What happened after the pushback of 7-8 July: According to information provided by the asylum seeker’s family and her lawyer in Turkey, after her forced return to Turkey, she was arrested by the Turkish authorities and imprisoned in Edirne (Adrianoupoli) in Turkey. She was arrested by Turkish soldiers at 00:45 on 8 July after she managed to swim and reach the Turkish bank of the river. On July 9, the 10th Criminal Court of Diyarbakir issued a warrant for her arrest, attached in the Edirne Prosecutor’s Decision. On 11 August, she was transferred to Şakran Women’s Closed Prison in Izmir, Turkey, where she remains detained at the time of writing. There is no information regarding the whereabouts of the other victims of this pushback operation. An application has been filed for this particular pushback victim before the ECtHR against Greece for violation of articles 2, 3, 5, and 13 of the Convention. 59 I. Pulled back to Turkey with the use of tree trunks Date of arrival: 27 April 2022 Date of ECtHR’s interim measures: 29 April 2022 Date of pullback operation: 30 April 2022 Relevant application(s) before ECtHR: A.D. and others v. Greece *Relative interim measures: S.S. and others v. Greece Essential aspects of the case: pullback with the use of tree trunks, sexual assault of female asylum seekers inside Turkish informal detention facilities. C. THE PULLBACK OPERATIONS DESCRIBED IN PUSHBACK VICTIMS’ TESTIMONIES Image 7: GPS Coordinates: 41°19’34.9”N 26°35’44.8”E, as shared by the asylum seekers In certain cases, the detailed testimonies of asylum seekers (victims of pushbacks) shared with GCR and the ECtHR in the context of the aforementioned applications and interim measures proceedings before the Court, describe the Turkish authorities’ pullback operations in addition to the Greek authorities’ pushback operations. During said “pullback” operations, the asylum seekers were pulled back from islets in the Evros river to Turkey by Turkish border guards. Stranded again on an islet after the pushback of 14 April: On 28 April 2022, a group of asylum seekers that were pushed back to Turkey on 14 April (see section B. Pushback of 14 April 2022, above, pp. x), contacted and informed GCR, via WhatsApp, that 28 of them, together with a group of 12 Syrian refugees, re-entered Greece and found themselves once again stranded on an islet in the Evros river (see graphic). GCR immediately informed the Greek 59 32 See Tables in the Annex with the main aspects of the above presented cases categorized. AT EUROPE’S BORDERS: BETWEEN IMPUNITY AND CRIMINALIZATION