How “real” asylum recognition rates are in Greece in
reality… About the temporariness of being a recognised refugee in Greece.
The General Secretary of the Ministry of Citizen
Protection and Public Order, Mr Ath. Andreoulakos is destroying consciously and
illegally the work of the Asylum Committees while he is rejecting arbitrarily
the renewal of the two-year protection status (subsidiary and humanitarian) of
many refugees who then end up without papers.
[...]
NGOs speak of an industry of rejections when it comes
to the renewal of humanitarian or subsidiary protection in Greece. The refugees
who understood they had to renew their papers and who applied for that depend
on the decision of the General Secretary of the Ministry. It is highly
questionable if he has the expertise to take such a decision, but he doesn’t
even examine case by case if the grounds of persecution in each case are still
valid, instead he actually just rejects the applications and turns upside down
the decisions which were taken two years ago by the Asylum Committees.
