Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
A Syrian refugee, award-winning journalist and human rights advocate filed a complaint on 26 of November 2025 to the Administrative Court in Stuttgart, challenging an unlawful, violent and seemingly racially motivated border control by German officers at the French border. With the support of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), Society for Civil Rights (GFF) and European Network Against Racism (ENAR), the complainant asks the court to confirm the illegal nature of the control. These measures violate fundamental rights under German law, as well as founding principle of EU law, namely the right to move freely in the Schengen zone.
On the same day she spoke at the European Parliament in Strasbourg alongside MEP Melissa Camara, Hanaa Hakiki from the border justice team at ECCHR, Laura Kuttler from GFF and Emmanuel Achiri from ENAR.
EU law says that border controls within Schengen may only be re-introduced as an exceptional measure. But Germany has kept permanent border controls on all of its borders since September 2024 although their justifications are not backed up by the available federal police statistics.
Read more about the case: https://www.ecchr.eu/fall/germanys-border-controls-erode-core-eu-rights/
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A Syrian refugee, award-winning journalist and human rights advocate filed a complaint on 26 of November 2025 to the Administrative Court in Stuttgart, challenging an unlawful, violent and seemingly racially motivated border control by German officers at the French border. With the support of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), Society for Civil Rights (GFF) and European Network Against Racism (ENAR), the complainant asks the court to confirm the illegal nature of the control. These measures violate fundamental rights under German law, as well as founding principle of EU law, namely the right to move freely in the Schengen zone.
On the same day she spoke at the European Parliament in Strasbourg alongside MEP Melissa Camara, Hanaa Hakiki from the border justice team at ECCHR, Laura Kuttler from GFF and Emmanuel Achiri from ENAR.
EU law says that border controls within Schengen may only be re-introduced as an exceptional measure. But Germany has kept permanent border controls on all of its borders since September 2024 although their justifications are not backed up by the available federal police statistics.
Read more about the case: https://www.ecchr.eu/fall/germanys-border-controls-erode-core-eu-rights/
Would you like to receive regular updates on our case work? Subscribe to our newsletter here: https://www.ecchr.eu/en/newsletter-subscription/
