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

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 wearesolomon.com/mag/format/f...

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 ⬇️

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-...

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 wearesolomon.com/el/mag/forma...

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...

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-...

Frontex and Spanish police claim they do not covertly interrogate newly arrived migrants. But evidence we obtained suggests otherwise, casting serious doubts about compliance with EU data protection rules and the alleged voluntary nature of 'debriefing' interviews. elpais.com/espana/2025-...

Frontex and Spanish police claim they do not covertly interrogate newly arrived migrants. But evidence we obtained suggests otherwise, casting serious doubts about compliance with EU data protection rules and the alleged voluntary nature of 'debriefing' interviews. elpais.com/espana/2025-...

🇨🇿#CzechRepublic: In an important show of international solidarity, 262 Czech journalists from 66 newsrooms, including 23 editors-in-chief & some of the biggest names in Czech journalism, have called on Czech President & PM to support journalists in #Gaza. buff.ly/fFhLQmZ

"To generate knowledge in the context of hunger is to think through pain. To teach students who have not eaten and still tell them their voices matter. To insist, against all odds, that Gaza still thinks, still questions, still creates. That, in itself, is an act of resistance."

"Do not forget me, Sara Awad, a Palestinian student, whose biggest dream is to finish her degree in English literature and become a professional journalist... Do not forget how fiercely we resisted and held on to our homes and land, even when the world all but abandoned us." aje.io/ymvlk3

"What hits you first is the exhaustion carved into every face. The sickly pallor. The terrifying weight loss ravaging everyone, yes, including me." www.thenation.com/article/worl...

For years, human rights advocates have warned of the criminalisation of migrants & activists at Europe’s borders. With @balkanizator.bsky.social & @lolahierro.bsky.social we shed light on the opaque role of Frontex and Europol in drawing thousands into this dragnet. wearesolomon.com/mag/format/i...

More evidence of Europol's apparent disregard for legal norms and boundaries - this time from Lesvos, where its officers appear to be behaving like secret intelligence agents, misusing Frontex activities to interrogate migrants.

Read this passage, please, about trying to provide therapy for trauma in Gaza, even though it should make you feel like you are stabbing needles into your eyes. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

More evidence of Europol's apparent disregard for legal norms and boundaries - this time from Lesvos, where its officers appear to be behaving like secret intelligence agents, misusing Frontex activities to interrogate migrants.

You would think Frontex would be a bit more reticent about celebrating a collaboration based on violent pushbacks, beatings, and degrading treatment of migrants - as documented by its own Fundamental Rights Officer in more than 25 Serious Incident Reports since 2023.

🚨 New investigation co-authored by our colleague @stavinoha.bsky.social: EU agencies #Frontex & #Europol unlawfully shared data, sweeping up migrants and #HumanRights defenders. Published in @elpais.com, @lemonde.fr, Solomon, @netzpolitik.org Read more: english.elpais.com/internationa...

You would think Frontex would be a bit more reticent about celebrating a collaboration based on violent pushbacks, beatings, and degrading treatment of migrants - as documented by its own Fundamental Rights Officer in more than 25 Serious Incident Reports since 2023.

41 MEPs call upon the European Commission to initiate an independent inquiry into large-scale unlawful transfers of personal data between @frontex.bsky.social and @europol.europa.eu following our investigation for El Pais, Le Monde, Solomon, and Netzpolitik.

Based on our investigation with @lolahierro.bsky.social and @balkanizator.bsky.social into years of unlawful personal data transfers between Frontex and Europol, under the guise of EU 'counter-smuggling' efforts. english.elpais.com/internationa...

Landmark ruling in Belgium! Today, a Brussels court ruled that the Flemish government must block transit to Israel of all goods that can be used in military equipment, citing Israel's breaches of int'l law. There can be no business as usual with a country committing genocide.

You'd think that Frontex-the EU's €1 billion border and *coastguard* agency-would manage to cover at least the basics of humanitarian assistance. Apparently not. Apparently, they'd have much to learn from the grassroots SAR teams they crowded out from the shores of Greek islands ten years ago.

For years Frontex gathered data and automatically passed it unlawfully to Europol. With @stavinoha.bsky.social & @lolahierro.bsky.social we investigated how this dragnet scooped up thousands of people, migrants and EU activists. wearesolomon.com/mag/format/i...

I feel this scoop did not get all the attention it deserves yet:

41 MEPs call upon the European Commission to initiate an independent inquiry into large-scale unlawful transfers of personal data between @frontex.bsky.social and @europol.europa.eu following our investigation for El Pais, Le Monde, Solomon, and Netzpolitik.

Great work by @stavinoha.bsky.social and @balkanizator.bsky.social shedding light on a widely overlooked (and unlawful) programme to feed Europol's database with data collected by Frontex, including those of activists and journalists.

