Friday, 1 January 2021, 6:57 am
The situation of 1,000 asylum seekers at the EU-funded
“new Malakasa” detention center on the outskirts of
Athens in Greece is gravely concerning, the
Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said in a statement
today. With no running water, frequent power outages and
tents unequipped to withstand harshly cold winters, the
appalling conditions migrants and asylum seekers are forced
to endure indefinitely in these camps pose serious risks to
their physical and mental health and wellbeing.
In
March 2020, as the Greek government unlawfully issued an
emergency decree that suspended asylum procedures, migrants
arriving to the country were placed in informal detention
Athens
Attikír
Greece
Afghanistan
Congo
Syria
Malakasa
Perifereia-attikis
Kleidi
Perifereia-kentrikis-makedonias
Somalia
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