📢 JOIN OUR TEAM Mobile Info Team is looking for a new Advocacy and Communications Manager to join our team. Consultancy-based in Thessaloniki, starting October 2026. Application deadline: 24 July. ✏️ More details here: www.mobileinfoteam.org/vacancies

For 10 years, MIT has been there for people on the move in Greece. Last year: 5,000+ people supported. 18 legal achievements. 1 lawyer fighting for people who deserve their freedom. We're raising funds to keep that fight going. Donate here: www.mobileinfoteam.org/donate-page-.... #MIT10years

📢 Today, MIT turns 10. For ten years, we've answered over 35,000 enquiries. We've reached hundreds of thousands of people with information about their rights. Today, we're seeing more and more people reaching out to us from detention. And we want to do more.

2025: detention, criminalisation, and a chilling effect on civil society

📢 JOIN OUR TEAM Mobile Info Team has two new open positions: Arabic Interpreter (part-time) & Legal Caseworker (full-time). We're accepting rolling applications for both, as we'd like them to start ASAP. More details and application instructions on our website: www.mobileinfoteam.org/vacancies.

2024: the New Pact, and Detention Landscapes launches

2023: a deadly year as we hone our advocacy

2022: two-tier protection, and we invest in our growth

1/2 🟠 BVMN’s March report is now online. borderviolence.eu/reports/bvmn... With contributions from our partner organisations & working groups, this special edition explains how specific groups of people on the move are made vulnerable by the systems that are meant to protect them.

2021: a year of raising our voice amid compounding challenges as access to asylum and accompanying rights remains limited

UPDATE: images published by #DetentionLandscapes reveal shocking conditions in Sintiki camp, Greece. Detainees have protested long detentions and degrading conditions for months. @mobileinfoteam.bsky.social @borderviolence.bsky.social @andrianifili.bsky.social www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/news...

2020: amidst Covid-19, Evros and the suspension of asylum applications, as well as the proposal for a New Pact on Migration and Asylum, our advocacy expands

2019: elections, and a more restrictive migration agenda

2018. Conditions in camps are dire, and the need for MIT's services is growing.

2017: The situation in Greece was developing rapidly, and so were we.

10 years, 10 weeks, 10 days: in July, Mobile Info Team turns 10. 🌟 Each week until then, join us as we reflect on our journey. We start in 2016, a turning point in Greece, and Europe more broadly.

1/3 🟠 BVMN’s February report is now online. borderviolence.eu/reports/bvmn... With contributions from our member organisations, partners and working groups, this edition covers, among other things: ❌ New EU Regulation on safe-third countries ❌ Closure of the Ušivak TRC

Shedding light on hidden detention sites with #DetentionLandscapes. 5️⃣Samos: ➡️ in a remote area of the island ➡️official capacity of 3,650 but overcrowding is frequent ➡️functions as reception facility but with a prison-like structure and new arrivals are held under temporary detention measures

Shedding light on hidden detention sites with #DetentionLandscapes. 4️⃣ Amygdaleza: ➡️opened in 2012, Greece’s 1st purpose-built detention camp ➡️2nd largest detention site in Greece- connected to a police training academy 15km from Athens ➡️detains men and women- asylum seekers and undocumented people

Shedding light on hidden detention sites with #DetentionLandscapes. 3️⃣ Xanthi: ➡️first detained undocumented people in 2012 ➡️remotely located in northern Greece - far from services ➡️detains men only - both undocumented and asylum seekers ➡️site previously functioned as a regional police academy

Shedding light on hidden detention sites with #DetentionLandscapes. 2️⃣Petrou Ralli: ➡️immigration detention facility in Athens ➡️opened in 2005 as one of 1st centres to detain migrants ➡️detainees report monotony, distress, neglect

Shedding light on hidden detention sites with #DetentionLandscapes. 1️⃣ Corinth: ➡️built in 2012 on a former military camp, 1hr from Athens ➡️largest immigration detention centre in Greece ➡️detains men who are undocumented/asylum seekers ➡️ criticised for poor conditions, overcrowding, ill-treatment

Immigration detention in Greece is a shady business. In 2024/25, #DetentionLandscapes collaborated with a 3D modelling specialist Boudewyn vD and a team of volunteers to visually recreate 5 immigration detention sites. detentionlandscapes.uwazi.io/en/page/8qm9...

1/3 🟠 BVMN’s December report is now online. borderviolence.eu/reports/bvmn... With contributions from our member organisations, partners and working groups, this edition covers, among other things: ❌ Conditions in the Lipa TRC

1/3 🟠 BVMN’s November report is now online. borderviolence.eu/reports/bvmn... This edition features a special contribution from @borderline-europe.bsky.social With contributions from our member organisations, partners and working groups, this edition covers, among other things:

📖 The statement on 'Psychological pressure' in Amygdaleza is now also available in Greek: www.mobileinfoteam.org/psychologica... With the English and Arabic versions available here: borderviolence.eu/reports/psyc... @borderviolence.bsky.social

1/3 🟠 BVMN’s August report is now online. borderviolence.eu/reports/bvmn... With contributions from our member organisations, partners and working groups, this edition covers, among other things: ❌ Fire in Obrenovac Asylum Center, in Serbia ❌ Use of dogs by Bulgarian police

🚨 Today, with MIT's support, BVMN (@borderviolence.bsky.social) reports on 'Psychological pressure' in Amygdaleza: over 30 people started a hunger strike this week, asking for the respect of their rights to apply for asylum and to fair and dignified treatment. borderviolence.eu/reports/psyc...

