The Greek authorities acted unlawfully in failing to protect refugees who perished in a mass drowning in the Aegean Sea that left 11 people dead, a court has concluded in a landmark ruling.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) also found that Greek officials unlawfully subjected 12 of the survivors to degrading treatment by strip-searching them when they reached land, and failed to carry out an effective investigation into the circumstances in which the boat had sunk.
