GREEK forces on their country’s border with Turkey are engaged in “systematic and continuous” illegal pushbacks of migrants with the “help of EU agents,” new research has found. 

For years, migrants and refugees fleeing persecution by crossing the Evros river between Turkey and Greece have testified that they have been detained, beaten and forcibly expelled by unidentified masked men at night without being allowed access to asylum procedures. 

Such actions, known as “pushbacks,” are illegal under international law.