Uploaded April 2022 | Updated September 2026, 6 hours ago
Europe abruptly sealed off its borders along the so-called Balkan route in 2016, shutting down legal pathways facilitated during the 2015 “summer of migration.” The consequences were foreseeable: thousands locked in squalor along the border and the brutal enforcement of the closures.
A group of Syrians, Afghans and Iraqis now expect answers from the European Court of Human Rights. In 2016, they submitted a case to the court regarding their illegal collective expulsion from North Macedonia into Greece.
Now, the judgment by the ECHR has been published, determining the mass pushback as lawful. Hear Nour + Dayana, two of the eight applicants, react to the judges decision.
For more information, go to: www.ecchr.eu/en/case/from-idomeni-to-strasbourg-refugees-demand-their-right-to-have-rights-at-the-ecthr/
Europe abruptly sealed off its borders along the so-called Balkan route in 2016, shutting down legal pathways facilitated during the 2015 “summer of migration.” The consequences were foreseeable: thousands locked in squalor along the border and the brutal enforcement of the closures.
A group of Syrians, Afghans and Iraqis now expect answers from the European Court of Human Rights. In 2016, they submitted a case to the court regarding their illegal collective expulsion from North Macedonia into Greece.
Now, the judgment by the ECHR has been published, determining the mass pushback as lawful. Hear Nour + Dayana, two of the eight applicants, react to the judges decision.
For more information, go to: www.ecchr.eu/en/case/from-idomeni-to-strasbourg-refugees-demand-their-right-to-have-rights-at-the-ecthr/
