On Thursday, two human rights organisations called for an independent investigation into the actions of the Greek coast guard after the June sinking of a migrant vessel off the coast of Pylos, Greece, ...

(Athens, May 17, 2024) – The imminent trial of nine survivors of the June 2023 Pylos shipwreck off Greece raises fair trial concerns, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International said today. The ...

UC archaeologists found a 3,500-year-old tomb of the 'Griffin Warrior' in Greece, revealing Mycenaean artifacts.

One year ago, in the early morning of June 14, 2023, a fishing trawler with over 750 refugees on board sank off the Greek Peloponnese peninsula. More than 600 people drowned, including many women and ...

On June 14, 2023, an overcrowded, unseaworthy boat capsized off the coast of Pylos, Greece. Only 104 of the estimated 750 passengers survived. A year later, despite many independent reports and ...

The trial of nine Egyptian survivors of the 2023 Pylos shipwreck, accused of people smuggling, resulting in the deaths of dozens of people on board, began in Greece amid concerns voiced by ...

Survivors and other members of the Pakistani community in Greece hold a banner with pictures of victims of one of the worst migrant boat tragedies during a protest by the Movement United Against ...

Seventeen coastguards have been charged by naval court in Greece over one of the deadliest mass drownings of a migrant boat in the Mediterranean Sea. Last week the Deputy Prosecutor of the Piraeus ...

Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have urged the Greek authorities to secure truth and justice for survivors and families of the victims of the Pylos shipwreck that killed some 600 people.

A rescue operation was underway Wednesday morning for dozens of migrants on board a yacht reported to be in difficulty off the southwestern coast of Greece, authorities said. The coast guard said the ...