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The undersigned Civil Society organizations condemn as illegal and impermissible the legislative provision passed by the Parliament on Friday 11 July 2025 (article 79 of Law 5218\/2025), which suspends for three months the submission of asylum applications by people arriving in the country from North Africa and provides for their immediate deportation from the country without registration.<\/p>\n
The fundamental principles of the right of access to asylum and protection against refoulement are not subject to any restrictions. They are enshrined in supra-legislative texts of international and EU law which take precedence over any national legal provision, as has already been pointed out by reputable institutions in Greece and internationally, including the Ombudsman, the National Commission for Human Rights, the Association of Administrative Judges, the Plenary Session of the Greek Bar Associations, the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.<\/p>\n
We call on the Greek Government to immediately withdraw this illegal legislation and on the European Commission to take urgent action to enforce EU law and immediately remove the violation, in accordance with its statutory responsibilities<\/strong>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The signatory organisations<\/span><\/strong>:<\/p>\n Solidarity of Lesvos <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Greek Parliament has passed a measure that suspends asylum applications for three months for individuals arriving from North Africa, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":113362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[687],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-greece"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nAssociation AMOKA \/ Athenian Museum of Fine Arts
\nANTIGONI \u2013 Information and Documentation Centre for Racism, Ecology, Peace and Non-Violence
\nARSIS Social Organization for Youth Support
\nM\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res \u2013 Greek Section
\nAmnesty International
\nInternational Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)
\nNetwork for the Rights of the Child
\nNetwork for the Right to Roof and Housing
\nNetwork of Young People of Immigrant Origin \u201cORIZONTES\u201d
\nDiotima Centre
\nHellenic League for Human Rights (ELEDA)
\nGreek Observatory of the Helsinki Accords (EOSA)
\nGreek Forum of Migrants
\nGreek Refugee Forum
\nGreek Council for Refugees (GCR)
\nSea of Solidarity
\nIris Women\u2019s Centre
\nCaritas Hellas
\nCampaign on Access to Asylum
\nKISA Action for Equality, Support, Antiracism
\nCommunity of Pope John 23rd
\nCyprus Council for Refugees
\nHuman Rights Watch (HRW)
\nDrop \/ Drop in the Ocean
\nAssociation of Albanian Immigrants \u201cMother Teresa\u201d
\nSymbiosis \u2013 Council of Europe School of Political Studies
\nRefugee Support in the Aegean (RSA)
\nLighthouse
\nAction for Women
\naditus foundation
\nAlma Community Therapies
\nAsociaci\u00f3n Pro Derechos Humanos de Espa\u00f1a (APDHE)
\nAssociazione Ricreativa e Culturale Italiana (ARCI)
\nAssociation for Legal Studies on Immigration (ASGI)
\nAthens Pride
\nAdvocates Sans Fronti\u00e8res France
\nBoat Refugee Foundation
\nBorder Violence Monitoring Network (BVMN)
\nCairo Institute for Human Rights Studies
\nChangemakers Lab
\nCollective Aid
\nCommittee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ)
\nCPT \u2013 Aegean Migrant Solidarity
\nCRIBS International
\nDefence for Children International Greece
\nDr\u00e5pen i Havet
\nDynamo International Social Street Workers Network
\n4. ECHO100PLUS
\nEmantes \u2013 International LGBTQIA+ Solidarity
\nEmpowerVan
\nEqual Legal Aid (ELA)
\nEqual Rights Beyond Borders
\nEquinox Initiative for Racial Justice
\nEUROCEF
\nEuroMed Rights
\nEuropean Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE)
\nEuropean Lawyers in Lesvos (ELIL)
\nEuropean Observatory for Non-Discrimination and Fundamental Rights (EONDFR)
\nFenix Humanitarian Legal Aid
\nFondation pour la Promotion des Droits en Alg\u00e9rie
\nHIAS Greece
\nThe HOME Project
\nHuman Rights Association (IHD)
\nHuman Rights Legal Project
\nInterEuropean Human Aid Association
\nInternational Rescue Committee (IRC) Hellas
\nInternational League for Human Rights
\nI Have Rights
\nInter Alia
\nINTERSOS HELLAS
\nIridia Association \u2013 Centre for the Defence of Humans Rights
\nIthaca Laundry
\nJesuit Refugee Service (JRS) Europe
\nJesuit Refugee Service (JRS) Greece
\nJesuit Refugee Service (JRS) Malta
\nJesuit Refugee Service (JRS) Portugal
\nJesuit Refugee Service (JRS) Serbia
\nJesuit Refugee Service (JRS) Switzerland
\nJesuit Refugee Service (JRS) UK
\nLegal Centre Lesvos
\nLicra Bas-Rhin
\nLighthouse Relief
\nLigue des droits de l\u2019Homme (LDH)
\nM\u00e9decins du Monde International
\nMigrant Voice
\nMobile Info Team
\nMouvement International d\u2019Apostolat des Milieux Sociaux Ind\u00e9pendants (MIAMSI)
\nNorthern Lights Aid
\nOffice international de l\u2019enseignement catholique (OIEC)
\nPAX Romana (ICMICA- MIIC)
\nPlatform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM)
\nPRAKSIS
\nPRO ASYL
\nProject Armonia
\nRefcheck point (Positive Voice)
\nRefugees International
\nRefugees Welcome, Denmark
\nRENATE Network (Religious in Europe Networking against Trafficking and Exploitation)
\nSafe Passage International Greece
\nSafe Place Greece
\nSamos Volunteers
\nSAO Association Hellas
\nSave the Children
\nSecond Tree
\nServicio Jesuita a Migrantes Espa\u00f1a
\nTerre des hommes Hellas
\nVelos Youth Centre
\nVouliwatch<\/p>\n