GREECE is being taken to the European Court of Human Rights for its massive “pushback” operation, in which more than 180 migrants were expelled to Turkey last year.

Rights campaigners said today that the Legal Centre Lesbos (LCL) has filed the complaint with the court after the “violent expulsion” that took place over two days in October.

The centre is representing 11 Syrian nationals who were part of a group of between 180 and 200 people, including 40 children, forced back to sea to make a hazardous crossing to Turkey.