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.
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01.12.2023
Europe’s Nameless Dead
As more people try to reach Western Europe through the Balkans, taking increasingly dangerous routes to evade border police, many are dying without a trace
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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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06.04.2023
Inside Croatia’s Secret WhatsApp Group
How high-ranking Croatian officials presided over clandestine communications about border operations
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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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29.11.2022
Reconstructing the Melilla Massacre
Visual evidence, testimony, ground reporting reveal Spain and Morocco lies
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28.06.2022
“We were slaves”
Greece uses asylum seekers to forcibly return migrants to Turkey
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06.05.2022
Frontex, the EU Pushback Agency
Frontex’s internal data shows EU border agency involved in mass pushbacks
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17.02.2022
Aegean Pushbacks Lead to Drowning
Whistleblowers claims new tactic of being thrown overboard off Turkish coast
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22.12.2021
Who died at Europe’s border?
Using OSINT to find life stories of nameless dead at Poland-Belarus border
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06.10.2021
Unmasking Europe’s Shadow Armies
Shocking evidence links violence against asylum seekers in EU to state security
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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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29.04.2021
Frontex in the Central Mediterranean
EU agency plays a direct role in Libyan coast guard’s interception operations
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05.02.2021
Frontex Chapter III: Agency in Turmoil
Toxic culture at EU’s border agency, leadership under investigation
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23.10.2020
Frontex Complicit in Pushbacks
Pushbacks in Greece undertaken with support or connivance of EU super agency
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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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08.05.2020
The Killing of Muhammad Gulzar
Reconstructing a death at the Greek-Turkish border raises serious questions
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05.04.2020
Deep Pushbacks From Greece
New wave in Greece of extrajudicial deportations overland and at sea
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