Koraki

2019 Statistics so far 1. New arrivals by sea 2. Transfers from the islands to mainland 3. Other removals from the islands 4. Detention Centre populations *Brackets note the entire refugee population on the island, including those outside the detention centres. 5. Sea arrivals month-by-month *Both up to and including 29 July 6. Turkey Coastguard pushbacks 7. Deaths The current rate of death in the Eastern Mediterranean is significantly lower (one death for every 322(.79) peop

Syrian journalist and activist Bahia al Mardini dismisses claims that Bashar al Assad has ‘won’ the war in Syria, and calls for democracy in her state, where she had, until being chased out in 2012, campaigned for the rights of political prisoners, many of whom were tortured in Assad’s prisons. She says: ‘Victory cannot be written in civilian blood: the conflict has already claimed up to half a million lives, left one million Syrian children orphaned and displaced half the pr

Saad Hariri, Lebanon’s Prime Minister, has withdrawn his resignation from the role. We have noted in some detail the situation surrounding Hariri’s resignation, but in short, Hariri resigned on 4 November, during a state visit to Saudi Arabia, on Saudi television. No-one in Lebanon had expected the resignation, and within his speech he directly criticised Hizbollah, saying: ‘Arabs… will chop off the hand of those who try to… interfere in and disrupt our lives.’ The statement

Saad Hariri has ‘paused’ his resignation as Lebanon’s Prime Minister. Speaking in Beirut, to which he has returned for the first time since 4 November, when he controversially resigned his post on Saudi Arabian television, Hariri said the decision has been requested by Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun. He said: ‘I presented today my resignation to President Aoun and he urged me to wait before offering it and to hold onto it for more dialogue about its reasons and political bac