It has lasted 36 years, but at last Sonja ter Laag can see the man who had her brother, IKON journalist Hans ter Laag, murdered. That happened in 1982 in El Salvador. The program Zembla unmasked the man, while Sister Sonja is on Lesbos for a reportage that has common ground with the work where her brother was killed.
Greece will transfer 2000 migrants from a shelter on the island of Lesbos to the mainland before the end of the month. The Moria relief center accommodates between 2000 and 3000 refugees, but according to figures from the Greek government, there are now around 9000 people.
The Greek authorities are threatening to close the large reception center for migrants in Lesvos. The governor of the North Aegean states that inspectors have found frightening conditions. If the problems are not resolved within thirty days, the camp must close.
The United Nations refugee organization is alarming the situation in the overcrowded refugee camp Moria on Lesvos. The situation reaches a 'boiling point' there, says a UNHCR spokesperson.
At least six people were killed when a boat capsized off the Turkish coast. The vessel was on its way to the Greek island of Lesbos, reports the Turkish state press agency Anadolu. The Coast Guard was able to save nine passengers. A person is still missing.
Out of dissatisfaction with the crowded refugee camps and the planned increase in VAT, most cafes and restaurants on the Greek tourist island of Lesbos remain closed on Thursday. There are also demonstrations scheduled for Thursday evening. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will then visit Lesvos.
Severe injuries have been caused by serious battles between migrants on the Greek island of Lesbos. According to local media, groups of Afghans and Syrians had been put on hold in the refugee camp Moria for unclear reasons.
Approximately 15,000 people on Greek islands are waiting for a government decision on their migration request. The governor of the islands in the eastern part of the Aegean Sea blames the endless official procedure and the shortage of civil servants.
The Greek government gets thousands of migrants from the camps on some islands in the Aegean Sea. By order of the Ministry of the Interior, 250 people have been picked up by boat on the island of Lesbos and taken to the port of Piraeus.
The European Union does its utmost to prevent migrants stuck on Greek islands from being exposed to winter conditions again. 'We can not repeat last year,' said EU Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos (Migration) in the European Parliament on Wednesday.
During a police raid, 53-month asylum seekers were arrested in the Greek Moria reception center on Lesbos. The migrants had no papers or were rejected for the second time for a residence permit.
Many residents of the village of Vrisa on the Greek island of Lesbos spent the night of monday on tents in hotels, tents or a monastery. The authorities evacuated the village after a heavy earthquake with a force of 6.3.
Greece, along with the organization that has been monitoring the EU's external borders (Frontex), has returned 71 migrants to Turkey since Wednesday. The returned refugees came from the islands of Chios, Lesbos and Kos.
The reception of unaccompanied child migrants on Italian and Greek islands is lacking. Therefore, a child protection official must be stationed at each shelter, the European Court of Auditors believes.
On the coast of the Greek island of Lesbos, at least fifteen refugees, including one child, drowned when their inflatable boat sank. That made Greek authorities known on Monday. The boat was supposed to leave Turkey on Sunday evening.
Pope Franciscus has compared the refugee centers on the Greek islands to concentration camps. He said that Saturday at a memorial in Rome. The pope found that the centers are largely deprived of concentration camps in Nazi times by the amount of people staying there.
Through a series of minor earthquakes beneath the Aegean Sea are hundreds of homes damaged on the west coast of Turkey, more than two hundred buildings even very heavy in the Canakkale province. That the channel CNN Türk reported Tuesday.
The inhabitants of the Greek island of Lesbos on Monday rocked by a series of earthquakes. Also at the nearby Turkish coast the people felt the ground tremble.
Greece, other EU Member States and international organizations must pull out all the stops to improve the situation of migrants in the Greek islands. More help is needed immediately. That call did Commissioner Dimitri Avramopoulos Wednesday during a visit to the Greek island of Lesbos, where thousands of migrants staying in harsh winter conditions.
Refugees and migrants dying from the cold wave in Europe and governments must do more to help. With that message came the refugee agency of the United Nations (UNHCR) on Friday.
Despite the icy winter weather and the sometimes strong winds since early this year, 337 refugees and migrants by boat daring to cross from Turkey to the Greek islands. Just on Tuesday, 41 people arrived on the island of Kos.
Many residents of Crete saw Sunday for the first time in their lives snow. It had been snowing for the last forty years ago. The wider area of the port town of Rethymnon on the southern Greek island had long once winter white.
Greece on Monday ten Syrians sent back to Turkey in the framework of an agreement on refugees between Turkey and the EU. The ten, seven men, two children and a woman, have withdrawn their request for asylum and voluntarily returned to Turkey. They are flown from the island of Lesbos in the Turkish city of Adana.
A woman and a child were killed by fire in a refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos. Another woman and another child suffered severe burns. Other applicants were slightly injured. Which reported both Greek media as the Dutch Refugee Foundation Boot. A medical team of the organization has provided onsite assistance.
Police have more than 200 people arrested during an uprising in the largest refugee camp in Bulgaria, where 3,000 people live. When the action of water cannons were deployed and were shot with rubber bullets to restore calm. There were 14 officers injured. Whether any refugees have been injured is not yet known.
At protests in a camp for refugees on the Greek island of Lesbos was founded Monday fire. Multiple containers in which the camp administration was located, went up in flames.
On the Greek island of Lesbos is working on the temporary restoration of a large refugee camp was destroyed by fire on Monday. The Greek newspaper Kathimerini reported on Wednesday that now half of the estimated 4,400 migrants from the camp is returned.
"After a major fire Monday night in a packed refugee center on the Greek island of Lesbos on Tuesday arrested eighteen migrants. They are suspected of being responsible for the fire, which at least 60 percent of the center to ashes."
Smartphones are important for refugees, they can keep in touch with each other and with family members. But in a refugee camp or on the road, it is difficult to charge the phones. Therefore Scottish students invented something new: the charger on solar energy.
A group of refugees Wednesday from the Greek island of Lesbos returned to Turkey. That's for first time since the treaty between the EU and Turkey came into force on returning migrants who had fled by sea to Greece.
