MIGRASYL

News on migration and asylum from around the region - Nouvelles de la région sur les questions de migration et d'asile

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

[Greece] ECRE: Greek Asylum Procedure Violates EU Law

The Greek asylum system is failing and inhuman. Asylum seekers are detained in overcrowded, dirty prisons or forced to live on the streets where many of them face harassment and violence. Some of them are sent back to Turkey in unseaworthy boats. The Dutch Council for Refugees, the Finnish Refugee Advice Centre, PRO ASYL and the British Refugee and Migrant Justice are ringing the alarm bell in a complaint that is filed today with the European Commission. ECRE and 20 other refugee organisations in Europe support the complaint.

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