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A Greek appeals court has sentenced two asylum seekers from Afghanistan to four years in prison for starting a fire which burned down the Moria camp on the Greek island of Lesbos in 2020. Thousands of migrants were living at the facility at that time, with COVID-19 and unhygienic conditions dictating their daily lives. ....
InfoMigrants By Marion MacGregor Published on : 2021/06/09 New concrete walls are being built around migrant camps in mainland Greece. The project is part of a government plan to modernize facilities, but there is strong opposition to the changes. 16-year-old Parwana Amiri fled Afghanistan and arrived on the Greek island of Lesbos in September 2019. Today she lives in the Ritsona migrant camp near Athens. Until a few weeks ago, she had no idea that she was soon to be cut off from the world by a three-meter-high concrete perimeter wall. I woke up as usual and got ready to go to my class, says a May 4 entry on Amiri s blog post, Letters from Ritsona . As I walked along, I noticed some bulldozers and many workers working by the back gate, constructing something… They told me that they were going to build a wall all around the camp. ....
InfoMigrants By Marion MacGregor Published on : 2021/03/16 The asylum hotspot system established under the EU-Turkey deal five years ago has failed, according to a German think tank. In a new report, it warns that the EU must not repeat the mistakes of the Greek islands. New criticism has emerged of the hotspot approach developed by the European Union to deal with the large number of asylum seekers arriving on European Shores. In a paper published Tuesday (March16) by the Expert Council on Integration and Migration, a think tank in Germany, researcher Karoline Popp says the system has largely been a failure because it still does not provide a mechanism to relieve pressure on the hotspot locations. ....
InfoMigrants By InfoMigrants Published on : 2021/03/05 Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has announced that the destroyed Moria migrant camp on Lesbos will not be rebuilt. A new structure elsewhere on the island will reportedly replace the temporary Kara Tepe camp. In a meeting with the mayors of the Greek islands hosting refugees, Mitsotakis said that a park is to be built on the site of the former Moria migrant camp on the island of Lesbos, German news agency dpa reported Thursday. The notorious Moria camp, which hosted around 12,500 refugees and migrants at the time, burned down last September after residents of the camp allegedly set fire there. ....