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Katy Fallon

November 2025

  • Seán Binder

    Today in Focus
    The NGO worker on trial for people-smuggling in Lesbos

    How is the criminalisation of asylum changing Europe? With Katy Fallon
    Podcast31:46

May 2025

  • A van, with the words Home Office immigration enforcement on the side.

    Rights and freedom
    UK faces legal challenge over asylum seekers’ deportations to Bulgaria

    Deportees may face inhumane treatment and torture, say lawyers contesting Labour’s migration policy

April 2025

  • A group of exhausted-looking men wrapped in foil blankets sit on the deck of a boat

    Rights and freedom
    ‘It was steer or they would kill me’: why Sudanese war refugees are filling prisons in Greece

    Prosecutors are using harsh anti-smuggling laws to jail people who have no connection to criminal offences, say migrants’ lawyers

January 2025

  • Bottom half of person standing on a muddy road with a body lying on the ground, pixillated out, and an inset picture of a young Egyptian man, the one who died on the road.

    Bulgarian police ‘blocked rescue’ of teenage migrants who froze to death

    Report by rights groups alleges border police refused to rescue boys and blocked activists’ efforts to save them

February 2024

  • Video still with blurred out images of a group of men stripped down to their underwear at the border of Serbia and North Macedonia

    Rights and freedom
    Videos show migrants stripped of clothing in freezing temperatures at Serbian border

    Exclusive: footage of semi-naked men is evidence of increasing abuse during illegal pushbacks on Europe’s borders, say rights groups

November 2023

  • Buckled sheets of corrugated-iron roofing and charred breezeblock walls are all that remain of a house on a hilltop. In the background are hills burned brown by fire

    ‘Fire on fire’: how migrants got blamed for Greece’s devastating blazes

    In August, wildfires in Evros killed a group of people, including children, passing along a well-trodden migration route. Locals and politicians made the victims scapegoats for the disaster

September 2023

  • A rear view of a 17-year old boy at a rehab session at the City of Rest centre in Freetown, Sierra Leone.

    ‘It’s like smoking poison’: Sierra Leone’s youth battle addiction to a mystery drug

  • The image displays a cross-sectional view of female workers engaged in various construction tasks at the site. . - Maternal Center of Excellence located in the Kono region, Sierra Leone.

    ‘It is for us, who will give birth here’: the women breaking barriers to build Sierra Leone’s new maternity unit

July 2023

  • Image of vessel on computer screen with a man's hand pointing towards it

    Greek shipwreck: hi-tech investigation suggests coastguard responsible for sinking

    Research into loss of trawler with hundreds of deaths strongly contradicts official accounts – while finding a failure to mobilise help and evidence that survivor statements were tampered with

June 2023

  • Travellers on the outskirts of Agadez in Niger

    Disappeared in the desert: bodies lie in the sand in Niger while Europe pours millions into blocking migration route

    A drive to stop people fleeing northwards has forced migrants to even riskier routes. No one knows the death toll, but one survivor tells how five people died of thirst next to him

May 2023

  • three children in helmets on skateboards holding hands and seen from behind

    ‘It’s an incredible feeling’: the Greek skateboarders getting girls and refugees onboard

    A grassroots charity in Athens is giving lessons in skateboarding to children of refugees and to increasing numbers of girls across the city

April 2023

  • Boys and young men in life jackets struggle to reach shore

    Tories hail Greek migration policies as an example. Instead, they should serve as a warning

    Experience in eastern Mediterranean proves deterrence and harsh conditions do little to discourage refugees

March 2023

  • One woman and her child join thousands fleeing the blaze at the Moria camp on Lesbos, Greece, in September 2020.

    New doubt thrown on Moria arson convictions on eve of appeal hearing

    Lawyers condemn EU asylum policies and demand freedom for young Afghans jailed for 2020 blaze at ‘hellish’ Lesbos camp

January 2023

  • A man stands on Koziakas mountain, part of Pindus range Greece

    Animals farmed
    ‘My heart beats up here’: Greece’s nomadic herders on life in the hills – a photo essay

    For hundreds of years the Vlach herders in Greece and the Balkans have moved livestock to high mountain pastures for the summer months. But their numbers are dwindling as their arduous existence is threatened by soaring costs

November 2022

  • Mohammad Ashraf Rasooli in the Athens flat he faces eviction from.

    ‘Destitution is almost inevitable’: Afghan refugees in Greece left homeless by failed system

    Catch-22 system leaves people facing eviction upon being granted refugee status – yet unable to claim rent subsidies without accommodation

October 2022

  • Officers of Frontex, the EU’s Border and Coast Guard Agency, on the Greek island of Kos. Those pictured are not implicated in any of the allegations.

    EU border agency accused of serious rights violations in leaked report

    Classified document alleges Frontex involvement in cover-ups and illegal pushbacks of asylum seekers from Greece and Malta

September 2022

  • Iasonas Apostolopoulos

    Rights and freedom
    ‘Speak out against pushbacks, you’re an enemy of Greece,’ says refugee hero

    Iasonas Apostolopoulos was due to be awarded a medal but as views on migrants in Greece shifted he now gets death threats

June 2022

  • Silhouettes of two men by an inflatable boat next to a river

    Revealed: Greek police coerce asylum seekers into pushing fellow migrants back to Turkey

    Six forcibly recruited men speak out about brutal illegal pushbacks involving threats, beating and looting

April 2022

  • Three migrants at sea after jumping off an inflatable boat into Turkish waters, 2 April

    Revealed: EU border agency involved in hundreds of refugee pushbacks

  • Anna, 44, and Maria, 14, a mother and daughter, who provide shelter for refugees, Belarus/Poland border

    Rights and freedom
    Smugglers or saviours? Poland’s divided stance on aiding refugees

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