pushbacks

In today's episode, we speak with Klaas van Dijken, one of the co-founders of the investigative journalism organisation Lighthouse Reports. 

Klaas talks to us about two recent investigations he and his team worked on:

• How asylum seekers are held in secret prisons on commercial ships to facilitate illegal pushbacks from Italy to Greece, and

• How refugees are being arbitrarily detained and tortured at secret facilities along EU borders before being illegally forced back across borders.

---Get in touch---
Twitter: @FleetCivil
Mastodon: @civilfleet@kolektiva.social
info@civilfleet.com

Support: 
ko-fi.com/civilfleet

---Show Notes---

Lighthouse Reports website can be found here: lighthousereports.nl

To read the two stories discussed in this episode, see here: 
• Detained below deck: bit.ly/3R97fVF
• Europe’s Black Sites: bit.ly/3HAlY8H 

Find Lighthouse Reports on Twitter here: @LHreports

Here's a BBC news story from 2014 on the ECHR ruling on Italy's practice of sending people back to Greece: bbc.in/3DjDMT9  

What is the Dublin Agreement? Read this explainer by InfoMigrants: bit.ly/3WQj9oI

Here's a report from The Brussels Times on the new Frontex chief Hans Leijtens saying the agency needs to "restore trust": bit.ly/408AUlH 

Klaas mentions a report Lighthouse published on Frontex's involvement in illegal pushbacks. You can read that here: bit.ly/3XGhtPv 

Ben mentions the 200 missing asylum seekers children in Britain. Read about that here: bit.ly/3DjeB3d 

Klaas briefly mentions No Name Kitchen. Find out more about them here: nonamekitchen.org and/or check out episode 6 of The Civil Fleet podcast

In today's episode, we speak with Klaas van Dijken, one of the co-founders of the investigative journalism organisation Lighthouse Reports. 

Klaas talks to us about two recent investigations he and his team worked on:

• How asylum seekers are held in secret prisons on commercial ships to facilitate illegal pushbacks from Italy to Greece, and

• How refugees are being arbitrarily detained and tortured at secret facilities along EU borders before being illegally forced back across borders.

---Get in touch---
Twitter: @FleetCivil
Mastodon: @civilfleet@kolektiva.social
info@civilfleet.com

Support: 
ko-fi.com/civilfleet

---Show Notes---

Lighthouse Reports website can be found here: lighthousereports.nl

To read the two stories discussed in this episode, see here: 
• Detained below deck: bit.ly/3R97fVF
• Europe’s Black Sites: bit.ly/3HAlY8H 

Find Lighthouse Reports on Twitter here: @LHreports

Here's a BBC news story from 2014 on the ECHR ruling on Italy's practice of sending people back to Greece: bbc.in/3DjDMT9  

What is the Dublin Agreement? Read this explainer by InfoMigrants: bit.ly/3WQj9oI

Here's a report from The Brussels Times on the new Frontex chief Hans Leijtens saying the agency needs to "restore trust": bit.ly/408AUlH 

Klaas mentions a report Lighthouse published on Frontex's involvement in illegal pushbacks. You can read that here: bit.ly/3XGhtPv 

Ben mentions the 200 missing asylum seekers children in Britain. Read about that here: bit.ly/3DjeB3d 

Klaas briefly mentions No Name Kitchen. Find out more about them here: nonamekitchen.org and/or check out episode 6 of The Civil Fleet podcast

Journaliste Ingeborg Beugel moest een aantal weken geleden noodgedwongen uit Griekenland vertrekken. Tijdens een persconferentie stelde ze een kritische vraag over de vluchtelingencrisis aan premier Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Bedreigingen, een steen naar haar hoofd en intimidatie waren het gevolg. ‘Een ware heksenjacht’, volgens Ingeborg. Ze wil terug, maar het kan nog niet. Wat is er aan de hand in Griekenland? Hoe staat het ervoor met de persvrijheid in het land? In de podcast van deze week vertelt Ingeborg over haar redenen voor het stellen van de simpele vraag: when will you stop lying?

Productie: Kees van den Bosch & Jitka Marks

Zie het privacybeleid op https://art19.com/privacy en de privacyverklaring van Californië op https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Om Europa dwars te zitten, stuurt Wit-Rusland duizenden migranten de grens met Polen over. In het grensgebied is sinds augustus een noodtoestand afgekondigd, journalisten en hulporganisaties worden geweerd, waardoor het onduidelijk is wat zich daar afspeelt. Oost-Europacorrespondent Emilie van Outeren beschrijft de grote geopolitieke strijd die hieraan ten grondslag ligt, met migranten als levende wapens.

Gast: Emilie van Outeren

Presentatie: Floor Boon

Productie: Weike van Koolwijk

Montage: Jeroen Jaspers

Meer lezen over hoe migranten gelokt worden om naar Wit-Rusland te komen? https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2021/10/21/vanuit-beiroet-leidt-de-weg-naar-europa-door-minsk-a4062694 

Zie het privacybeleid op https://art19.com/privacy en de privacyverklaring van Californië op https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

For this re-released episode we've included our original interview, completed in late 2018, and we catch up with Bruno for a detailed update about his current work with No Name Kitchen. If you want to skip to the new interview from April 2021 it starts at: 43:43 

Bruno Morán is from Asturias, Spain, and is a co-founder of No Name Kitchen, an NGO that provides food, sleeping bags, basic necessities, and a community space for refugees in transit along the Serbian and Bosnian borders with Croatia.

In addition to providing basic services, No Name Kitchen has also become a primary point of contact for those who have been pushed back from the Croatian border, and as a result the organization has found itself involved in documenting and sharing the growing number of reported abuses by the Croatian border police against those who are seeking to cross into the EU, people who have no legal means of registering themselves in bordering countries.

In this episode we cover what is happening on the ground, the practical challenges of running a small front line organization, and some advice on how you can get involved in global events in your community.

This show is the audio-only version of a live chat hosted on July 10th, featuring guests Milena Zajović from Are You Syrious?, Douglas Herman from ReFocus Media Labs, and Carmen Dupont from Lesvos Solidarity - Pikpa.

You can catch our weekly-(ish) live chat discussions most Fridays on the Latitude Adjustment FB page, or you can check our Live Video Chats archive to watch and share them later.

Also, we’d like to formally introduce the show’s new co-host, Laila Mokhiber!

Be sure to catch our four-part podcast series including field reports from Moria Camp on Lesvos, and from the Greek mainland.