinion/ekathimerini/comment/the-aegean-is-back-in-the-spotlight
* 5/5: Chios: ‘This is not a Refugee hotspot. It’s a prison.’
http://chronikler.com/europe/european-union/refugee-hotspot/
* 5/5: Detained minors in Chios hotspot:
http://infomobile.w2eu.net/2016/05/05/voices-from-inside-vial-chios-unaccompanied-minor-detained-since-49-days/
* 5/5: Hungerstrike in Vial:
https://insidevial.wordpress.com/2016/05/05/vial-hunger-strike-day-3/
* 6/5: Statistics from Greek government of arrivals:
http://media.gov.gr/index.php/%CF%85%CF%80%CE%B7%CF%81%CE%B5%CF%83%CE%B9%CE%B5%CF%83/%CF%80%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%83%CF%86%CF%85%CE%B3%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%8C-%CE%B6%CE%AE%CF%84%CE%B7%CE%BC%CE%B1/summary-statement-of-refugee-flows-06-05-2016
* 7/5: Protest in Moria:
https://twitter.com/iwatnew/status/729156821525659648
*TURKEY*
* 2/5: (german) Turkey sets up self shooting guns at the border to
Syria:
http://www.zeit.de/kultur/2016-05/tuerkei-fluechtlingspolitik-ddr-vergleich-10nach8
* x/5: Air strike hits syrian refugee camp Idlib and kills more than
30 people:
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/05/deadly-air-strike-hits-syrian-refugee-camp-idlib-160505171436082.html
* 4/5: Visa free travel for Turkey:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/04/european-commission-urges-eu-backing-for-visa-free-travel-for-turks-ankara
* 6/5: Syrian children in Turkey: War or child labor:
https://www.facebook.com/theguardian/videos/10154160415601323/
* 6/5: EU-Turkey deal on the brick after Erdogan refuses to asimilate
to EU antiterror law:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/06/erdogan-turkey-not-alter-anti-terror-laws-visa-free-travel-eu
&
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36229468?ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbc_breaking&ns_source=twitter&ns_linkname=news_central?SThisFB
*Mainland of Greece – legal & political information’s:*
* 1/5: Deportations in the dark: Report from deportation in Paranesti
(north):
http://refugeecrisisvolunteer.blogspot.gr/2016/05/deportations-in-dark-report-from_1.html
* 4/5: ‘Trapped in new greek archipelago with no way out’:
https://www.opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/tim-baster-isabelle-merminod/trapped-in-new-greek-archipelago-with-no-way-out
* 5/5: Interview in Chalkero with residence of the camp:
http://moving-europe.org/05-05-2016-interview-about-chalkero/
* 6/5: ‘The Orbanisation of EU asylum law’ – analysis:
http://eulawanalysis.blogspot.gr/2016/05/the-orbanisation-of-eu-asylum-law.html?spref=tw
* 7/5: ‘New legal framework for financing actions related to refugee
crisis privides for in-transparency’
https://apostolisfotiadis.wordpress.com/2016/05/07/new-legal-framework-for-financing-actions-related-to-refugee-crisis-provides-for-in-transparenc/
* 7/5: (german) Unaccompanied minors are detained for long term in
police custody. Conditions are very bad. UNHCR believes that about
2.000 UM’s are in Greece, Government has only 477 places for
shelter.
