Lesvos

Between December 1-17, a total of 1,650 refugees and migrants; all members of vulnerable groups, departed from the island of Lesvos and have gone to refugee/asylum seeker facilities in Athens, and other areas of mainland Greece. According to Migration Ministry...

Greek authorities are failing to provide adequate protection for women and girls living in government-run, European Union-sponsored facilities for asylum seekers, on the island of Lesvos, NGO Human Rights Watch said today. In November, 2017, Human Rights Watch interviewed 25 asylum-seeking...

Another case of bureaucratic inefficiency was recorded this week, when earthquake-stricken inhabitants of Lesvos island are obliged to pay ENFIA property taxes for their ruined houses. After the late July earthquake in Kos island which devastated houses in neighbouring Lesvos,...

Lesvos island decongestion plan is in full progress. 408 persons have left the island in the last 24 hours. 152 refugees and migrants left on Friday evening from the port of Piraeus while another 256 left with the ferry "Nissos...

Greek Minister for Migration Yiannis Mouzalas did not exclude the possibility of deaths at the migrant camps this coming winter. In an interview to German magazine Der Spiegel, Mouzalas was explicitly asked whether he can guarantee that nobody is going...

Residents and officials from three eastern Aegean islands have demonstrated outside Greece's ministry for migration, protesting the increasingly precarious and overcrowded conditions for newly arriving migrants and refugees. The mayors of Lesvos, Chios and Samos, along with dozens of locals,...

A monument on Lesvos, bearing the names of some of the refugees who lost their lives trying to cross into Greece in 2012-2013, was vandalized by unknown individuals, who threw black paint on it. A local activist’s movement called “Movement...

Greek authorities transferred more than 250 refugees and migrants of vulnerable groups from Lesvos to Piraeus, on Wednesday. Among the group that boarded a ferry were families with children, women who are alone, the elderly, and people with disabilities. The move...

Professional and trade organisations on the Aegean islands of Lesvos and Limnos have declared a general strike by island businesses next Wednesday to demand the continuation of lower VAT rates for the islands, which are set to be aligned...

One person has been killed while three others have sustained injuries in a clash among 10 Afghan migrants on the Greek island of Lesvos. Greek police say that the dead person; an Afghan migrant, was known to them. He was...