Are You Syrious? Apr 6 · 7 min read · Listen AYS News Digest 6/4/22: A rise in violence against Ukrainian refugees in Germany Four Afghans deported from Turkey to Syria/FRONTEX’s concerns of human trafficking at the Ukraine border/The transformation of RICs in Greece/Italy arrests refugees and asylum seekers on…

Are You Syrious? Mar 30 · 9 min read · Listen AYS News Digest 30/3/2022: The UK Home Office seized 2000 asylum seekers’ phones under an unlawful policy Greece national transparency watchdog claims there are no pushbacks taking place by the Greek authorities/ 34 people stranded in a river islet in Greece/ Italian government is providing 428 million euros to welcome Ukrainian refugees/ Germany announces it will…

Are You Syrious? Mar 24 · 6 min read · Listen AYS News Digest 23/3/22: Mother and 13-year-old daughter deported after 10 years in Germany Bodies of people who dies in shipwrecks found along Tunisian coast / BVMN Monthly Report / EU leaders have tacitly admitted that EU migration policies, at a purely mechanical level, are unfit for purpose / and more

Are You Syrious? Mar 2 · 7 min read · Listen AYS News Digest 2/3/22: The EU’s Emergency Plan to Support Ukrainian Refugees The EU’s emergency plan to support Ukrainian refugees / Differences in the welcoming approach to Ukrainian refugees vs refugees from Middle Eastern countries / Calls for disciplinary action against senior Frontex officials who concealed pushbacks in Greece / 100 people evacuated from Libya to Italy

Are You Syrious? Feb 13 · 6 min read · Listen AYS Special from Turkey: Deportations to Syria Over the past months, we have received increasing reports of collective deportations of Syrian people on the move — both documented and undocumented — from different locations in Turkey to Syria. …

Greece accused of torture and dangerous living conditions // EU funds spent on food for people who don’t exist // Support free journalism in Greece // Draconian food rules in Serbia // Two new occupations in Calais // Protests in Germany // Poland-Belarus border updates // Frontex…. Photo taken by…

Are You Syrious? Following Jan 30 · 4 min read For the past few months this has been a question increasingly asked by new arrivals to people on the ground. Why? Because if you manage to arrive to Greece by land through the northern border with Turkey, or to the…

Libyan “female migrant center” a “media stunt”/ Polish border wall to cut through protected forest/ Greek locals challenge prison camps narrative/ / Alleged “smugglers” sentenced in Spain / “Smoking Guns” report / Updates on SAR missions Are You Syrious? Following Jan 29 · 8 min read

What will the fallout of the Danish decision be for the people and for other EU Member states? / 2021 deadliest year on record in the Mediterranean / EC plans no infringement procedure in case of EU Member States practicing pushbacks at the border with Belarus Are You Syrious? Following Jan 13 · 6 min read