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/fluechtlingskinder-werden-in-griechischen-gefaengnissen-festgehalten-a-1091102.html#spRedirectedFrom=www&referrrer=https://t.co/JLMFc0ZQlM
* 7/5: ‘Syrian refugees abandon Greek camps in search of better
prospects’:
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/syrian-refugees-abandon-greek-camps-search-better-prospects-443433966#sthash.2N3rXoNy.uxfs&st_refDomain=&st_refQuery=
* 7/5: UNHCR transfers people to overcrowded camps despite they are
full: https://twitter.com/UNDKRefugees/status/728927744160112640
* 7/5: A demonstration took place at the detention center of Paranesti
of the global day against detention:
https://twitter.com/CitKrmer/status/728944131209347072
* 8/5: Protest in Chalkero camp, where the residents of the camp
kicked out the NGOs because situations is that bad:
https://twitter.com/alimborsan/status/729222504649248773
* 8/5: Syrian Refugees feel betryed by the west:
http://europe.newsweek.com/syrian-refugees-greece-feel-betrayed-west-456318
* 8/5: Chalkero camp:
https://twitter.com/alimborsan/status/729259063649947649
*Piraeus/Athens*:
* 3/5: Update from the port:
http://drapenihavet.no/en/update-from-piraeus-port-athens/
*Idomeni – Check on Twitter #Idomeni:*
**
* 4/5: People from Idomeni camp react angry on idea of Visa free
schengen travel for turkish people:
http://www.euronews.com/2016/05/04/migrants-in-idomeni-react-angrily-to-idea-of-visa-free-schengen-travel-for/
* 5/5: clashes when Police tried to evict railroad:
https://twitter.com/Ruptly/status/728276986745880576 &
http://www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2016/05/05/tension-in-idomeni-as-refugees-migrants-staged-an-action-at-the-border-fence-to-fyrom/#.Vytfssslcic.twitter
* 5/5: The coasts for the bloackade of the railroad are about 4 Mio.
€: http://www.balkaneu.com/blockade-idomeni-cost-eur-4-mln-estimates/
* 6/5: Doctors without borders reports from Greece, particularly
Idomeni:
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/article/refugees-greece-inescapable-shadow-syria
* 6/5: In 24 hours about 800 people tried to cross into Macedonia:
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2016/05/06/800-refugees-try-to-cross-from-greece-to-fyrom/
* 6/5: Are you syrious about future of Idomeni: ”
/Various sources are confirming that relocation will begin soon,
possibly as of tomorrow. Not enough information is available about
the procedure, or the places to which refugees will be relocated.
Apparently, UNHCR is taking applications for voluntary transport.//
//Previously, in April and March, we reported about the four new
camps in Thessaloniki area to which people from Idomeni will be
relocated. According to the statement from April 27 by Giorgos
Kyritsis, a spokesman for refugee and migration affairs, new camps
are built inside of two former factories, a former logistics company
and a former warehouse. AYS learned that some other camps will also
be used. Some of the camps to which people will be relocated are
Nireas, Lagkadikia, Sindos, Oraiocastro, not all of them in
Thessaloniki. Over the last couple of weeks, groups of people have
already been taken to these camps. Over the next days we will try to
find out as much as it is possible about conditions in the new camps.//
//Alternate Migration Policy Minister Yiannis Mouzalas told the news
agency//ANA-MPA
<http://www.amna.gr/english/article/13709/Mouzalas-to-ANA-MPA:-Idomeni-must-and-will-be-dismantled>// //that
the camp at Idomeni, “must and will be dismantled.” However, he did
not give details . He mentioned a meeting held in Thessaloniki on
May 4th with local governments, NGOs and organizations describing it
as a “working meeting that aims to end the horror of Idomeni.” If
refugees choose to remain in Idomeni when there are alternative
accommodations places available, he added, “then they must put up
with the consequences of this choice.”//
//The minister also promised that people whose papers have expired
(and around 70 percent of those staying at Idomeni are, he said)
will get new ones after relocation. “We say that if they come to the
camps, their papers will be automatically renewed. The difference is
that we are not threatening; we are offering a prospect of
legality,” he clarified. At the meeting, Mouzalas repeatedly
stressed his commitment to ensure that no force is used during the
evacuation.//
//Currently, 10,124 refugees are living in Idomeni in desperate
