- 🧵We are witnessing a worrying global trend: attacks on NGOs. Greece is no exception! Solidarity and humanitarian aid are not crimes, yet the new migration law criminalises humanitarian work.Jan 15, 2026 16:37
- By making NGO membership an aggravating factor, it exposes aid workers to up to 10 years in prison and heavy fines for simply: 🛟 saving lives 🚑 providing medical care, or ❤️🩹 supporting people seeking asylum.
- This violates EU and international law, ignores repeated recommendations from national and international bodies, and comes at a time of deadly shipwrecks and worsening humanitarian crises at Greece’s borders. Cooperation, not criminalization, is what is needed.
- It goes even further: criminal proceedings against just one NGO member can allow the Minister of Migration to delete the NGO from the official register, even before any conviction.
- During the public consultation, @msf.org called for: 🛑 immediate removal of NGO membership as an aggravating factor 🛡️ explicit protection of humanitarian work from criminal penalties. Humanitarian aid is not a crime but a right, and criminalising it is a deliberate political choice‼️
