On June 9th, 2014 refugees detained in Corinth
detention centre began a hunger strike to protest against indefinite detention.
In February 2014, the Greek authorities had announced a policy of indefinite
detention until repatriation, based on an opinion of the Legal Council of the
Greek State. Only recently Athens court considered in an appeal-case of an
Afghan refugee that the detention of more than 18 months is against national
and European legislation and asked for it to be revoked.
Letter from the
detainees:
Many undocumented refugees were arrested by the
Greek authorities since a year and a half (August 2012). The massive controls
and arrests were realised in a very racist and cruel way. People were brought
in detention centres all around Greece. Without going into a lot of details
about the bad situation that we, all these refugees, went through, our only
fault was that we didn’t have a piece of paper.
