NEWSROOM BORDERS

The Borders newsroom uses collaborative journalism to report on human rights abuses at the world’s borders and hold the powerful to account. It detects and decodes disinformation and empowers investigative journalism in a hostile context. It digs up the evidence needed for a public debate on challenges to fundamental rights and the rule of law.

The lead smugglers behind the Pylos shipwreck are closely linked to General Khalifa Haftar, the Libyan warlord who EU leaders are partnering with to curb migration
20.07.2023

Smuggler, Warlord, EU ally

The lead smugglers behind the Pylos shipwreck are closely linked to General Khalifa Haftar, the Libyan warlord who EU leaders are partnering with to curb migration

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29.06.2023

Drowning in Lies

Greece tries to cover up its own role in the Pylos shipwreck by tampering with evidence

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02.06.2023

The Crotone Cover Up

Italy lied about its role in a shipwreck that killed 94 people – including 35 children – and the EU border agency Frontex helped cover it up

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18.01.2023

Detained below deck

Asylum seekers held in secret cells on ferries between Greece and Italy

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08.12.2022

Europe’s Black Sites

Refugees arbitrarily detained, tortured at secret facilities in EU

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05.12.2022

Shot for Seeking Asylum

First video of live ammunition being used against asylum seekers in EU

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28.06.2022

“We were slaves”

Greece uses asylum seekers to forcibly return migrants to Turkey

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02.09.2021

Moria: After the Fire

Year in the life of survivors of blaze that destroyed EU’s largest refugee camp

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23.06.2020

Masked men

Clandestine state forces behind most violent pushbacks, according to new evidence

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16.06.2020

Cast Adrift

Greek coast guard intercepts asylum seekers, abandons them on life rafts

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08.05.2020

Torment in Turkey

Asylum seekers funneled to EU border are pawns in power game

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