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I.110  The Evros/Meriç River: A Century of Border Design

The Evros/Meriç River: A Century of Border Design

Date of Incident

1926 - 2025

Location

Evros/Meriç river, Greece/Turkey

Forums

Web Platform

In Partnership With

Self-Initiated
First drawn a century ago, the border that separates Greece from Turkey along the Evros/Meriç river at the EU’s southeastern frontier is deadlier and more opaque than ever. FA/Forensis built an interactive platform that unpacks this complex and lethal border infrastructure, and examines the present-day condition of the border against the transformation of the river landscape over the past century.

I.102  German Arms Exports to Israel

Date of Incident

07.10.2023 - Ongoing

Location

Germany, Israel, Palestine

Forums

Legal Process, Human Rights Report

Commissioned By

Self-Initiated
Despite widespread recognition of the growing risk of genocide in Gaza, Germany continues to offer military support to Israel through the supply of arms. Our report on past, current, and potential future arms export licences and deliveries from Germany to Israel supports an urgent application filed by Berlin-based lawyers on behalf of Palestinians in Gaza to stop all such exports.

I.91  Fire in Moria Refugee Camp

Fire in Moria Refugee Camp

Date of Incident

08.09.2020

Location

Lesvos, Greece

Forums

Legal Process, Exhibition, Media

Commissioned By

Lawyers for the Moria 6
The fire which destroyed the Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesvos was at least the 247th outbreak to have occurred in and around the overcrowded camp since 2013. Six young asylum seekers who came to be known as the 'Moria 6' were accused of arson and jailed. FA and Forensis reconstructed the fire’s spread, casting significant doubt on the basis for those convictions.

I.84  Drift-backs in the Aegean Sea

Drift-backs in the Aegean Sea

Date of Incident

March 2020 - Ongoing

Location

Aegean Sea

Forums

Legal Process, Human Rights Report, Media, Parliamentary Inquiry, Web Platform

In Partnership With

Forensis
Asylum seekers crossing the Aegean Sea are intercepted within Greek waters or arrested after they arrive on Greek shores, beaten, stripped of their possessions, and then forcefully loaded onto life rafts and left to drift back to the Turkish coast. FA/Forensis verified and mapped evidence for over 2000 such ‘drift-backs’, demonstrating the scale of this violent and illegal border defence practice.

Data Mining

Data-mining is the practice of creating a database by extracting information from text or video documents of multiple formats. This can be done manually, algorithmically, or by a combination of both.

Manual data-mining begins by determining a set of organising principles for the data, including how the information should be categorised. These principles are determined not only by the content of the source material, but also by considering how that information will ultimately be analysed or presented.

The computer science algorithms in the domain of automated data-mining are known as ‘information retrieval’ (IR) algorithms. Algorithmic data-mining is a powerful mechanism to search vast amounts of content for keywords or phrases, and alongside machine learning processes can be employed to retrieve relevant images, audio, and video from large datasets.