@lk2015r.bsky.social
Researcher (non-objective): borders & their violence, border regimes, border tech, pushbacks, the Evros border. 'A provocateur''should be investigated by the state'. Research coordinator with BVMN, posts here personal. No borders. Free Palestine.
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@lk2015r.bsky.social
· Nov 14
But please stay the F away if you can't still bring yourselves to say 'genocide' more than a year after -even if you're otherwise antiracist, antifascist, anarchist, no borders or generally fighting against border regimes/safe routes/for mighant rights (you get the drift).
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In spite of extensive reports of human rights violations against people on the move, @frontex.bsky.social is forging ahead with a plan to deploy “tactical drones” at the Bulgaria-Turkey border.
borderviolence.eu/reports/stat...
In spite of extensive reports of human rights violations against people on the move, @frontex.bsky.social is forging ahead with a plan to deploy “tactical drones” at the Bulgaria-Turkey border.
borderviolence.eu/reports/stat...
Statement on the Frontex pilot drone project in Bulgaria
In spite of extensive reports of human rights violations against people on the move in Bulgaria, the European Border agency Frontex is forging ahead with a plan to deploy so-called tactical drones alo...
borderviolence.eu
June 4, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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In spite of extensive reports of human rights violations against people on the move, @frontex.bsky.social is forging ahead with a plan to deploy “tactical drones” at the Bulgaria-Turkey border.
borderviolence.eu/reports/stat...
In spite of extensive reports of human rights violations against people on the move, @frontex.bsky.social is forging ahead with a plan to deploy “tactical drones” at the Bulgaria-Turkey border.
borderviolence.eu/reports/stat...
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Thank you to @cptlesvos.bsky.social for featuring our research into surveillance technologies in the Evros region in their latest report.
Read our report by our coordinator Lena Karamanidou here: borderviolence.eu/reports/surv...
Read our report by our coordinator Lena Karamanidou here: borderviolence.eu/reports/surv...
June 3, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Thank you to @cptlesvos.bsky.social for featuring our research into surveillance technologies in the Evros region in their latest report.
Read our report by our coordinator Lena Karamanidou here: borderviolence.eu/reports/surv...
Read our report by our coordinator Lena Karamanidou here: borderviolence.eu/reports/surv...
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I was actually bought up in a world where this question didn’t even exist. It’s only in the last 10 years it’s become a national obsession.
I dunno, I was brought up with the understanding that interrogating strangers about their genitals is in fact rude and offensive in and of itself.
May 21, 2025 at 9:58 AM
I was actually bought up in a world where this question didn’t even exist. It’s only in the last 10 years it’s become a national obsession.
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"The violence continues. And it has even increased in areas where @frontex.bsky.social is active," our Research Coordinator Lena Karamanidou told Swiss magazine @magazindaslamm.bsky.social
Read part 1 of this 4-part series on Swiss involvement in Frontex post-referendum: daslamm.ch/das-geheime-...
Read part 1 of this 4-part series on Swiss involvement in Frontex post-referendum: daslamm.ch/das-geheime-...
Das geheime Dokument im Abstimmungskampf
Mehr Geld für Frontex: Das beschlossen die Schweizer Stimmbürger*innen heute vor drei Jahren. Eine geheime Infonotiz zeigt nun: Die Bundesverwaltung hielt brisante Informationen zurück. Derweil gehen ...
daslamm.ch
May 16, 2025 at 10:48 AM
"The violence continues. And it has even increased in areas where @frontex.bsky.social is active," our Research Coordinator Lena Karamanidou told Swiss magazine @magazindaslamm.bsky.social
Read part 1 of this 4-part series on Swiss involvement in Frontex post-referendum: daslamm.ch/das-geheime-...
Read part 1 of this 4-part series on Swiss involvement in Frontex post-referendum: daslamm.ch/das-geheime-...
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EU governments are pushing to set up deportation camps in non-EU countries — and to do so in a way that avoids judicial scrutiny.
These so-called “return hubs” would hold people who have received a final deportation order, even if they cannot be sent to their country of origin.
These so-called “return hubs” would hold people who have received a final deportation order, even if they cannot be sent to their country of origin.
