A.R.E. v. Greece - Application No: 15783/21

In line with Rule 9.2 of the Rules of the Committee of Ministers for the supervision of the execution of judgments, BVMN submitted a communication in response to the Action Plan of the Greek government in A.R.E. v. Greece (Application No. 15783/21).

This case concerns the applicant's pushback in May 2019 to Turkey, her country of origin, without individual assessment of the risks she faced there. The Court found that even though the applicant had expressed fears of ill-treatment if she were refouled, the Greek authorities had ignored her request for international protection (violation of Articles 3 and 13).

The case concerned the applicant's arbitrary detention prior to her removal in violation of Article 5 § 1, 2, 4, the Court found a violation of Article 13 of the Convention, taken in conjunction with Articles 2 and 3 of the Convention, on account of the lack of an effective remedy available under the domestic legal system to assess the applicant's allegations of risk of life and ill-treatment if sent back to Turkey, during her informal removal. BVMN evidences that pushbacks and other violations persist in the area of Evros.

This submission further highlights the lack of effective investigations into allegations, persistent deficiencies in disciplinary and administrative investigations, a continued lack of judicial accountability and the ineffectiveness of both the current and newly established independent monitoring mechanisms.