Alleged Violations of the Convention: Art.2, Art. 3, Art. 5 ECHR
Essential Aspects of the case: pushback with the use of firearms by the
Greek authorities before the pullback by the Turkish authorities
asylum seekers were at the aforementioned location, indicated to the Greek
authorities and the ECtHR, the Greek
authorities did not locate or rescue the
asylum seekers or grant them access
to international protection. For all of
these cases65 ECtHR ordered the Greek
government not to remove the asylum
seekers from Greece until further notice
and to provide them with food, water
and adequate medical care as needed
until further notice.
Image 8: GPS location of asylum seekers
shared with GCR via WhatsApp on 10 May:
41°19’33.1”N 26°35’41.4”E
62 Syrians including 18 children
stranded helpless on the islet: In the
early hours of 10 May 2022, GCR was
informed that 62 Syrian asylum seekers64 (among them 18 children), entered
Greece again and were stranded on an
islet in Evros river (see graphic). The
asylum seekers told GCR that they did
not have food, water or supplies to survive. GCR informed the Greek authorities about the presence of 62 people on
the islet and asked them to comply with
the previous, extended and new ECtHR
interim measures decisions, to locate
and rescue all of them and to provide
them water, food and access to the asylum procedure. However, despite the
fact that from 10 May until 14 May, the
Detected but not rescued by the Greek
authorities: On 16 May, and while GCR
had lost contact with the group, one of
the asylum seekers66 informed GCR that
most of the refugees of the group had
been in Turkey since 14 May. According
to the description of the facts by the
aforementioned asylum seeker: On 12
May, at approximately 13:00, Greek vehicles appeared but left without making contact with the asylum seekers.
Subsequently, they appeared again at
16:00 and then at 20:00. The next day,
Greek vehicles appeared once more at
8:30 and then at 11:00. The Greek vehicles re-appeared 2 or 3 more times
during the day. Meanwhile, people were
urgently asking the persons in the vehicles for help, they were extremely
scared, distressed, thirsty and hungry.
Some of the children needed urgent
medical care. However, the Greek authorities did not intervene or rescue the
asylum seekers.
The aforementioned 62 asylum seekers were 16 people out of the 37 refugees of the A.D. and Others
v. Greece, together with 7 out of 12 applicants in S.S. and Others v. Greece (21039/22) and the 39 applicants of the
F.R. and Others v. Greece case (23128/22).
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65
Application no.21039/22 S.S. and Others v. Greece, Application no 18940/22 A.D. and Others v.
Greece, Application no 23128/22, F.R. and Others v. Greece.
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Applicant in the S.S. and Others v. Greece case before the ECtHR.
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