Use of sexual violence during informal detention: After 20 to 25 minutes, at approximately 01:00, they arrived at a Border Police Station, a building with 2-3 floors, probably Neo Cheimonio in Orestiada. The asylum seekers were told, in English, to get out of the vans quickly and quietly. When they exited, they saw some of the men in military and police uniforms, all of them holding guns. Once again the people were separated into a group of women and children and a group of men. They were ordered to take off their clothes, underwear and shoes. The women and men were mocked and harassed by approximately four men in military uniforms who used a stick to scratch their genitalia. Afterwards, they used the same stick to rape the men, while they used their fingers to rape the women in front of the children. Subsequently, they assaulted them by throwing ice cold water on them. A woman in police uniform led the women and children inside the building and ordered them to put their clothes back on quickly. They never got their shoes back. The men got back only their clothes, and were taken inside the building to a small room with a squat toilet, which could not be used. Soon after, men, women and children were locked up in one room. Everyone was asking desperately for water and food, but to no avail. Final stages of the illegal and violent operation: All asylum seekers remained unofficially and unlawfully detained until the early morning, when the final stages of the pushback operation to Turkey began. After being forced out of the building, they saw 18 30 more informal detainees stripped of their clothes and shoes. A larger military van transported the group together with other asylum seekers to an unknown location near the Evros river. There were more than 100 passengers in the military van. When they arrived near the river coast, people were violently forced out of the van. They saw a large number of people wearing uniforms and full face masks. A woman in the group summoned the courage to speak up, saying “We want to apply for international protection in Greece’’ and begged them not to push them back to Turkey. However, one of the men closed her mouth with his hand, ordering her to remain silent. Another asylum seeker was carrying his son, who started crying with fear. The masked men were enraged and ordered the father to make his child stop crying. A person that refused to exit the van, was beaten violently. When everyone was out of the van, they started shouting “asylum”, but to no avail. Once again, the asylum seekers were divided in groups and were forcibly returned to Turkey. After the Pushback of 14 April: On 10 June, GCR submitted before the ECtHR an application against Greece for violation of articles 2, 3 and 5 of the Convention. Some of the 37 victims of the aforementioned pushback re-entered Greece three more times, and were stranded again on an islet in the Evros river. In two cases, they were pulled back by Turkish border guards together with two other groups of Syrians (see “Pullback Cases” below). The third time, while being stranded on an islet for 10 AT EUROPE’S BORDERS: BETWEEN IMPUNITY AND CRIMINALIZATION