🚨🛟 NEW EPISODE 🎙️🎧
Lawyer and @front-lex.bsky.social co-founder Iftach Cohen tells us about Alaa Hamoudi, a Syrian man who was pushed back from Greece to Turkey in 2020, under the watchful eyes of Frontex.
He tells us how Front-Lex brought this case to the EU's top court and won!
After a boat carrying 105 people from Libya towards Italy capsized on Sunday, at least 70 people died.
Interviewed by Publico on the obstacles facing search-and-rescue missions, front-LEX co-director Iftach Cohen points to Frontex's systematic obstruction.
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@frontex.bsky.social found that Greece uses Afghan paramilitaries to torture and push back asylum seekers to Turkey.
Article 46(4) requires it to end its operations in Greece, as recently affirmed by @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social. But Frontex still refuses to act.
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Iftach Cohen and Sissy Katsoni are revisiting the CJEU's along-awaited judgment on the appeal against the General Court’s order in Hamoudi v. Frontex as well as drawing conclusions on its significance for the advancement of asylum-seekers’ rights in the EU.
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a response to critics of embryonic eaws at the time was that ms govs. are democratic & respect human rights… two decades+ later, authoritarians use them to conduct eu-wide persecutions vs people for being antifascist, helping migrants & documenting state crimes…
www.ekathimerini.com/news/1298346...
Everyone knows what is happening in Libya. In an interview with Dutch newspaper Kanttekening, front-LEX Legal Director @iftachco.bsky.social makes it clear: Frontex’s Executive Director cannot hide behind claims of ignorance.
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It's not often we get to report on hopeful news
Alaa Hamoudi won in the EU's top court against Frontex! This opens doors for many survivors of Frontex pushbacks.
@bdeeb.bsky.social tells how he reported on Alaa's case back in 2020 with @bellingcat.com. And how this evidence ended up in court.
Alaa Hamoudi was very unlucky to end up in the hands of Frontex and its Greek partners, but his luck turned when Bashar found him, and thanks to Bashar and his colleagues from @lighthousereports.com and @bellingcat.com, Alaa’s case was ultimately brought before the @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social
Karim is a young asylum seeker from Sudan. He is trapped in Libya living under constant threat of abduction, extortion, & arbitrary detention by armed groups. Karim has been diagnosed with diabetes and needs consistent care,medication,and safe access to food
www.refugeesinlibya.org/post/help-ka...
“When Hans Leijtens instructs the officer on duty to pass on the location of a refugee boat to the Libyan militia, both know that the intercepted refugees will be exposed in Libya to crimes against humanity "
Hamoudi v Frontex and FM v Frontex, pending before the @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social 👇
“Thousands of people who, until now, had no chance of simply accessing the Court. I’m not talking about winning or losing a case - just knocking on the Court’s door and seeing a judge willing to provide judicial protection.”
Front-LEX's @iftachco.bsky.social, speaking to RAI 3 on Hamoudi v Frontex
Watch the full interview with Alaa Hamoudi on RAI 3 (English subtitles — link in the comments). In it, he talks about the pushbacks by Greece and Frontex against him and 21 others, and explains what the Grand Chamber judgment of the EU Court means for him and for those who couldn’t fight back.
Ora disponibile su RAI 3 – Il cavallo e la Torre: servizio sul caso Hamoudi v Frontex
www.raiplay.it/video/2025/1...
You read the judgment. Now watch the day it was delivered.
RAI 3 followed Alaa Hamoudi and his legal team on the day the Grand Chamber of the @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social delivered its landmark ruling in Hamoudi v Frontex.
RAI 3, this evening at 20:40.
Buona visione!
Alaa Hamoudi:
«كنتُ أُصارع بين الحياة والموت. وهذا هو السبب الذي دفعني لمقاضاة فرونتكس».
“I was struggling between life and death. That is why I sued @frontex.bsky.social.”
www.infomigrants.net/ar/post/6888...
Vincent, if you wish to come clean and share more information about pullback operations jointly committed by Frontex and Libyan militias, or to receive legal advice regarding your personal liability, DM us.
Vincent actually helps Libyan militias intercept refugee boats and pull them back to Libya, where the “rescued” refugees are subjected to rape, torture, slavery, and murder upon disembarkation.
FM v Frontex is still pending before the @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social
@refugeesinlibya.bsky.social
…very well done to all involved…
Last week, Alaa convinced the Grand Chamber to set new rules on evidence in all Frontex pushback cases.
Judges found his account ‘sufficiently detailed, specific and consistent’ and sent the case back.
Continuing this litigation is costly.
If you can, help us pursue Alaa’s case
Lawyers representing a Syrian refugee say the EU's border agency Frontex fails to grasp what its own "strengthened safeguards" might look like in practice.
“Lawyers representing a Syrian refugee say...Frontex fails to grasp what its own so-called ‘strengthened safeguards’ might look like in practice… Hamoudi… took his case all the way to the general court … which he then lost… despite Hamoudi's pushback having also been documented by @bellingcat.com”
Gracias, querida Estrella!
Lo más importante, más allá de la victoria de Alaa Hamoudi, es el precedente que sienta para futuras devoluciones. Gracias a @drivaspacheco.bsky.social que ha seguido el caso estos años
@lolahierro.bsky.social in @elpais.com said: "The CJEU has entered an unexplored land on Thursday by issuing for the first time a sentence that blames Frontex."
“The case came to public attention thanks to the investigative collective @bellingcat.com , which reconstructed the “phantom landing.”