May 16, 2025 at 12:00 PM
EU governments are pushing to set up deportation camps in non-EU countries — and to do so in a way that avoids judicial scrutiny.
These so-called “return hubs” would hold people who have received a final deportation order, even if they cannot be sent to their country of origin.
These so-called “return hubs” would hold people who have received a final deportation order, even if they cannot be sent to their country of origin.
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On 12 January, we made a submission to the UN's Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights ahead of the visit of its Working Group on the use of mercenaries to Cyprus.
borderviolence.eu/reports/subm...
On 12 January, we made a submission to the UN's Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights ahead of the visit of its Working Group on the use of mercenaries to Cyprus.
borderviolence.eu/reports/subm...
May 13, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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On 12 January, we made a submission to the UN's Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights ahead of the visit of its Working Group on the use of mercenaries to Cyprus.
borderviolence.eu/reports/subm...
On 12 January, we made a submission to the UN's Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights ahead of the visit of its Working Group on the use of mercenaries to Cyprus.
borderviolence.eu/reports/subm...
Beyond the fiction that border crossings in #Evros have been reduced to zero, this is the reality: another road accident with many people injured. Another wall have been (nearly) built, crossings might be fewer but they haven't stopped, people are still harmed. 1/
www.evros-news.gr/2025/05/10/s...
www.evros-news.gr/2025/05/10/s...
Σουφλί: Τροχαίο με πολλούς τραυματίες στο Πρωτοκκλήσι – Μεταφέρθηκαν στα Νοσοκομεία Διδυμοτείχου και Αλεξανδρούπολης
www.evros-news.gr
May 10, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Beyond the fiction that border crossings in #Evros have been reduced to zero, this is the reality: another road accident with many people injured. Another wall have been (nearly) built, crossings might be fewer but they haven't stopped, people are still harmed. 1/
www.evros-news.gr/2025/05/10/s...
www.evros-news.gr/2025/05/10/s...
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The Serbian government must prevent the use of sound devices for crowd control, says the European Court of #HumanRights👇
Full press release via hudoc.echr.coe.int/fre-press?i=...
#ECHR
Full press release via hudoc.echr.coe.int/fre-press?i=...
#ECHR
April 30, 2025 at 12:24 PM
The Serbian government must prevent the use of sound devices for crowd control, says the European Court of #HumanRights👇
Full press release via hudoc.echr.coe.int/fre-press?i=...
#ECHR
Full press release via hudoc.echr.coe.int/fre-press?i=...
#ECHR
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Political parties are using #AIGeneratedImages to push racist, anti-migrant agendas. Italy’s #Lega party has published at least 17 social media posts featuring fake, AI generated images. These images depict violent scenes allegedly involving migrants - but the visuals are entirely fabricated.
April 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Political parties are using #AIGeneratedImages to push racist, anti-migrant agendas. Italy’s #Lega party has published at least 17 social media posts featuring fake, AI generated images. These images depict violent scenes allegedly involving migrants - but the visuals are entirely fabricated.
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With @giorgoschristides.bsky.social, we wrote about the dozens of young men under 21 who fled Sudan & are now facing (what their lawyers say are) draconian charges under Greek anti-smuggling legislation. Many have already been handed lengthy sentences in Greece... www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘It was steer or they would kill me’: why Sudanese war refugees are filling prisons in Greece
Prosecutors are using harsh anti-smuggling laws to jail people who have no connection to criminal offences, say migrants’ lawyers
www.theguardian.com
April 28, 2025 at 10:48 AM
With @giorgoschristides.bsky.social, we wrote about the dozens of young men under 21 who fled Sudan & are now facing (what their lawyers say are) draconian charges under Greek anti-smuggling legislation. Many have already been handed lengthy sentences in Greece... www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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#Frontex was previously barred from monitoring social media. Now, under #EUROSUR, the agency wants to use it — claiming it’s for saving lives at sea. An impact assessment will explore if personal data use can be justified for this #SOCMINT:
www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/docume...
www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/docume...
