Refugee pushbacks: Greece prepares to indict whistleblowers
Among the 27 passengers, 11 were children. Their destination was the Greek island of Lesbos. By 4:31am, when they were just 450 metres (1,476 feet) from Lesbos’s northern shore, their engine sputtered out. At 5:20am, a Greek coastguard vessel spotted them, took the passengers on board, sped them back into Turkish territorial waters, transferred them onto a life raft and notified the Turkish coastguard to pick them up. That story, with precise geolocation coordinates and timings, was told by Aegean Boat Report (ABR), a non-governmental organisation run from Tromso by a Norwegian named Tommy ...
Source: aljazeera.com