I.110 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.84 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.
Pattern Analysis⤵
Often, the individual incidents that we investigate are part of a wider pattern. Identification of such a pattern can support the assertion that a set of singular abuses or violations of human rights, taken together, are in fact by nature ‘widespread and systematic’—an important standard in a variety of human rights law contexts.
In such a context, pattern analysis can reveal changing trends in the frequency and distribution of certain kinds of violence, and of the targets and casualties of that violence. The larger the dataset, the more reliable and coherent the pattern that might emerge.