Chios

Tension is rising at Piraeus Port, the Idomeni tent city and Chios where thousands of refugees and migrants refuse to move to hosting facilities in fear of deportation to Turkey. After the relocation deal between the European Union and Turkey...

As Turkey prepared to receive a second group of migrants deported from Greece this week, European Union officials pledged there would be “no automatic return” for the migrants before they are given a chance to apply for asylum. The announcement...

Tomorrow's refugee and migrant refoulments from Chios island towards Turkey are up "in the air," as 166 people requested for asylum, which sets back the procedure at least one month. According to ANA-MPA, in Lesvos island, out of the 3,021...

Chios Mayor Manolis Vournous is threatening Deputy Migration Minister Yannis Mouzalas with a lawsuit unless he makes sure that the VIAL refugee registration center does not turn into a detention center. Vournous calls on the Greek government to assume responsibility...

The first deported migrants from Greece arrived at Dikili in western Turkey on Monday, the first day of the implementation of the relocation agreement between Ankara and the European Union. A total of 202 migrants from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh...

A violent clash between Chios residents protesting against a refugee transfer and police resulted in three locals suffering injuries on Sunday night. Residents of the Tampakika region of Chios staged a protest complaining about the transfer of refugees to be...

Government spokesperson on migration Giorgos Kyritsis said Greece is preparing for violent riots when the mass deportation of refugees and migrants goes in effect on Monday. The agreement between the European Union and Turkey to be implemented as of April...

The Chios and Piraeus ports are experiencing a "tense" situation as refugees and migrants keep being stranded. The "escape" of Chios hot-spot After the clashes that occurred on Thursday night at the BIAL hot-spot in Chios, hundreds of refugees and migrants left...

Turkey has been rounding up and forcibly sending back about 100 Syrian refugees nearly every day since January, according to a new report by Amnesty International. The human rights group said Friday that this has been an "open secret" in...

Hundreds of refugees and migrants left the hot-spot of BIAL in Chios, on Friday April 1 and are heading towards the city of Chios, through the provincial highway. According to the local site of Chios, astraparis.gr, around noon, the refugees...