Evros incidents subsequently led to stricter procedures and amendments of legislation photo: Marios Constantinides Occasioned by the Evros incidents, the current law was implemented with extreme stringency. The first 17 Afghans who were arrested were immediately taken to the district court under fragrant criminal procedures; the adult men received a sentence of 3.5 years in prison for illegal entry, without the right of suspension and a fine of 4.000 euros, the adult women received a sentence of 3 years in prison for illegal entry, with the right of suspension and a fine of 5.000 euros, while a significant number of minors received a notice of a pending trial for illegal entry, against the provisions of Geneva Convention and the Common European Asylum System. Due to the strict criminal procedures followed by the district court, the exact number of the individuals who have been sentenced remains unknown, since most of them were immediately transferred to judicial prisons at the mainland, such as to Komotini and Thiva prison facilities. The suspension of asylum applications that was immediately applied by an urgent legislative act for individuals who entered Greece illegally and were arrested by the Greek authorities after March 1st, 2020, depriveing these people of the right to express their will to apply for asylum, was a clear-cut violation of EU law and the UN convention on refugees; combined with the heavy militatizarion of the border zone, it led to very low arrivals through the Evros region during March and April. Specifically, in March there were approximately 350 arrivals through land borders, most of them arrested by the police forces of Alexandroupolis (approx. 190), of Orestiada (approx. 100), of Komotini (approx. 25) and by the coast guard (approx. 35). Main Countries of Origin of those people were: Turkey: 40%, Afghanistan: 40%, Iran : 10%, Syria : 10%. The most vulnerable cases concerned 11 | P a g e