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 organisation “Greece: Escalating Risks for Migrants, Unaccompanied Children”
“Greece’s illegal expulsions have reached a new level,” said Simone Troller, researcher at Human Rights Watch, “Migrants are now being arrested throughout the country and then pushed back to Turkey. Clearly, people who need protection are not safe in Greece.”
Greece’s dysfunctional asylum system is entirely in the hands of police, who create obstacles to filing asylum claims and deny asylum seekers fair hearings and assessments of their claims. More than 99 percent of asylum seekers are denied after their first interview. In July, the previous government effectively abolished asylum appeal procedures, a standard requirement under European and international human rights law. The action left adults and children alike with no effective remedy and at risk of being deported to places where their lives and safety may be at risk.
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You’d think that HRW would understand by now, that in Greece there is simply no such thing as law and nobody can give a fcuk. Why do they bother when the rest of Europe has just given up with Greece?
I wonder why the EU has not really done anything with Teeth to Greece. Seems like most sanctions, fines, etc are just slaps on the wrist
Most likely because the northern european states want the southern europeans states to do their dirty work.
Because if they did fine Greece etc..then Greece or italy or malta etc..would complain and then while things would improve, the northerners would not get away with unloading the asylum cases on the southerners and responsibility (people) would b distributed more evenly..
Anyway the point is most of these people do not want Greece as their final destination anyway..they want to go to Sweden, UK France etc.. so the aforementioned know that and just play along with the game.
but Xenos is right Greece is still responsible..or rather irresponsible….they dont do right by their own underclass..and the church is rich while many greeks are struggling..so what do you expect.