Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Maria: the (actual) current situation
It seems like a reasonable time - and a vital thing - to update on the current situation surrounding the death of a girl in the Evros river.
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
- Mar 14
- 10 min
UN SR: ‘It shouldn’t be a crime to help people. In Greece, it's made to seem like it is.'
UN Special Rapporter on Human Rights Defenders, Mary Lawlor, expresses her shock and frustration with Greece in this interview with Koraki.
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
- Mar 10
- 11 min
Mitarachis on Hardtalk: a carnival of lies
Greece’s Migration Minister Notis Mitarachis’ appearance on the BBC show Hardtalk saw the politician openly lie to two nations' citizens.
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
- Feb 28
- 5 min
How is Alexandrakis Georgios still in a job?
The commander of the Greek Coastguard has drawn unfortunate attention to his litany of avoidable deaths, by lying about NGOs.
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
- Feb 20
- 14 min
Distraction and Dishonesty: Greece’s Migration Ministry and its distant relationship with truth
The Greek Migration Ministry's response to the New York Times is a mix of the irrelevant and the untrue. We deserve better.
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
- Oct 11, 2022
- 4 min
Evros islet not Turkish after all
Greek Migration Minister Notis Mitarachis openly lied about the status of an islet on which he left a five-year-old girl to die.
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
- Aug 29, 2022
- 10 min
Mitsotakis disgraces Greece with joke about dead five-year-old girl
Greek Prime Minister Kiriakos Mitsotakis has brought shame on his office and his country by joking about the death of a five-year-old girl.
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
- Aug 17, 2022
- 6 min
Josoor: human rights and human safety unravel before our eyes
The closure of Josoor points to some stark, disturbing truths. We are watcing human rights and human safety be snatched away by governments.
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
- Jun 29, 2022
- 13 min
Misdirection and blame-shifting: Mitarachis misses another opportunity
Eschewing another chance to reflect and maybe even change, Notis Mitarachis instead misled: there was nothing new to see at the LIBE meeting
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
- Jun 23, 2022
- 7 min
UN warns Greek government: you are damaging Greece
The Greek government has been handed yet another opportunity to stop and change the policies with which it is damaging Greece and the world.
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
- Jun 17, 2022
- 4 min
TV Presenters wildly mislead Greek public
Whether misinformed or deliberately misleading the public, journalists must do better than spreading falsehoods on live television.
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
- Apr 11, 2022
- 6 min
Μηταραχής: ψεύδος ή έλλειψη εφαρμογής;
Ο Υπουργός Μετανάστευσης της Ελλάδας παραπλανά επανειλημμένα τον ελληνικό λαό σχετικά με το νόμο και πρέπει να αρχίσουμε να ρωτάμε γιατί.
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
- Mar 18, 2022
- 3 min
Six years of failure. Time to ditch the Deal
The EU-Turkey Deal has entered its seventh year. It is time to ditch this illegal, immoral and failed attempt to ban refugees from Europe.
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
- Nov 15, 2021
- 5 min
A trial against 24 people threatens the entire system of international law
Twenty-four people face trial on Thursday 18 November 2021. The threat is not just to their freedom, but to international law itself.
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
- Nov 14, 2021
- 7 min
Have you been to Samos? Which Samos have you been to, Mr. Prime Minister?
The people of Samos have spoken against the Greek governments' repeated pushbacks of refugees. It's well worth reading what they have to say
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
- Oct 31, 2021
- 4 min
Nea Dimokratia attempts largest ever pushback
Despite its - entirely incorrect - claims, the Greek government's latest sea 'rescue' was in fact an attempt to break international law.
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
- Jun 1, 2021
- 6 min
European Commission - stop funding the Greek government
The European Commission must stop funding Greece's government, which carries out illegal pushbacks and is jailing innocent people.
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
- Mar 23, 2021
- 4 min
End illegal, immoral and potentially lethal pushbacks now
At least three – and in fact almost certainly four – men died on Friday 19 March 2021. They drowned having been adrift as part of a group...
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
- Sep 12, 2020
- 3 min
'Closed camps': Jail, and the law
We talked yesterday (Friday 11 September) as part of a wider briefing, about the Greek government's plans to open 'closed camps' for...
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
- Sep 11, 2020
- 13 min
Moria - fire and response
The following is a collection of updates we offered in the immediate wake of the fire which burned Moria to the ground on Wednesday 9...
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