Uploaded April 2022 | Updated September 2026, 20 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. The judgment will be published on Tuesday, 5 April 2022.
This is Nour, one of the eight applicants. No longer able to cross the border regularly, she joined over 1.500 refugees on the “March of Hope” and walked peacefully from Greece to North Macedonia on 14 March 2016.
After crossing the border, the group were stopped by police who did not let them apply for asylum, but forced them back through a hole in the border without a chance to challenge their expulsion. They are supported in their case by ECCHR and PRO ASYL.
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. The judgment will be published on Tuesday, 5 April 2022.
This is Nour, one of the eight applicants. No longer able to cross the border regularly, she joined over 1.500 refugees on the “March of Hope” and walked peacefully from Greece to North Macedonia on 14 March 2016.
After crossing the border, the group were stopped by police who did not let them apply for asylum, but forced them back through a hole in the border without a chance to challenge their expulsion. They are supported in their case by ECCHR and PRO ASYL.
For more information, go to: www.ecchr.eu/en/case/from-idomeni-to-strasbourg-refugees-demand-their-right-to-have-rights-at-the-ecthr/
