On 8 October 2024, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR, the Court) condemned Cyprus for having pushed back two Syrians, M.A. and Z.R., to Lebanon in September 2021. In this blog post, we place the M.A. and Z.R. v Cyprus judgment in the context of our research into why so little of what has been documented about border violence is visible in the Court’s judgments.