EU border agency reviewing 12 cases of potential rights violations by Greece

FILE PHOTO: A migrant throws a stone, while others climb a fence at the border, as they clash with Greek riot police at Turkey's Pazarkule border crossing with Greece's Kastanies, near Edirne, Turkey, March 6, 2020. REUTERS/Marko Djurica/File Photo

ATHENS (Reuters) - The EU border agency said on Tuesday it was reviewing 12 cases of potential human rights violations by Greece, including some allegations migrants were pushed back across the frontier, a practice for which Athens has already been chastised in European court.

Greece, for years a favoured gateway to Europe for migrants and refugees from the Middle East, Africa and Asia, has been accused by human rights groups of forcefully returning asylum-seekers on its sea and land borders, a practice it denies.