immigrants

Figures from the Greek Coast Guard released on Friday show 142% more immigrants arrived during the first four months of 2014 than in the same period last year. Figures show that a total of 4,363 would-be migrants were stopped by the Coast Guard...

Health authorities in Greece are on high alert due to the increased risk of polio infection from refugees from the East who pass the country’s borders. The disease is found in more and more immigrants and refugees who come from...

Georgios Sakellariou was a refugee and he never let himself forget it. He worked as a doctor well into old age providing the immigrants and refugees of Australia with his services. He was born in 1924 on the banks of...

Doctors Without Borders released a report Tuesday criticizing the Greek state for the detention conditions of immigrants, including young children and asylum seekers, without access to medical care. The report accuses Greece of causing "unnecessary suffering" adding that many immigrants not carrying the...

Greek coast guard authorities have mounted a rescue operation after an SOS signal was sent by a vessel carrying illegal immigrants on Sunday night. According to the Greek Ministry of shipping the number of immigrants amount to 400 The vessel...

Seven immigrants were recovered dead from the sea north of Mytilene, Greece, when their boat capsized while they were on board. It all started on Monday night when two immigrants who were rescued by a ship stated that they were...

On Friday, March 7, a Greek Coast Guard patrol boat rescued twenty-one illegal immigrants in the sea area of Sikamia in Lesvos island, western Greece. According to sources, among the survivors was the 37 year-old smuggler who was arrested on...

On Friday, February 7, Greek authorities discovered the bodies of four immigrants. The immigrants drowned while a coast guard vessel was towing their boat last month. The Greek divers recovered the bodies of two adults and two children from...

Early on Monday morning, Greek coast guards detected the dead body of an immigrant offshore the small cove of Ladiko, in the island of Rhodes, Greece. According to the local media, Greek coast guard authorities were led to the place...

A few days after the tragedy on the island of Farmakonisi, eastern Greece, that left the Greek and international community shocked, the Deutsche Welle presented a video that reveals the maltreatment of immigrants  by Greek coast guard officers and the...