conditions. There is no possibility that the border will be open any
time soon. Today, one group of the refugees held a protest again
trying to draw attention to the horrible situation in the camp./”
https://medium.com/@AreYouSyrious/ays-daily-news-digest-5-5-2016-e7f59ad845bc#.k5waytnfp
* 7/5: ‘Man tries to suffocate himself at refugee camp after finding
out sister was killed in Aleppo’:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/syrian-man-tries-to-suffocate-himself-at-refugee-camp-after-finding-out-sister-was-killed-in-aleppo-a7018066.html
* 8/5: The refugee children of Idomeni:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/07/refugee-children-idomeni-syria-greece?CMP=twt_a-world_b-gdnworld
* 9/5: Big Greek wedding in Idomeni:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36213479
Background Informations:
*NEWS & Analysis*
* The website & facebook page ‘*Are you Syrious*’:
https://medium.com/@AreYouSyrious &
https://www.facebook.com/areyousyrious/ gathers many news on a daily
basis for most of Fortress Europe. Their sources are mainly ‘people
on the ground’ Migrant and European activists who they build up a
trusted relationship, for that also see the interview with one
activists of them in German:
https://www.freitag.de/autoren/juloeffl/wir-muessen-die-journalisten-umtrainieren
* “How is Europe punishing the migrants: Map”:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/world/migrant-legislation/
* Death by Rescue: *Analysis & research on Fortress Europe’s murderous
politics*: https://deathbyrescue.org/
* Family reunification drama for Europe:
http://www.globalgovernmentforum.com/family-reunification-dilemma-for-eu/
* Visualization of the *shifting routes to Europe*:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/05/02/the-shifting-sea-routes-of-europes-refugee-crisis-in-charts-and-maps/
* ‘The Orbanisation of EU asylum law’:
http://eulawanalysis.blogspot.gr/2016/05/the-orbanisation-of-eu-asylum-law.html?spref=tw
* Greece’s tale of 2 crisis:
http://webdoc.france24.com/greece-migrants-refugees-history-piraeus-lesbos/?platform=hootsuite
* *Statistics provided by statewatch*:
http://statewatch.org/eu-med-crisis-com-stats.htm
* ‘The world is building fences. Here’s why we should worry’:
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/05/the-world-is-building-fences-why-we-should-worry?utm_content=buffer9443b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
* *15 years of Fortress Europe* blog: http://15years.morizbuesing.com/
*Political**Actions:*
* Campaign to break deportation culture by The Voice:
http://thevoiceforum.org/node/4145
* NoBorderCamp 2016 in Thessaloniki 15 – 24th of July:
https://noborder2016.wordpress.com/
*Structural Background (Laws, Counceling, Camps, ect.)*
* *Map of the camps in Greece*:
http://google.org/crisismap/a/gmail.com/greece & about *how many
people are in which camps*: http://www.amna.gr/graphs.php?id=112411
& a *supporters map*:
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=z-ozuiaaxdI0.kR1bUAxgkvnE
* *Conditions in the camps reports*:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1My8Aj_Xg3VW46An73qOQbx9L153Q_4H8crzRw3ST8bg/mobilebasic
* FYI: LGBTQ_I Information’s in Greece:
http://www.refugeelegalaidinformation.org/turkey-lgbti-resources#sthash.Atbf2FMX.dpuf
* Information’s on *Family Reunion & Relocation from Greece*:
https://www.facebook.com/notes/refucomm-communication-and-information-for-refugees/1-family-reunion-from-greece-2-family-reunion-from-turkey-syrian-only-3-eu-reloc/221859624832514
* Information’s on *Asylum in Greece* (18 languages)
http://asylo.gov.gr/en/?page_id=99
* Information’s on the *Skype procedure*:
http://asylo.gov.gr/en/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/%CE%9D%CE%AD%CE%BF-%CE%A0%CF%81%CF%8C%CE%B3%CF%81%CE%B1%CE%BC%CE%BC%CE%B1-%CE%
9B%CE%B5%CE%B9%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%85%CF%81%CE%B3%CE%AF%CE%B1%CF%82-%CE%93%CF%81%CE%B1%CE%BC%CE%BC%CE%AE%CF%82-Skype-%CE%BA%CE%B1%CE%B9-%CE%A0%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%83%CE%AD%CE%BB%CE%B5%CF%85%CF%83%CE%B7%CF%82-%CE%9C%CE%95%CE%A4%CE%91%CE%A6%CE%A1%CE%91%CE%A3%CE%9C%CE%95%CE%9D%CE%97-28032016.pdf
* “Information’s on so called *voluntary returns*, committed by IOM’:
https://newsthatmoves.org/en/?p=2347
* (spanish) petetition against the Skype:
https://www.change.org/p/skype-no-nos-sirve-necesitamos-atenci%C3%B3n-en-persona-para-los-refugiados-en-grecia