In-depth: There are hopes that the long judicial fight to hear victims at the European Court of Human Rights could change the illegal policy of pushbacks.
Strasbourg – Greece has been interrogated by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) about its “systemic pushback” practice for the first time and the verdict concerning the cases of two asylum seekers, who were sent back to Turkey, is due to be announced in the coming months.
The controversial Greek practice has been slammed for being a “de facto border state policy” by Amnesty International, the…