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Children stand by the sea at the Kara Tepe refugee camp, on the northeastern Aegean island of Lesbos, Greece
GREEK forces on their country’s border with Turkey are engaged in “systematic and continuous” illegal pushbacks of migrants with the “help of EU agents,” new research has found.
For years, migrants and refugees fleeing persecution by crossing the Evros river between Turkey and Greece have testified that they have been detained, beaten and forcibly expelled by unidentified masked men at night without being allowed access to asylum procedures.
Such actions, known as “pushbacks,” are illegal under international law.
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If true, the photo’s history is a damning indictment of the systematic exploitation of non-Western journalists by Western media organisations – a pattern that persists today, posit KATE CANTRELL and ALISON BEDFORD
