Via Kathimerini
Deputy Citizens’ Protection Minister Spyros Vougias yesterday condemned the “wretched and inhumane” conditions at an overcrowded migrant detention center on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos and pledged to work with other government ministries to improve the quality of accommodation offered to would-be migrants and refugees arriving in Greece from Turkey.
“We will seek to [...]
Via Kathimerini
Citizens’ Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis yesterday sacked police chief Vassilis Tsiatouras, just a few hours after the “unacceptable” arrests of several members of a left-wing party and journalists during a police sweep in the central district of Exarchia on Wednesday night.
“This behavior by police, who raided a venue where a book was being launched [...]
Via Kathimerini
Deputy Citizens’ Protection Minister Spyros Vougias yesterday heralded an investigation into the fate of several hundred thousand euros in European Union funding released to the previous conservative government for the purpose of accommodating a relentless influx of illegal immigrants into Greece from neighboring Turkey.
“We are going to look at where this money went as [...]
There seems to be a huge amount of talk about changes that Pasok (the recently elected socialist government in Greece) are keen to bring in. I sincerely hope that this is more than just chatter. There are many thousands of children born here to immigrant parents waiting to be granted citizenship.
I have a friend who [...]
Is this a change of heart from this previous attitude ?
Via Kathimerini
Migrants to join police
Minister wants foreigners on the force, orders probe into Pakistani death
Citizens’ Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis yesterday said he was determined to integrate immigrants into the police force following talks with members of the Pakistani community regarding the death of a 25-year-old [...]
The BBC’s Europe editor Gavin Hewitt has an article up at his blog called Greece’s Immigrants in Limbo
On a hill above the town of Samos in eastern Greece are a series of long buildings with grey walls and red roofs. They could be a barracks but this is a detention centre for immigrants. It [...]
The Human Rights Watch has released a report on Greece saying that
The European Union should press the newly elected Greek government to end the abusive detention and summary expulsions of migrants, including unaccompanied children, and to reform the country’s broken asylum system
You can read the full report here
Also, see the latest news article from the [...]
Via the Balkan Travellers
Thousands of Muslims in Athens appealed for the construction of a mosque to Greece’s new government in the framework of the international congress dedicated to Muslim communities and their cultural identity.
The congress took place for the first time in the country, the national Ta Nea newspaper reported today.
Athens is the only European [...]
Via the Athens News
ROZITA has spent one-third of her life in prison. She’s three years old.
Her parents, undocumented migrants from Afghanistan, were arrested in Greece and sentenced for forgery and immigration violations. They had illegally entered the country last year and were caught trying to leave on forged passports.
A court in Kilkis, a town in [...]
My apologies to everyone commenting here for not being around… again. I have so many things going on in my personal life that my head is spinning a bit and I have not been able to even read all your comments properly, let alone formulate “proper” content. I will post something about what is going [...]
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