A rare set of Mycenaean boar’s tusk helmets, the distinctive Bronze Age headgear famously described in a Homeric epic, has reportedly been uncovered in southwestern Greece near Pylos. The find is ...

(Brussels) – Starkly divergent accounts from survivors and Greek authorities around the circumstances of the deadly Pylos shipwreck underscore the urgent need for an effective, independent, and ...

On Thursday, two human rights organisations called for an independent investigation into the actions of the Greek coast guard after the June sinking of a migrant vessel off the coast of Pylos, Greece, ...

One year ago, in the early morning of June 14, 2023, a fishing trawler with over 750 refugees on board sank off the Greek Peloponnese peninsula. More than 600 people drowned, including many women and ...

One year since the tragic shipwreck off the coast of Pylos, which claimed the lives of hundreds of refugees and migrants, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the International Organization for Migration ...

(Athens, May 17, 2024) – The imminent trial of nine survivors of the June 2023 Pylos shipwreck off Greece raises fair trial concerns, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International said today. The ...

Seventeen coastguards have been charged by naval court in Greece over one of the deadliest mass drownings of a migrant boat in the Mediterranean Sea. Last week the Deputy Prosecutor of the Piraeus ...

The trial of nine Egyptian survivors of the 2023 Pylos shipwreck, accused of people smuggling, resulting in the deaths of dozens of people on board, began in Greece amid concerns voiced by ...

On June 14, 2023, a ship capsized in the Mediterranean Sea, sinking off the coast of Greece. Despite a rescue mission that saved over 100 people, more than 600 lives were lost. The International ...

Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have urged the Greek authorities to secure truth and justice for survivors and families of the victims of the Pylos shipwreck that killed some 600 people.