Calamos Supports Greece

Greece

Human Smugglers Change Tactics to Convince Refugees to Undertake Perilous Aegean Crossing

Human smugglers trying to convince refugees and migrants to make the dangerous journey to Greek islands are up to new tricks. Taking advantage of the confusion caused in the row between Turkey and the European Union over the implementation...

Human Smugglers Arrested in Greece

According to police authorities,two men, aged 58 and 49, and a 55-year-old woman, were arrested in Thessaloniki, early on Wednesday, charged with migrant-smuggling.The three suspects are members of an international ring that promotes the entrance and transport of illegal...

Greece Targets NGOs Accused of Human Trafficking From Turkey

Four NGOs stand charged with smuggling illegal immigrants from Turkey to Greece in the summer of 2021. The NGOs, both well-known and reputable, allegedly colluded with traffickers working from the Turkish coast. They have also been accused of spying...

CBS Report Uncovers Lucrative Human Smuggling Ring in Athens (video)

Evidence that ISIS members are being moved through Greece into the rest of Europe has been uncovered by a CBS News report, which aired on Thursday. Human smuggling is known to be big business in the Greek capital, but this...

Human Rights Commission Accuses Greece of Illegally Returning Migrants

The National Human Rights Commission of Greece (NHRC), an independent advisory body to the Greek State on matters pertaining to human rights protection, raised serious concerns on Tuesday about the return of refugees to their home countries. Over what it...

Greek Court Jails People Smugglers for 1,400 Years

Four people convicted in Greece of running an international migrant smuggling outfit, have been sent to jail for 1,400 years. The convictions follow an international police operation which saw 112 migrants rescued from a cave and farm buildings in southern...

Greek Police Bust Network of Albanian People Smugglers

A people-smuggling network based in Athens that tried to get Albanian migrants into the UK, has been busted by the Greek police, in cooperation with Albanian and UK authorities. The gang provided Albanian migrants with fake Greek and Cypriot passports, in an...

The Price of Escape: How Much Do Smugglers Charge Refugees and Migrants for Passage to Europe?

Now that borders with Greece are closing one after another, and as more refugees and migrants are being trapped in the country despite the fact that the EU-Turkey agreement has become effective for several days now, one "business sector"...

Scores of Human Rights Organizations Condemn Europe’s Stance Towards Refugees

Human rights organizations from Greece, FYROM, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia and other countries have issued a joint public statement with which they condemn European governments that “violate, national, European, and international law by shutting their doors to people in need...

Greek Authorities Capture Six Alleged Migrant Smugglers

Greek authorities arrested six people accused of human trafficking in Northern Greece, close to the border with Turkey, the Athens-Macedonian News Agency Reports. The six alleged smugglers consist of one Greek and five Syrian citizens. The report notes that the individuals were caught after smuggling 25...

The Promised Land: The Refugee Crisis Has Human Consequences

The exodus of thousands of refugees continues with no end in sight. Those victims of human insanity hand over their life savings to smugglers to show them the way to the land of milk and honey. We see war refugees,...

Smugglers Leave 70-Year-Old Disabled Woman Stranded

Cruel and ruthless traffickers smuggled a 70-year-old disabled woman who could not walk and a special needs person from Turkey to Greece and left them stranded on a rocky cliff, under the sun in the area near the Marathoundas...

Turks Arrested in Rhodes for "Human Smuggling"

On the morning of Thursday the 17th of October, two Turks illegally transferred 77 Syrian immigrants on a luxurious sailboat from the opposite side of the Turkish coast, and disembarked them at the beach of Charaki on the island...

More Arrests In Smugglers' Bus Deaths

Greek police said they believe a 62-year-old man arrested in Thessaloniki on Sunday along with another two suspects is the leader of a ring of human traffickers authorities said are to blame for the death in June 2012 of...

Police Dismantle Human-Trafficking Ring

A human-trafficking ring was made up of at least seven individuals that charged hefty fees to transport illegal migrants to Italy.  It was dismantled by the police and coast guard. Two Iraqis and one Moroccan national were arrested by Nikaia police...