Parliamentary question | Answer for question E-000908/25 | E-000908/2025(ASW) | European Parliament
Answer for question E-000908/25
www.europarl.europa.eu
April 28, 2025 at 1:19 PM
#Frontex was previously barred from monitoring social media. Now, under #EUROSUR, the agency wants to use it — claiming it’s for saving lives at sea. An impact assessment will explore if personal data use can be justified for this #SOCMINT:
www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/docume...
www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/docume...
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Virginia Giuffre, who was the first of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims to go public — accusing Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell of recruiting her to join their sex trafficking ring — and who sued Prince Andrew for sexual assault, died on Friday. She was 41.
Virginia Giuffre, Voice in Epstein Sex-Trafficking Scandal, Dies at 41
She accused Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, of recruiting her to join their sex-trafficking ring and sued Prince Andrew for sexual assault.
www.nytimes.com
April 26, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Virginia Giuffre, who was the first of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims to go public — accusing Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell of recruiting her to join their sex trafficking ring — and who sued Prince Andrew for sexual assault, died on Friday. She was 41.
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Sudan situation ‘absolutely devastating’ as UN ramps up food. Half of its population is facing extreme hunger, and nearly five million children and breastfeeding mothers are severely malnourished. news.un.org/en/story/202...
Sudan situation ‘absolutely devastating’ as UN ramps up food aid
The situation in western Sudan is “shocking” and people in the capital, Khartoum face “absolutely devastating” conditions according to a senior UN official in the African country.
news.un.org
April 26, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Sudan situation ‘absolutely devastating’ as UN ramps up food. Half of its population is facing extreme hunger, and nearly five million children and breastfeeding mothers are severely malnourished. news.un.org/en/story/202...
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The intellectual trap here is seeing the world only as competing states/empires, forcing a false choice of which to support.
The anarchist perspective offers a way out: solidarity with people over states. International solidarity with people resisting ALL forms of oppression, as Al-Shami argued.
The anarchist perspective offers a way out: solidarity with people over states. International solidarity with people resisting ALL forms of oppression, as Al-Shami argued.
The ‘anti-imperialism’ of idiots - Leila Al-Shami
Once more the western ‘anti-war’ movement has awoken to mobilise around Syria. This is the third time since 2011.
libcom.org
April 26, 2025 at 1:57 AM
The intellectual trap here is seeing the world only as competing states/empires, forcing a false choice of which to support.
The anarchist perspective offers a way out: solidarity with people over states. International solidarity with people resisting ALL forms of oppression, as Al-Shami argued.
The anarchist perspective offers a way out: solidarity with people over states. International solidarity with people resisting ALL forms of oppression, as Al-Shami argued.
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My article on “layered surveillance” and creative ways activists maneuvered it in the 2021 #SaveSheikhJarrah movement is now out in @ijoc-usc.bsky.social
This was a great collab with Dana Hasan and Amal Nazzal @ Birzeit university, so please check their other work as well!
ijoc.org/index.php/ij...
This was a great collab with Dana Hasan and Amal Nazzal @ Birzeit university, so please check their other work as well!
ijoc.org/index.php/ij...
Beating Algorithmic Discrimination: Maneuvering Digital Surveillance to Indigenize the Narrative | Hasan | International Journal of Communication
Beating Algorithmic Discrimination: Maneuvering Digital Surveillance to Indigenize the Narrative
ijoc.org
April 26, 2025 at 11:14 AM
My article on “layered surveillance” and creative ways activists maneuvered it in the 2021 #SaveSheikhJarrah movement is now out in @ijoc-usc.bsky.social
This was a great collab with Dana Hasan and Amal Nazzal @ Birzeit university, so please check their other work as well!
ijoc.org/index.php/ij...
This was a great collab with Dana Hasan and Amal Nazzal @ Birzeit university, so please check their other work as well!
ijoc.org/index.php/ij...
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This is really important. Do NOT use the AI summaries at the top of google searches. Ignore them. This is especially important if you don't have any prior knowledge about the topic, but also a good general rule.
Search sources, scrutinize them carefully and double-check with other sources.
Search sources, scrutinize them carefully and double-check with other sources.
Google’s AI Overviews will not only confirm that a gibberish idiom is a real saying, it will also tell you what it means and how it was derived -- often including reference links.
www.wired.com/story/google...
www.wired.com/story/google...