🚨 Today, MIT joins 200+ others in calling for the rejection of the EU’s proposed “Return Regulation”. Really about deportation, it will expand detention, fuel racial profiling & weaken safeguards. Europe needs dignity, care & solidarity — not punishment & profit at the cost of fundamental rights.

On #InternationalDayofDemocracy, we must ask: can democracy coexist with the systematic violation of refugee rights ❓ Short answer: No. Long answer 🧵

✏️ Augmenting our April report on police detention, short versions are now available in: English Arabic - العربية Urdu - اردو Farsi - فارسی Kurdish - Kurdî Greek - Eλληνικά French - Français As well as a dedicated briefing on the application of the EU’s Return & Reception Conditions Directives. 💪

1/5 🟠 BVMN’s May report is now online. borderviolence.eu/reports/bvmn... This is the first of a series of thematic reports, where we will look into overarching themes affecting people on the move across Europe. BVMN is against the use of immigration detention in all its forms.

🚨 JOINT STATEMENT: Addressing the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers’ (CM) last examination of the Greek asylum system under the M.S.S. and H.A. and Others v. Greece groups of cases. @bordercrim.bsky.social @borderviolence.bsky.social @ihaverights.bsky.social @equallegalaid.bsky.social

Joint statement by 72 organisations: The unlawful suspension of access to #asylum in #Greece must be immediately withdrawn #refugees #Crete Statement including all signatures: 👉 rsaegean.org/en/withdraw-... (1/7)

🚨 JOINT STATEMENT @borderviolence.bsky.social @ihaverights.bsky.social: We strongly condemn the Greek government’s new legislative amendment to suspend the processing of asylum applications for people arriving by sea from North Africa

Member organisations Collective Aid, @ihaverights.bsky.social, @mobileinfoteam.bsky.social, @legalcentrelesvos.bsky.social and Center for Legal Aid - Voice in Bulgaria are among 50+ signatories of a joint statement denouncing the concept of "Safe Third Country". www.amnesty.eu/news/eu-safe...

1/3 🟠 BVMN’s April report is now online. borderviolence.eu/reports/balk... With contributions from our member organisations, partners and working groups, this edition covers, among other things: ❌ Minors subject to violence during Croatian pushbacks to Bosnia-Herzegovina

The EU's recent 'safe country' and return proposals appear to be part of a broader strategy to externalise the EU’s migration management. With 50+ NGOs, we're calling on the EU and member states to reject any attempts to weaken protection for asylum seekers. 👉 www.rescue.org/eu/resource/...

World Refugee Day 2025 arrives in the midst of deep (geo)political uncertainty and an increasingly hostile environment for refugees in Greece:

The EU wants to expand deportations, including of children. The new DeportationRegulation fuels detention, criminalization, and digital surveillance. As the #ProtectNotSurveil coalition, we call on the EU to withdraw its proposal. Read out statement: borderviolence.eu/reports/the-...

📢 JOINT NGO STATEMENT: The Greek Ministry of Migration and Asylum must rescind the eviction order of people on the move from camps.

🚨 This week, the @ec.europa.eu published its review of the "safe third country" concept, including proposals that would remove key safeguards for people on the move. These include: ❌ The mandatory connection criteria ❌ The automatic suspensive effect of appeals against inadmissibility decisions

Members of European Parliament vote on the Europol reform report tomorrow. 🗳️ The #ProtectNotSurveil position paper explains why MEPs should VOTE AGAINST! ❌ edri.org/our-work/pro...

We call on MEPs to vote against the planned expansion of surveillance powers for #Europol Tuesday because it: ❌ fails to protect migrants or reduce border deaths ❌ is a power grab by Europol ❌ criminalises migrants & solidarity organisers #ProtectNotSurveil: protectnotsurveil.eu

European Parliament LIBE votes on the #Europol reform report next week Tuesday, 20 May. MEPs must vote against the expansion of Europol’s surveillance powers! 👏 Read & share the detailed #ProtectNotSurveil position paper now: ➡️ protectnotsurveil.eu

Site Profile: The Thessaloniki General Police Directorate (Megaro) ➡️Located in the western side of Thessaloniki ➡️Last visit by the CPT: 2019 ➡️Length of detention in testimonies: 8-46 days Site profile: detentionlandscapes.uwazi.io/en/entity/5w...

Site Profile: The Special Ηolding Facility of the Thessaloniki Aliens Police Directorate (Metagogon) ➡️Located in an old factory warehouse building ➡️Last visit by the CPT: 2016 ➡️Average length of detention: 36 days Site profile: detentionlandscapes.uwazi.io/en/entity/av...

1/2 🟠BVMN’s February report is now online. borderviolence.eu/reports/balk... With contributions from our member organisations, partners and working groups, this edition covers, among other things: ❌ Arrival of the "Schengen bus" and other surveillance equipment to Serbia

📢 Report: Greece’s Illegal Use of Police Stations to Detain Migrants Today, @mobileinfoteam.bsky.social, @bordercrim.bsky.social and the Border Violence Monitoring Network publish a new report on the detention of migrants in police stations in Greece ➡️ www.mobileinfoteam.org/police-stati...

Good to see #Syriza parliamentary question put to the ministry of migration on the ongoing lack of cash payments to asylum seekers in Greece 👇 syriza.gr/epikairi-ero...