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Pushbacks: Together Magazine, December 2023
Our article Pushbacks, in Finland's Together magazine, highlighting the Greek government's vicious and illegal anti-refugee campaign.

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Feb 29, 20241 min read
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Greek government carries out highest ever number of illegal pushbacks
In September this year, the Greek government illegally pushed back the highest ever number of men, women and children arriving in Greece.

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Oct 11, 20234 min read
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Labour in the UK: chasing the votes of racists, and risking an election to do so
With his most recent comments on immigration, Keir Starmer has set the UK back decades, and further risks the lives of people seeking safety

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Sep 15, 202311 min read
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Pushback proportions, not numbers, fall in August
Although the proportion of people being illegally pushed back from Greece has fallen, the reason is not what one might expect or hope.

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Sep 8, 20234 min read
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EU must use power to protect rights activists
UN human rights expert Mary Lawlor says the EU must demand Tajikistan ends attacks on human rights defenders or not upgrade trade relations.

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Aug 9, 202315 min read
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EU must abandon plans to wreck, end, human lives
The EU has agreed two of the worst 'migration initiatives' in human history. Both must be abandoned, as they will kill people seeking safety

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Aug 2, 202312 min read
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Serious problems with NGO allegations
The Greek government is committing libel against aid workers and organisations in the state.

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Aug 1, 20237 min read
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'New' government, same abuse of the legal system
The Greek government is attacking human rights defenders because they are the people's last line of defence of against the Greek government

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Aug 1, 202317 min read
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Caretaker government breaks, misleads regarding, refugee law
Correcting some elemental errors on refugee law, and noting the quickest, smartest and most effective way to end people 'smuggling'.

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Jun 23, 20234 min read
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Seven days from the Pylos catastrophe: lies, persecution and protest
Several updates from the week following the Pylos catastrophe: the Greek government running from responsibility, the law and human decency.

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Jun 23, 202327 min read
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Pylos: an unfolding catastrophe in which 650 deaths are still largely ignored
A note which includes the fact that the Greek Coastguard may have actively killed 650 men, women and children, and on what pushbacks are for

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Jun 16, 20237 min read
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Greece, Italy, ‘Eastern Libya’ and the EU: killers of 650 people
Greece, Italy, 'Eastern Libya' and the EU are responsible for killing 650 men, women and children today. We should not pretend they are not.

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Jun 15, 202310 min read
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Lesvos’ turn to revel in ND carnival of lies
Anyone unfortunate enough to be addressed by Nea Dimokratia on its ‘fair’ refugee policy should ask: what happened to our €3.2bn?

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
May 18, 20238 min read
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A police officer shoots a man in the head. The response cannot be ‘nothing’
A Greek police officer shot a man in the head as he ran away from him. Regardless of claims and labels, we have to stop this from happening.

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
May 6, 20236 min read
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Notis Mitarachis: lying to the Greek public
It is an uncomfortable thing to have to point out, but Greece's Migration Minister Notis Miatarchis is, simply, a liar.

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Apr 29, 202315 min read
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Fatmata. A woman not killed ‘by accident’
The woman killed on Greece's border with N. Macedonia was Fatmata. She was 23. She was not killed 'by accident'. And this has to stop.

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Apr 25, 20237 min read
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It is time to stop
A woman was shot dead on Wednesday for trying to find a safe place to live. It is time to stop.

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Apr 21, 20233 min read
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Mitsotakis, the media and the pushback lie
Two points are important to make: all the evidence points to the fact that Greece performs pushbacks, and that Mitsotakis lies about them.

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Apr 14, 202310 min read
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SYRIZA cannot govern Greece by running from reality
SYRIZA's latest comment on refugees is worse than anything Nea Dimokratia has said. If the party wishes to govern, it must find some courage

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Apr 7, 20237 min read
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The EU must stop funding states which break international law
Greece's plan to spend EU cash on illegally operating a border wall underlines the bloc's need to stop all funding to law-breaking members.

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Apr 6, 20236 min read
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