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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Inside Croatia’s Secret WhatsApp Group
How high-ranking Croatian officials presided over clandestine communications about border operations


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


Europe’s Black Sites
Refugees arbitrarily detained, tortured at secret facilities in EU


Shot for Seeking Asylum
First video of live ammunition being used against asylum seekers in EU


Reconstructing the Melilla Massacre
Visual evidence, testimony, ground reporting reveal Spain and Morocco lies


“We were slaves”
Greece uses asylum seekers to forcibly return migrants to Turkey


Frontex, the EU Pushback Agency
Frontex’s internal data shows EU border agency involved in mass pushbacks


Aegean Pushbacks Lead to Drowning
Whistleblowers claims new tactic of being thrown overboard off Turkish coast


Who died at Europe’s border?
Using OSINT to find life stories of nameless dead at Poland-Belarus border


Unmasking Europe’s Shadow Armies
Shocking evidence links violence against asylum seekers in EU to state security


Moria: After the Fire
Year in the life of survivors of blaze that destroyed EU’s largest refugee camp


Frontex in the Central Mediterranean
EU agency plays a direct role in Libyan coast guard’s interception operations


Frontex Chapter III: Agency in Turmoil
Toxic culture at EU’s border agency, leadership under investigation


Frontex Complicit in Pushbacks
Pushbacks in Greece undertaken with support or connivance of EU super agency


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


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


Torment in Turkey
Asylum seekers funneled to EU border are pawns in power game


The Killing of Muhammad Gulzar
Reconstructing a death at the Greek-Turkish border raises serious questions


Deep Pushbacks From Greece
New wave in Greece of extrajudicial deportations overland and at sea
