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EU: Legal actions pile up against Frontex for involvement in rights violations
23 February 2021
Two recent legal actions accuse Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, of serious violations of the rights of migrants and refugees in Greece.
Two separate actions – one by the
Syria Justice and Accountability Centre (
SJAC), and one by
Legal Centre Lesvos – have been launched since the end of January, both aiming to “finally break the cycle of impunity and trigger independent and serious investigations into collective expulsions in the Aegean”, according to
Legal Centre Lesvos coordinator Lorraine Leete.
On 28 January the
SJAC filed a
communiquéwith the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), arguing that policy and practice implemented following the 2016 EU-Turkey Statement amount to a violation of article 7 of the Rome Statute of the ICC, on crimes against humanity.