Category Archives: Greece

‘What does Europe want from us?’ – Migrants detained for months on end in Greece

By Irem Arf Rayfield, Researcher on Refugee and Migrants’ Rights in Europe Flying back from our research mission in Greece, I can’t shake off the image of exhaustion in the eyes of the newly arrived migrants on the island of … Continue reading

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‘The world needs to know what’s happening here’ – Migrants living on the margins in Athens

By Naomi Westland, Press Officer at Amnesty International UK who has joined Amnesty’s researchers in Greece investigating what happens to refugees and migrants trying to get to Europe Last week I wrote from the island of Lesvos, where my colleagues … Continue reading

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‘Why don’t they just send me back to die?’ – Migrants despair on Europe’s borders

By Naomi Westland, Press Officer at Amnesty International UK who has joined Amnesty’s researchers in Greece investigating what happens to refugees and migrants trying to get to Europe There is a rustic charm about Mytilene, the ramshackle port capital of … Continue reading

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‘I want all the world to know about us’

By Giorgos Kosmopoulos, Amnesty International’s EU team campaigner and Carmen Dupont, European campaign coordinator on migration. For many people flying to Greece means sunshine and leisure. Indeed the sun is shining today and the sea is blue and tempting. But … Continue reading

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No access, no hope

Limited and inhumane; Access to asylum in Greece is degrading and uncertain By the Refugee Network of the Greek Section of Amnesty International Amnesty International joins the scores of asylum seekers queuing in the early hours of a Saturday morning … Continue reading

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