Homayoun Sabetara - an Iranian asylum seeker has been released from jail on a reduced sentence after years behind bars on smuggling charges. His family and lawyers argued he was coerced to drive a van w/ others into Greece & is himself a victim of draconian smuggling legislation.

Do watch/attend this panel in Athens today discussing AI, migration & more - @g_christides will be speaking about some research we’ve been doing on this w/Florian Schmitz & Deana Mrkaja More info here👇 forum.imedd.org/en/journalism-…

And the last, but definetely not least, #IJ4EU Impact Award 2024 winner is "The Pylos Shipwreck" 👏 We congratulate the team of journalists from The Guardian, Solomon, and Forensis on this absolutely brilliant project!

EXCLUSIVE #Croatia’s police burns clothing,phones&passports seized from #asylumseekers before pushing them back. ⁦NoNameKitchen⁩ has shared with us⁩ 📸&testimonies documenting yet another instance of violence vs #migrants.By Amy Hawkins⁩ & me🧵 theguardian.com/global-develop…

Very grateful to Pilita Clark and the FT for including 'The Heat and the Fury,' which was published a fortnight ago, among her four best new books in climate! ft.com/content/b8fb5e…

New from me at the The Daily Dot: Google has been giving free promos in ads worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to anti LGBT orgs like Alliance Defending Freedom. dailydot.com/debug/google-a…

In Greece, hundreds are arrested each year for people smuggling. Greece says it's protecting borders. But human rights groups say it’s asylum seekers, not real smugglers, who are ending up behind bars — often for years. bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0j…

The Foreign Press Association GREECE condemns in the strongest terms the detention and arrest of our colleague Giorgos Androutsos fpa.gr/fpa-announceme…

Happy to see our report on law 036 in #Niger listed at BIGSAS Journalist Award. Until today no one can say how many people have died on the desert routes which appeared after the law’s introduction. #EUmigration DIE ZEIT Katy Fallon & Journalismfund Europe Vincent Haiges

Read Natalie Gruber’s powerful piece on how Greece opened a secret criminal ‘investigation’ into her after she exposed their crimes at the border. It’s the fourth piece in my series for Beyond Slavery on how migration became a criminal offence 👇 opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-traf…

Delighted to find this timely and important book by my friend Peter Schwartzstein on climate violence on the shelves of the Islington Waterstones - cannot recommend it enough - beautifully and carefully written too.

(1/8) #InvisibleWalls: Inside EUROPE’S PUSH for AI at its BORDERS. 👉risks for people on the move 👉business opportunities for companies 👉high costs for taxpayers Our international collaborative investigation WOZ Solomon Inkstick Media EL PAÍS Tagesspiegel

💥#NEW: Drones. Thermal cameras. Surveillance towers that can see 20 km away. A months-long investigation by @g_christides Katy Fallon Florian Schmitz Marguerite Meyer · Hibai Arbide Aza · reveals how the EU uses AI technology toward the people seeking refuge in it. wearesolomon.com/mag/focus-area…

💥#NEW: Drones. Thermal cameras. Surveillance towers that can see 20 km away. A months-long investigation by @g_christides Katy Fallon Florian Schmitz Marguerite Meyer · Hibai Arbide Aza · reveals how the EU uses AI technology toward the people seeking refuge in it. wearesolomon.com/mag/focus-area…

Have you talked to doctors in Australia? I have . The only coercion they report is families stopping their loved ones having an assisted death. Please listen to those who are already involved. They dont bear out your concerns. Please stop scaremongering, you’re better than that