On 1 December the BIM together with the Association of Austrian Judges, the Austrian League of Human Rights and Amnesty International Austria asked Austrian politicans as well as the presidents of the High Courts to suspend further deportations of asylum-seekers to Greece in response to the request of the European Court of Human Rights and the recommendations of the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and the Austrian Human Rights Advisory Board.

Interview with Elisabeth Steiner, Judge at the ECHR in Der Standard
Council of Europe anti-torture Committee makes a public statement