Today, @president.europarl.europa.eu condemned last month's ‘send them back’ chants in the European Parliament. But condemnation alone is not enough. "This must be a moment of reckoning to confront racism in Europe," says Amnesty's @dinushika.bsky.social www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

EU: ‘Send them back’ chants a moment of reckoning to confront racism in Europe

The ugly scenes of Members of the European Parliament chanting ‘send them back’ must be a moment of reckoning to confront racism in Europe.

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As @europarl.europa.eu passes its punitive detention & deportation law, Amnesty's @oliviasundberg.bsky.social spoke to @news.abc.net.au about the hostile environment for migrants in Europe & beyond. "Return hubs cannot be human rights compliant & should be rejected." www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vve...

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The Taliban is expected in Brussels tomorrow for talks on deportation cooperation. @amnesty.org reiterates the obvious: #Afghanistan is not safe, and as the EU knows well, anyone sent back will face immense danger. These talks must halt immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/w...

Taliban Officials to Head to Brussels for Talks on Afghan Deportees

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Avui la nostra companya @oliviasundberg.bsky.social berg.bsky.social @amnestyeu.bsky.social ha participat en roda de premsa de @centreiridia.bsky.social i @novact.bsky.social sobre implicacions en matèria de #dretshumans de l’aplicació del nou Pacte Europeu de Migració i Asil. 👉 FIL amb vídeos

On March 9th, the European Parliament's LIBE Committee voted on its position on the contested Return Regulation proposal. @oliviasundberg.bsky.social discusses the dangers of this shift towards more draconian policies after rushed negotiations: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Today on @bordercrim.bsky.social: My thoughts on the European Parliament's worrying vote on the Return Regulation. Rushed negotiations, contentious alliances & draconian policies are paving the way for a dangerous and deeply harmful final agreement. blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

The European Parliament’s vote on deportation rules: Rushed

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BREAKING: @europarl.europa.eu LIBE committee greenlights punitive detention and deportation plans. Parliament’s position follows chaotic & rushed negotiations with a new text presented by @eppgroup.bsky.social just days ago that lacks adequate scrutiny, consultations or human rights assessments.

Sally Rooney: "I would like to ask my fellow writers & artists.. not to dwell too exclusively on what we stand to lose. There is another more important side to the story. To join in something greater than ourselves, to participate in.. a struggle for human liberation"

Ahead of next week’s expected vote on the Return Regulation, @amnesty.org reiterates the need to uphold international human rights obligations. See 10 key takeaways from our roundtable with OHCHR Europe, @picumofficial.bsky.social & @ceps.eu earlier this week👇

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Insightful discussion on the human rights risks in the EU’s return proposal at a panel organized by @amnestyeu.bsky.social & OHCHR Europe, in collaboration with @ceps.eu & @picumofficial.bsky.social, bringing together policymakers from across EU institutions, UN experts, civil society & academics.

Yesterday the EU unveiled a new visa and migration strategy. As I told @afp.com this continues a flawed approach that only heightens the EU's dependence on third countries to manage migration, while making it complicit in resulting rights violations: www.france24.com/en/live-news...

EU: New rules on asylum and ‘safe countries’ undermine the foundation of refugee protection Sidestepping international legal obligations & further shifting responsibility for refugee protection to non-EU countries is an affront to human dignity 👇 www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Benham Satah, friend of @amnesty.org & survivor of Australia's inhumane offshore detention system came to Brussels to speak to EU politicians and civil society about why the EU must not follow suit with similar cruel & unlawful offshoring plans.

“This approach mirrors the harrowing, dehumanising and unlawful mass arrests, detention and deportations in the US, which are tearing families apart and devastating communities,” Amnesty International’s Olivia Sundberg Diez said. www.ft.com/content/e479...

EU backs migration ‘return hubs’ in echo of Trump’s crackdown

Home affairs ministers agree new measures making it easier to deport failed asylum seekers

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BREAKING: EU Ministers propose unprecedented detention, sanctions, and stripping of rights based on migration status. Mirroring the US, EU proposals will tear families apart & devastate communities. They must be reversed immediately, says @oliviasundberg.bsky.social www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

EU: Ministers propose unprecedented detention, sanctions, and stripping of rights based on migration status

The EU’s insistence on ramping up deportations, raids, surveillance, and detention at any cost is dogged and misguided.

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Greece: EU's bellwether for migration restrictions? Suspended access to asylum, mass detention, sweeping deportations - @oliviasundberg.bsky.social tells @aljazeera.com “Greece has become a testing ground for many EU measures, especially on the Greek islands." www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...

Greece’s expansive refugee deportation law tests limits of rights in EU

Rights groups say Greece is acting as Brussels’ bellwether for measures that aren’t always legal, moral, implementable.

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@amnesty.org joins over 200 organisations in calling for rejection of the @ec.europa.eu’s ‘Return Regulation’. The new proposal on deportations would vastly expand detention, strip away rights, and trap more people in legal limbo and dangerous conditions.

More than 200 Organisations: Inhumane Deportation Rules Should be Rejected – European Institutions Office

On 11 March 2025, the European Commission presented a new proposal for a Return Regulation to replace the current Return Directive. Behind the euphemistic name, the proposal outlines coercive, traumat...

