In the journal European Human Rights Law Review, 2025, Issue 4, our research associates Isabel Kienzle and Melina Riemer discuss the judgments on pushbacks from Greece delivered by the European Court of Human Rights at the beginning of 2025.
In A.R.E. v. Greece and G.R.J. v. Greece, the ECtHR for the first time expressly acknowledged the long-standing systematic practice of pushbacks at Greece’s land and sea borders. Both judgments are shaped significantly by questions of evidence. The article builds on the analysis presented in an previous blog post and offers a critical examination of the ECtHR’s fact-finding.
You can find the full text as a PDF here: Evidencing Pushbacks in Light of a Systematic Practice – ARE v Greece (App. No.1578321) and GRJ v Greece (App. No.1506721)
This material was first published by Thomson Reuters, trading as Sweet & Maxwell, 5 Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London, E14 5AQ, in European Human Rights Law Review, 2025 (4), pp. 506–514, and is reproduced by agreement with the publishers. For further details, please see the publishers’ website.