Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Pushbacks: Together Magazine, December 2023
Our article Pushbacks, in Finland's Together magazine, highlighting the Greek government's vicious and illegal anti-refugee campaign.
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
- Oct 11, 2023
- 4 min
Greek government carries out highest ever number of illegal pushbacks
In September this year, the Greek government illegally pushed back the highest ever number of men, women and children arriving in Greece.
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
- Sep 8, 2023
- 4 min
Pushback proportions, not numbers, fall in August
Although the proportion of people being illegally pushed back from Greece has fallen, the reason is not what one might expect or hope.
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
- Jul 31, 2023
- 17 min
'New' government, same abuse of the legal system
The Greek government is attacking human rights defenders because they are the people's last line of defence of against the Greek government
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
- Jun 21, 2023
- 9 min
Mitsotakis: shifting blame and attacking those who have human feeling
Kiriakos Mitsotakis has caused Greece's worst ever rail and maritime catastrophes. How many people does he want to kill before he resigns?
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
- Jun 16, 2023
- 7 min
Pylos: an unfolding catastrophe in which 650 deaths are still largely ignored
A note which includes the fact that the Greek Coastguard may have actively killed 650 men, women and children, and on what pushbacks are for
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
- Jun 14, 2023
- 10 min
Greece, Italy, ‘Eastern Libya’ and the EU: killers of 650 people
Greece, Italy, 'Eastern Libya' and the EU are responsible for killing 650 men, women and children today. We should not pretend they are not.
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
- May 24, 2023
- 17 min
Greece, Nea Dimokratia and ‘second chances’
Nea Dimokratia took a far greater lead over SYRIZA than expected on Sunday. But just one in four registered Greek voters voted for it.
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
- May 18, 2023
- 8 min
Lesvos’ turn to revel in ND carnival of lies
Anyone unfortunate enough to be addressed by Nea Dimokratia on its ‘fair’ refugee policy should ask: what happened to our €3.2bn?
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
- Apr 14, 2023
- 10 min
Mitsotakis, the media and the pushback lie
Two points are important to make: all the evidence points to the fact that Greece performs pushbacks, and that Mitsotakis lies about them.
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
- Apr 7, 2023
- 7 min
SYRIZA cannot govern Greece by running from reality
SYRIZA's latest comment on refugees is worse than anything Nea Dimokratia has said. If the party wishes to govern, it must find some courage
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
- Mar 19, 2023
- 10 min
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, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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
- Mar 8, 2023
- 5 min
The situation on Greece’s borders is far worse than even critical reports suggest
Horrific though they may be, recent reports about the Greek border officers are sadly underestimates of their true depravity and barbarism.
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
- Feb 28, 2023
- 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 27, 2023
- 15 min
Calabria: the outcome of years of breaking the law
The death of at least 62 people at Calabria is the outcome of the EU breaking the law: the solution is simple. Obey the law.
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
- Feb 20, 2023
- 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
- Feb 11, 2023
- 6 min
Pushbacks, Mitarachis, and the ‘safety’ lie
Despite his claims to the contrary, Mitarachis' pushbacks from Greece are killing people in ever greater number each year.
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
- Jan 30, 2023
- 13 min
‘A wall’, or ‘The collapse of the law’
The Greek government, backed by the EU and a UK ever closer to being a rogue state, is boasting about assaulting the law and human decency.
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