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Shameful vote in the #Greek Parliament today on a proposal to suspend asylum applications for three months for people arriving by boat from North Africa. Equally shameful is the @ec.europa.eu's apparent endorsement, stating that Greece is in "an exceptional situation". Let's be clear...

"The EU’s migration cooperation with Libya is morally bankrupt and amounts to complicity in horrific human rights violations," says @evegeddie.bsky.social Today @magnusbrunner.bsky.social is in Libya with ministers to discuss migration cooperation 🧵 www.amnesty.eu/news/eu-liby...

EU-Libya: EU’s migration cooperation with Libya is ‘morally bankrupt’ and amounts to complicity in violations – European Institutions Office

Ahead of a visit by EU Migration Commissioner Brunner and EU ministers to Libya to discuss migration cooperation on 8 July, Eve Geddie, the Director of Amnesty International’s European Institutions Of...

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NEW: @ec.europa.eu ‘safe third country’ proposals cynical attempt to downgrade rights & offload responsibilities. "The EU should invest in its own asylum systems & let people seeking asylum start rebuilding their lives," says @oliviasundberg.bsky.social Read👇

EU: New ‘safe third country’ proposals cynical attempt to downgrade rights and offload asylum responsibilities

Responding to the European Commission’s proposal to amend the ‘safe third country’ concept by allowing EU member states to forcibly send people seeking asylum to countries where they have no connectio...

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While @ec.europa.eu defends declaring Tunisia a safe country to return Tunisians to, @amnesty.org’s @oliviasundberg.bsky.social warns that the assessment “absolutely downplays the human rights backsliding that we've seen in the last few years”. Via @euobserver.com 👇

EU commission defends declaring Tunisia as 'safe'

The European Commission continues to defend Tunisia as 'safe' for prospective Tunisians wanting international protection in Europe.

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Benham Satah was detained in Manus for seven years by the Australian government. He shared with @politico.eu a harrowing account of what offshore detention means in practice. As European states make similar plans, they should read his testimony and think twice. www.politico.eu/article/offs...

Offshore detention is inhumane — I know because I lived it

Europe’s nations have proposed establishing refugee “return hubs” in third-party countries outside their jurisdiction for failed asylum seekers. But they should think twice.

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OPINION: Kurdish Iranian refugee Benham Satah spent a harrowing seven years detained by the Australian government in Papua New Guinea. It’s a cautionary tale for European nations that have proposed establishing refugee “return hubs” in third-party countries outside their jurisdiction.

Offshore detention is inhumane — I know because I lived it

Europe’s nations have proposed establishing refugee “return hubs” in third-party countries outside their jurisdiction for failed asylum seekers. But they should think twice.

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Out today in @politico.eu: A harrowing account of what offshore detention means in practice, from someone who lived it. Benham Satah spent seven years detained by the Australian government in Manus, where he witnessed violence, death, trauma, neglect and abuse. www.politico.eu/article/offs...

Offshore detention is inhumane — I know because I lived it

Europe’s nations have proposed establishing refugee “return hubs” in third-party countries outside their jurisdiction for failed asylum seekers. But they should think twice.

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Italy-Albania: Italian government’s plans to forcibly transfer people detained in immigration centres in Italy to Albania must be stopped. These plans are nothing more than a desperate attempt to revive the expensive and unlawful Italy-Albania protocol 🧵

The @ec.europa.eu published its proposal on Return Regulation Overall, the Return regulation proposal severely limits procedural safeguards and restricts migrants' rights to appeal against the return decision and detention.

Today's EU proposals on return are a "new low", says @amnestyeu.bsky.social. The @ec.europa.eu has caved to unworkable and inhumane demands of a few anti-migration govts. Beyond return hubs, it sets out a disproportionate and punitive approach to returns that ignores all evidence. bit.ly/3DyuTbB

EU: Return proposals a “new low” for Europe’s treatment of migrants

Today, the European Commission introduced a proposed revision to the 2008 Return Directive, amending the EU legal framework on returns or deportations outside of the EU. Following pressure from certai...

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Details on the new Common European System for Returns up now: ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Commission proposes a new Common European System for Returns

Today, the European Commission is proposing to establish a Common European System for Returns with swifter, simpler and more effective return procedures across the EU. Announced by President von der L...

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Today, @ec.europa.eu will announce new return proposals – paving the way for ‘return hubs’ or deportation centres outside the EU & widescale detention in Europe. Unworkable, expensive and inhumane – here's why these proposals won’t work & what the EU should do instead🧵

What do we know about @ec.europa.eu return proposals tomorrow? Whether or not return hubs are explicitly named in the law, the proposals will be about stripping away peoples' rights & dignity. A new low for the EU. @nikolajnielsen.bsky.social via @euobserver.com euobserver.com/migration/ar...

EU to expand deportation regime as Europe turns against migrants

A new EU-wide deportation regime is set to be unveiled by the European Commission on Tuesday, raising alarm among rights defenders as the bloc continues its political push to crack down on migration.

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New @ec.europa.eu proposals on #returns are expected tomorrow, but what will this entail? With 'return hubs' expected to feature (whether implied or explicit), it's useful to look at other examples of this "futile, expensive, cruel and illegal" strategy elsewhere: euobserver.com/migration/ar...

EU to expand deportation regime as Europe turns against migrants

A new EU-wide deportation regime is set to be unveiled by the European Commission on Tuesday, raising alarm among rights defenders as the bloc continues its political push to crack down on migration.

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