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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · 4d

📢 We are looking for individuals to join our Board.

The ideal candidate is someone with experience working/volunteering/interacting with the Network.

Deadline is this Sunday!

More details here: borderviolence.eu/reports/bvmn...

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ActionAid EU @actionaideu.bsky.social · 25d

We join 200+ organisations, to call on
@europarl.europa.eu to reject the proposal for a new "Return" Regulation (aka Deportation Regulation).

❌ Offshore “return hubs”
❌ Expanded detention
❌ Surveillance & racial profiling

Read our joint statement ➡️ actionaid.org/publications...

More than 200 Organisations: Inhumane Deportation Rules Should be Rejected

On 11 March 2025, the European Commission presented a new proposal for a Return Regulation to replace the current Return Directive. Behind the euphemistic name, the proposal outlines coercive, traumat...

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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · 25d

Read our joint statement here:

borderviolence.eu/reports/more...

@ihaverights.bsky.social @legalcentrelesvos.bsky.social #CenterForLegalAid @mobileinfoteam.bsky.social

More than 200 Organisations Inhumane Deportation Rules Should be Rejected

On 11 March 2025, the European Commission presented a new proposal for a Return Regulation to replace the current Return Directive. Behind the euphemistic name, the proposal outlines coercive, traumat...

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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · 25d

Today, along with 200+ organisations, we call on @europarl.europa.eu to reject the proposal for a new Returns Regulation.

Let's call this this new Regulation for what it actually is: a Deportation Regulation.

@melissacamara.bsky.social @estrellagalan.bsky.social @muriellelaurent.bsky.social

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Mobile Info Team @mobileinfoteam.bsky.social · Sep 10

All additional documents can be found at the same link as the report: www.mobileinfoteam.org/police-stati...

@bordercrim.bsky.social @borderviolence.bsky.social

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Mobile Info Team @mobileinfoteam.bsky.social · Sep 10

✏️ Augmenting our April report on police detention, short versions are now available in:

English
Arabic - العربية
Urdu - اردو
Farsi - فارسی
Kurdish - Kurdî
Greek - Eλληνικά
French - Français

As well as a dedicated briefing on the application of the EU’s Return & Reception Conditions Directives. 💪

Mobile Info Team @mobileinfoteam.bsky.social · Apr 16

📢 Report: Greece’s Illegal Use of Police Stations to Detain Migrants

Today, @mobileinfoteam.bsky.social, @bordercrim.bsky.social and the Border Violence Monitoring Network publish a new report on the detention of migrants in police stations in Greece

➡️ www.mobileinfoteam.org/police-stati...

Report: Greece's Illegal Use of Police Stations to Detain Migrants — Mobile Info Team

Today, Mobile Info Team, Border Criminologies and the Border Violence Monitoring Network publish a new report on the use of police cells for long-term detention of migrants in Greece.

www.mobileinfoteam.org

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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · Sep 5

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Read our full trial monitoring report here: borderviolence.eu/reports/cret...

Crete Trials Monitoring - 3 September 2025

Greek version below --- For the first time, trial observers from the Border Violence Monitoring Network (BVMN) attended hearings at the One-Member Appeals Court of Crete seated in Heraklion, alongside...

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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · Sep 5

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BVMN monitored the trials of people on the move accused of so-called smuggling at the Appeals Court in Heraklion, in Crete.

All 4 Sudanese defendants were acquitted, but unequal sentencing to other nationals jeopardises the principle of equality before the law.

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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · Sep 3

Read our trial monitoring report here: borderviolence.eu/reports/cret...

Crete Trials monitoring - 1 September 2025

Returning to the One-Member Appeals Court of Crete in Chania after the August judicial break, trial observers from the Border Violence Monitoring Network (BVMN) noted once again the systemic criminali...

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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · Sep 3

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BVMN travelled to Crete on September 1 to attend 25 trials of 36 people on the move accused of so-called smuggling, in cases dating back all the way to November and December. Only 3 out of the 25 cases were heard, and the rest was postponed to a later date.