‘You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice’: Google Failures Highlight a Fundamental AI Flaw
Google’s AI Overviews feature credible-sounding explanations for completely made-up idioms.
www.wired.com
April 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
This is really important. Do NOT use the AI summaries at the top of google searches. Ignore them. This is especially important if you don't have any prior knowledge about the topic, but also a good general rule.
Search sources, scrutinize them carefully and double-check with other sources.
Search sources, scrutinize them carefully and double-check with other sources.
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“While women’s rights decline around the globe, the ever-precarious position of women is overshadowed by spectacles such as this spaceflight, as seen just two days later as the UK Supreme Court ruled to exclude trans women from the legal definition of womanhood.”
"Liberal feminism privileges a select few women to, literally in this case, rocket out of the stratosphere and break the glass ceiling, all the while allowing the shards from such a rupture to lacerate the women below them."
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/04/26/t...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/04/26/t...
The Rich ‘Take Up Space’ - Freedom News
The offer of space tourism to rich women is a pastiche of feminism which acts only to showcase the shallowness of corporate liberalism ~ Sourdough ~ Earlier this month, for the first time since Valent...
freedomnews.org.uk
April 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
“While women’s rights decline around the globe, the ever-precarious position of women is overshadowed by spectacles such as this spaceflight, as seen just two days later as the UK Supreme Court ruled to exclude trans women from the legal definition of womanhood.”
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The first step towards improvement is acceptance. Acceptance that Frontex has a serious transparency problem.
In the past 6 months alone, @frontex.bsky.social has twice flouted its obligations under EU transparency rules, according to the @ombudsman.europa.eu.
In the past 6 months alone, @frontex.bsky.social has twice flouted its obligations under EU transparency rules, according to the @ombudsman.europa.eu.
We welcome the @European Ombudsman Ms Teresa Anjinho to reaffirm the Agency’s commitment to transparency and promotion of fundamental rights principles within EU border management.
👣Striving for excellence is a never-ending path. We look forward to walking the path together.
👣Striving for excellence is a never-ending path. We look forward to walking the path together.
April 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM
The first step towards improvement is acceptance. Acceptance that Frontex has a serious transparency problem.
In the past 6 months alone, @frontex.bsky.social has twice flouted its obligations under EU transparency rules, according to the @ombudsman.europa.eu.
In the past 6 months alone, @frontex.bsky.social has twice flouted its obligations under EU transparency rules, according to the @ombudsman.europa.eu.
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Site Profile: The Thessaloniki General Police Directorate (Megaro)
➡️Located in the western side of Thessaloniki
➡️Last visit by the CPT: 2019
➡️Length of detention in testimonies: 8-46 days
Site profile: detentionlandscapes.uwazi.io/en/entity/5w...
➡️Located in the western side of Thessaloniki
➡️Last visit by the CPT: 2019
➡️Length of detention in testimonies: 8-46 days
Site profile: detentionlandscapes.uwazi.io/en/entity/5w...
April 24, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Site Profile: The Thessaloniki General Police Directorate (Megaro)
➡️Located in the western side of Thessaloniki
➡️Last visit by the CPT: 2019
➡️Length of detention in testimonies: 8-46 days
Site profile: detentionlandscapes.uwazi.io/en/entity/5w...
➡️Located in the western side of Thessaloniki
➡️Last visit by the CPT: 2019
➡️Length of detention in testimonies: 8-46 days
Site profile: detentionlandscapes.uwazi.io/en/entity/5w...
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Belgian police want to predict crime—but what they’re doing is reinforcing discrimination.
A new report from Statewatch, Ligue des droits humains and Liga voor Mensenrechten underscores the risks of these ‘predictive’ policing systems.
A new report from Statewatch, Ligue des droits humains and Liga voor Mensenrechten underscores the risks of these ‘predictive’ policing systems.
April 22, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Belgian police want to predict crime—but what they’re doing is reinforcing discrimination.
A new report from Statewatch, Ligue des droits humains and Liga voor Mensenrechten underscores the risks of these ‘predictive’ policing systems.
