30 FRONTIER EUROPE Human rights abuses on Greece’s border with Turkey Operation Aspida was around 800, according to information provided by the Orestiada and Alexandroupolis Police Directorates in the Evros region on 14 April and 16 April 2013 respectively. 8 Frontex, Annual Risk Analysis 2013, April 2013, p. 20, available at: http://frontex.europa.eu/assets/Publications/Risk_Analysis/FRAN_Q4_2012.pdf. 9 Relevant statistics are available on the website of the Greek Police: http://www.astynomia.gr/images/stories//2013/statistics13/stat_allod/etsynora.JPG. 10 Hurriyet Daily News, Refugee boat sinks in Aegean Sea: 1 dead, 5 missing, 6 June 2013, available at: http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/refugee-boat-sinks-in-aegean-sea-1-dead-5missing.aspx?pageID=238&nid=48314; EnetEnglish.gr Greek Independent Press, 6-year-old drowns off Farmakonisi coast, 15 May 2013, available at: http://www.enetenglish.gr/?i=news.en.article&id=920; Al Arabiya News, Syrian refugees drown on their way to Greece, 21 March 2013, available at: http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/2013/03/21/Syrian-refugees-drown-on-their-way-toGreece.html; Kayiki Press Release, Grief itself is not enough, 18 January 2013, available at: http://www.kayiki.org/2013/01/kayiki-press-release-grief-itself-is.html; Amnesty International (Livewire blog), ‘I want all the world to know about us,’ 18 February 2013, available at: http://livewire.amnesty.org/2013/02/18/i-want-all-the-world-to-know-about-us/; and Hurriyet Gundem, 63 göçmenin ölümüyle ilgili 9 kişi gözaltında, 22 May 2012, available at: http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/gundem/23343092.asp. 11 According to the latest information available on Frontex’ website on these two operations, the budget for the Poseidon Land operation (covering both Greece and Bulgaria’s borders with Turkey) in 2011 was almost €9 million. The budget for the Poseidon Sea operation in 2010 was over €12.4 million. Available at: http://www.frontex.europa.eu/operations/archiveof-operations/?year=&region=&type=&host=Greece. 12 Based on information provided by the Frontex Operational Coordinator in Alexandroupolis (in the Evros Region) on 17 April 2013. 13 Letter dated 6 June 2013 from the Executive Director of Frontex to Amnesty International European Institutions Office in response to a query dated 13 May 2013 stated that “[t]he detailed figures about deployment of experts and technical means of an ongoing joint operation cannot be publicly disclosed, as they might jeopardize the fulfilment of the operation objectives.” 14 Regulation (EU) No 1168/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2011 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 2007/2004 establishing a European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the member states of the European Union, available at: http://frontex.europa.eu/assets/About_Frontex/frontex_amended_regulation_2011.pdf. 15 Charter of Fundamental Rights of The European Union (2000/C 364/01), available at: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/charter/pdf/text_en.pdf. Frontex, Frontex Response to Ombudsman own-initiative inquiry 01/5/2012/BEH-MHZ, 29 May 2012, available at: http://www.ombudsman.europa.eu/en/cases/correspondence.faces/en/11758/html.bookmark. 16 Amnesty International July 2013 Index: 25/008/2013