"The politicians and journalists who were hitherto untroubled by the industrial-scale killing of Gazans suddenly discovered a faith in the sanctity of life, and their imaginations took flight." Beyond Glastonbury’s Gaza Controversy by @idreesahmad.bsky.social. newlinesmag.com/argument/bey...

"To repeat: simply to say the words 'I stand with Palestine Action' is now an offence. If I were to say those words, I could be sent to jail. So could you. And so could you, and so could you. And so could everyone."

Cross-border investigation: @lemonde.fr, @elpais.com, and @netzpolitik.org reveal how, between 2016 and 2023, @frontex.bsky.social illegally transferred the personal data of over 13,000 people to Europol. Published by @wearesolomon.bsky.social 👇 wearesolomon.com/mag/format/i...

Here is how #Frontex unlawfully shared thousands of people’s personal data with #Europol Investigation conducted by Solomon, the French newspaper Le Monde, the Spanish newspaper El País, and the German outlet Netzpolitik. wearesolomon.com/mag/format/i...

For years, human rights advocates have warned of the criminalisation of migrants & activists at Europe’s borders. With @balkanizator.bsky.social & @lolahierro.bsky.social we shed light on the opaque role of Frontex and Europol in drawing thousands into this dragnet. wearesolomon.com/mag/format/i...

❗In the name of 'combating migrant smugglers', the European Union's border agency, Frontex, spent years collecting information on migrants and civil society activists deemed 'suspect,' before passing it on to Europol.

NEW: an investigation reveals that Frontex unlawfully shared thousands of people's data with Europol. Frontex decided to label as “suspects” anyone mentioned during the "debriefing interviews" conducted at disembarkation points at EU’s borders. 🧵Why it matters wearesolomon.com/mag/format/i...

Frontex hat jahrelang personenbezogene Daten gesammelt und unrechtmäßig an Europol weitergeleitet. Tausende, darunter EU-Bürger:innen, die Geflüchtete unterstützen, gerieten durch groß angelegte „verdeckte Verhöre“ in ein wachsendes System der Kriminalisierung. netzpolitik.org/2025/gefluec...

"Frontex collected personal data for years through covert interrogations of migrants after their arrival in Europe that lacked basic legal guarantees" Apostolis Fotiadis, @stavinoha.bsky.social + Lola Hierro expose another scandal involving Frontex and migrants' rights elpais.com/internaciona...

Con @balkanizator.bsky.social y @stavinoha.bsky.social publico hoy esta investigación en @elpais.com acerca de las prácticas ilícitas de @frontex.bsky.social en la obtención y el manejo de datos personales de migrantes y activistas. elpais.com/internaciona...

Just received news that 27 people have been arrested in Parliament Square under the Terrorism Act 2000 for holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action". This is real police state behaviour.

It appears that @frontex.bsky.social has learnt absolutely nothing about transparency since the Legerri era, as it continues to keep internal deliberations about rights violations secret from the public. Transparency still appears to be considered an optional add-on, not a fundamental right.

It appears that @frontex.bsky.social has learnt absolutely nothing about transparency since the Legerri era, as it continues to keep internal deliberations about rights violations secret from the public. Transparency still appears to be considered an optional add-on, not a fundamental right.

It's taken some 18 months, and the intervention of the @ombudsman.europa.eu to get @europol.europa.eu to disclose this one sentence - the agency's fundamental rights officer calling out casual racism in internal reporting. This is not just a colossal waste of public resources...

The new migration minister in Greece, Thanos Plevris, who succeeded the previous minister on Friday, has previously reportedly stated the following: “border security cannot exist if there are no casualties and, to be clear, if there are no deaths.” www.politico.eu/article/gree...

The 78-year old Italian Emilio De Capitani is a gamekeeper turned poacher — going from working for the European Parliament, to using every legal trick in the book to try to force open the ‘black box’ of EU decision making.

I also stumbled across this truly disturbing Frontex publication last year and made an FOI asking for correspondence about its creation: prd.frontex.europa.eu/document/cor... it doesn't reveal much, though, beyond how completely normal and routine the book's creators apparently seem to think it was

Why exactly does @theguardian.com feature ads, and thus benefit financially, from the Israeli government advertising agency in times of genocide? How exactly are ads like this in line with its own advertising policy (let alone basic decency)?

Interesting: Despite the relentlessly negative media coverage, most people in the UK want to stay in the European Convention on Human Rights👇 🔗 yougov.co.uk/topics/inter... via @yougov.co.uk #ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms

Why exactly does @theguardian.com feature ads, and thus benefit financially, from the Israeli government advertising agency in times of genocide? How exactly are ads like this in line with its own advertising policy (let alone basic decency)?

Human rights lawyer Nicoletta Charalambidou writes about how "voluntary returns" of Syrians from Cyprus are neither voluntary nor dignified for @bordercrim.bsky.social: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi... Also mentions the investigation by @hopeamelie.bsky.social and I into that very same scheme