The Bulgarian asylum system appears designed to obstruct humanitarian assistance at every turn.

When even Frontex describes feeling “powerless” and “pressured into silence” by border guards, something has gone fundamentally wrong.

These testimonies are difficult to read. But we need to listen.

The words in this post come from asylum seekers detained in Bulgaria in August 2025.

Another case of police aggression against activists supporting people on the move in Bulgaria 😤

“The premises were prison-like.”

We continued digging deeper into what is REALLY happening at the border and inside detention centres, often out of sight and inaccessible to human rights organisations...

In October 2022, five people called emergency services in Bulgaria to request urgent medical assistance…

To better understand the criminalisation of humanitarian workers, we launched a new series exploring the systems behind criminalisation…