On 9 November, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatović, welcomed the opening by the Greek Ombudsman institution - “in its capacity as national mechanism for the investigation of arbitrary incidents by members of the security forces” - of an independent investigation into “the acts and potential omissions of members of the Greek Coast Guard in relation to the shipwreck off Pylos on 14 June this year”.
At the beginning of August, the Commissioner called...