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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · Aug 20

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Big thank you to
@ihaverights.bsky.social #collective_aid @mobileinfoteam.bsky.social #blindspots_ev #rigardu_ev #PushBackAlarmAustria #VoiceInBulgaria #MissionWings #WeAreMonitoring @legalcentrelesvos.bsky.social #InfoPark @humanrightsobs.bsky.social #GlocalRoots #CalaisFoodCollective

Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · Aug 20

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❌ Geopolitical tension in the Aegean and increase of arrivals in Crete
❌ Degrading reception conditions in Kos and Samos CCACs
❌ Eid al-Adha holiday marked by increased migration checkpoints nationwide in Turkey
❌ Evictions of informal living sites in Calais and Dunkirk

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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · Aug 20

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🟠 BVMN’s June report is now online.

borderviolence.eu/reports/balk...

With contributions from our member organisations, partners and working groups, this edition covers, among other things:

❌ Relocations and rising uncertainty around Krnjača closure in Serbia

Balkan Regional Report - June 2025

This report brings together first-hand testimonies from a range of countries in the region to look at the way European Union states and other actors are affecting systemic violence towards people cros...

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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · Aug 12

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Big thank you to
@ihaverights.bsky.social #collective_aid
@mobileinfoteam.bsky.social #blindspots_ev #rigardu_ev #PushBackAlarmAustria #VoiceInBulgaria #MissionWings #WeAreMonitoring @legalcentrelesvos.bsky.social #InfoPark @humanrightsobs.bsky.social #GlocalRoots

Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · Aug 12

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❌ Prolonged and illegal use of detention in police stations in Greece
❌ CCACs in Vastria, Samos and Kos
❌ Overview of the detention situation in Turkey
❌ CRAs: Towards a carceralisation of administrative detention in France

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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · Aug 12

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With contributions from our member organisations, partners and working groups, this edition covers, among other things:

❌ Overview of the detention/deportation facilities in Serbia
❌ Lukavica Detention Centre in Bosnia-Herzegovina
❌ Vordernberg Detention Centre in Austria

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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · Aug 12

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This edition looks at the detention conditions and practices faced by POM in multiple countries in Europe, in the context of increasing externalisation and securitisation of borders by the EU and its member states.

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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · Aug 12

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🟠 BVMN’s May report is now online.

borderviolence.eu/reports/bvmn...

This is the first of a series of thematic reports, where we will look into overarching themes affecting people on the move across Europe.

BVMN is against the use of immigration detention in all its forms.

BVMN Monthly Report - May 2025: Detention

This is the first of a series of thematic reports, where we will look into overarching themes affecting people on the move across Europe. This report looks into the detention conditions and practices ...

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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · Aug 7

In this blog post, researcher Dan Schoolar reveals how the UK has been laying the groundwork for the establishment of its own deportation centres in the Western Balkans, most likely in Serbia.

Read it here: borderviolence.eu/blog/no-rwan...

Editing: Emilija Krivosic
Graphic design: Marlene Janke

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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · Jul 28

Today, some 30 organisations, including member and partner organisations of the Network, have launched the "Where We Rise" campaign, a coalition call to raise €1 million for people on the move seeking safety.

Donate here: forrefugees.donorsupport.co/page/where-w...

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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · Jul 24

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You can read a full transcript of his intervention, as well as watch the full panel here:

borderviolence.eu/reports/bvmn...

BVMN UN Advocacy intervention at the panel: "Protecting Migrants’ Rights at Borders: Independent Monitoring in EU and Global Contexts"

On 25 June 2025, our United Nations Advocacy Coordinator Joseph Cripps spoke at a panel titled

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Border Violence Monitoring Network @borderviolence.bsky.social · Jul 24

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Last month, our United Nations Advocacy Coordinator spoke at a panel titled "Protecting Migrants’ Rights at Borders" organised by the
@fesonline.bsky.social on the margins of the 59th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council.

These were his closing remarks.

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Mobile Info Team @mobileinfoteam.bsky.social · Jul 23

Read the full statement here: www.mobileinfoteam.org/joint-statem...

Joint Statement on M.S.S and H.A supervision — Mobile Info Team

Joint statement on M.S.S and H.A supervision

www.mobileinfoteam.org

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Mobile Info Team @mobileinfoteam.bsky.social · Jul 23

The decision of the CM to close the supervision of asylum procedures marks the loss of a critical mechanism of oversight into a defective and dehumanising system, at a time when the right of access to asylum is facing steady political erosion.

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Mobile Info Team @mobileinfoteam.bsky.social · Jul 23

These include unstable access to asylum, chronic delays in asylum procedures, frequent technical issues with the online registration platform, the arbitrary use of the 'safe third country' concept, and issues with the effectiveness and accessibility of appeals procedures, among others.

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