Greek Coast Guard

Greek Coast Guard is making efforts to collect migrants from various areas of the eastern Aegean sea over the last 48 hours. Senior Coast Guard officers reported that the wave of immigration from Asia Minor has and will continue to...

A boat carrying illegal immigrants sank off the coast of the Greek island of Tilos, in the Aegean Sea, due to a fire. So far the Greek Coast Guard was able to recover the body of one dead passenger,...

A ten-year-old Greek boy was killed while on a banana boat ride at the beach of Kalo Livadi in Mykonos, Greece, on Monday evening. According to Greek Coast Guard, the boy was riding the inflatable banana boat when he slipped and...

In January 2014, a small boat that was transporting illegal migrants in Greek waters went under during a Greek Coast Guard operation near the Aegean islet of Farmakonisi. During the controversial operation, 11 Afghan immigrants lost their lives. On Thursday,...

Shipping and Aegean Minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis received on Wednesday on behalf of the Hellenic Coast Guard from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation 10 high-speed inflatable boats, which will reinforce Greece's fight against illegal migration from the sea borders. "Our target is...

A video posted on YouTube by the Panhellenic Coast Guards Officers' Federation reveals the inhumane conditions in an immigrants detention center in the island of Symi, south-eastern Aegean Sea, Greece. The federation with an official announcement stated that the video...

Five people who were above suspicion have been arrested by the Greek police Internal Affairs Department, with charges of immigrant smuggling. Specifically, two retired mariners aged 67 and 52 years old, a 42-year-old woman who was a bank employee, a 50-year-old...

The Greek Coast Guard proceeded with yet another illegal immigrants rescue operation, one of the many carried out on a daily basis during the last months. More specifically, in the early hours on Wednesday, two Coast Guard vessels rescued 31 immigrants...

eGreece has been shocked after the discovery of the largest quantity of heroin that has ever been recorded on a European or international level, after police dismantled an active drug circuit. Now that new evidence has come to light, Greek Shipping...

In a report released today on the occasion of International Immigrants Day, several organizations report that Greek authorities and Frontex, the European Union agency for external border security, are violating immigrants' rights. The report by the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH),...