A new report from Statewatch, Ligue des droits humains and Liga voor Mensenrechten underscores the risks of these ‘predictive’ policing systems.
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Israel is using state-of-the-art technology against Palestinians not only in Gaza, but also against residents in the West Bank.
2024/25 MTM fellow and Palestinian researcher @monashtaya.bsky.social talks with us about life under high tech occupation
➡️ www.migrationtechmonitor.com/blog/monas-b...
2024/25 MTM fellow and Palestinian researcher @monashtaya.bsky.social talks with us about life under high tech occupation
➡️ www.migrationtechmonitor.com/blog/monas-b...
April 22, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Israel is using state-of-the-art technology against Palestinians not only in Gaza, but also against residents in the West Bank.
2024/25 MTM fellow and Palestinian researcher @monashtaya.bsky.social talks with us about life under high tech occupation
➡️ www.migrationtechmonitor.com/blog/monas-b...
2024/25 MTM fellow and Palestinian researcher @monashtaya.bsky.social talks with us about life under high tech occupation
➡️ www.migrationtechmonitor.com/blog/monas-b...
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Israeli strikes kill 14 in Gaza and destroy heavy equipment needed to clear rubble | AP News apnews.com/article/isra...
Israeli strikes kill 14 in Gaza and destroy heavy equipment needed to clear rubble
Israeli strikes have killed at least 14 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, mostly women and children, and destroyed bulldozers and other heavy equipment that had been supplied by mediators to clear rubbl...
apnews.com
April 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Israeli strikes kill 14 in Gaza and destroy heavy equipment needed to clear rubble | AP News apnews.com/article/isra...
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Do Customs and Border Protection officials have the authority to search your phone at the border? Short answer? Yes.
Here’s what you can do to protect your digital life while at the US border.
Here’s what you can do to protect your digital life while at the US border.
How to Protect Yourself From Phone Searches at the US Border
Customs and Border Protection has broad authority to search travelers’ devices when they cross into the United States. Here’s what you can do to protect your digital life while at the US border.
www.wired.com
April 21, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Do Customs and Border Protection officials have the authority to search your phone at the border? Short answer? Yes.
Here’s what you can do to protect your digital life while at the US border.
Here’s what you can do to protect your digital life while at the US border.
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🟠BVMN’s February report is now online.
borderviolence.eu/reports/balk...
With contributions from our member organisations, partners and working groups, this edition covers, among other things:
❌ Arrival of the "Schengen bus" and other surveillance equipment to Serbia
🟠BVMN’s February report is now online.
borderviolence.eu/reports/balk...
With contributions from our member organisations, partners and working groups, this edition covers, among other things:
❌ Arrival of the "Schengen bus" and other surveillance equipment to Serbia
April 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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🟠BVMN’s February report is now online.
borderviolence.eu/reports/balk...
With contributions from our member organisations, partners and working groups, this edition covers, among other things:
❌ Arrival of the "Schengen bus" and other surveillance equipment to Serbia
🟠BVMN’s February report is now online.
borderviolence.eu/reports/balk...
With contributions from our member organisations, partners and working groups, this edition covers, among other things:
❌ Arrival of the "Schengen bus" and other surveillance equipment to Serbia
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Site Profile: The Special Ηolding Facility of the Thessaloniki Aliens Police Directorate (Metagogon)
➡️Located in an old factory warehouse building
➡️Last visit by the CPT: 2016
➡️Average length of detention: 36 days
Site profile: detentionlandscapes.uwazi.io/en/entity/av...
➡️Located in an old factory warehouse building
➡️Last visit by the CPT: 2016
➡️Average length of detention: 36 days
Site profile: detentionlandscapes.uwazi.io/en/entity/av...
April 22, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Site Profile: The Special Ηolding Facility of the Thessaloniki Aliens Police Directorate (Metagogon)
➡️Located in an old factory warehouse building
➡️Last visit by the CPT: 2016
➡️Average length of detention: 36 days
Site profile: detentionlandscapes.uwazi.io/en/entity/av...
➡️Located in an old factory warehouse building
➡️Last visit by the CPT: 2016
➡️Average length of detention: 36 days
Site profile: detentionlandscapes.uwazi.io/en/entity/av...