3 July 2012. Thousands of protection seekers try to cross the sea from Greece to Italy every year.
If they manage to arrive in Italy however, they are immediately returned to Greece without any individual assessment of their cases, without any legal safeguards, the report HUMAN CARGO - Arbitrary readmissions from the Italian sea ports to Greece by PRO ASYL and the Greek Council for Refugees has revealed.
Just like most other EU Member States, Italy has officially stopped returning people to Greece under the Dublin system, since the European Court for Human Rights in January 2011 determined Greece not to be a safe country for asylum seekers. However these massive arbitrary readmissions to Greece are carried out in a systematic way in direct violation of that ruling.
Read the press release in full here
Read the report here
