According to According to the testimonies of at least four refugees, their protests are mostly dealt with repression, while there are reports on use of police violence in these situations. During the December visit, TNH counted more than 300 people living in these conditions outside the main camp.“As a father, I’m suffering a lot because I can’t even give my children the very basic things that they need,” said Haider al-Husseni, a 40-year-old Iraqi. On Lesvos, there are more than 80 organisations working with refugees, according to a spreadsheet posted on the Facebook page for volunteers.In October, the Greek government announced plans to move at least 20,000 people from the camps to the mainland by the beginning of 2020. Jalal al-Hausi, a camp resident from Iran, said he had been beaten by police for building his tent in the wrong place. Between January and August 2019, 25,590 people arrived by sea on the Greek islands, Arrivals have increased as conditions for refugees in Turkey, and a change in attitude towards those from Syria in particular, have led to more people leaving the country. Details on how this will be achieved, however, are still unclear.
Temperatures soared into the 30s when I was on Samos and staff from the NGO Médecins Sans Frontières told me of their concerns about dehydration. All the latest breaking news on Kos. The … Many try to shut the holes in the abandoned buildings to deter serpents from entering and to protect themselves from the cold. They are stressing over the upcoming winter and their safety, as many of them are living in makeshift shelters, without any updates on their housing and the end of their entrapment.RSA and PROASYL are, once more, urging the Greek Authorities to end the toxic EU – Turkey Deal; to take emergency measures in order to address the crisis in reception conditions; and to grant asylum-seekers with safe and dignified conditions, as prescribed by the International and European Law.
According to UNHCR, a recent transfer of refugees from Kos to the mainland took place on 6 October and concerned 16 individuals. Most arrive on small boats directly from Turkey, but some have been transferred to ease congestion on other islands.
A 45-minute drive away at the Pyli detention centre, 3,745 asylum seekers are spilling out of a space designed for 816, according to data from the Greek Ministry for Citizen Protection.“We feel like ghosts here; no one sees us,” said Aymen Alkhawlani, a 28-year-old Yemeni, as he peered through the barbed wire that surrounds the camp. “After 11pm, when the official camp is locked, they can’t use the toilet so they have to go on the hill,” explained Alkhawlani, who said he sleeps in a hut with 14 other people. More than 4,100 migrants and asylum seekers reside on Kos – the largest numbers are from Syria and Palestine, according to data provided to The New Humanitarian by UNHCR. “We are not optimistic about our future,” he said. An abandoned crumbling outhouse, without any windows or capacity for natural light except through the cracks in the ceiling, has become a living space for about 100 people in Pyli. In Kos, there is free legal aid by four lawyers in total (a Registry lawyer, Metadrasi, Greek Refugee Council, Arsis), while there is great lack of interpreters both in the hotspot and the local hospital.In total, 108 children attend the Centre of non-typical education (KEDU) of Arsis Organization near the hotspot, funded by UNHCR. The mayor and residents of Kos prevented the disembarkation of some 75 migrants and refugees coming from Kastelorizo on a passenger ship early on Saturday.. In early September, Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Officials from Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s New Democracy party, who formed the new Greek government in July, have spoken about their intentions to avoid a situation like 2015, when more than 850,000 people entered the asylum process in Europe by travelling through Greece. The RIC was already bursting at the seams, with estimates for the total population at more than 5,500. Next to it is a grove people use as a space to wash and, sometimes, as a toilet. On Worries about food and water led to the opening of a new NGO on Samos in August, As autumn turns to winter, the islands face another crisis. They are putting Since New Democracy came to power in July, the government’s rhetoric towards refugees has become harsher. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.Strictly Necessary Cookie should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings.If you disable this cookie, we will not be able to save your preferences.
“Not having a Social Security Number makes things even worse for those in need of medication, as they have to pay the entire price to buy it. (Katy Fallon/TNH) I would prefer to die in Syria than be here.”Cheshirkov noted that 2,400 people had arrived on Kos since August 2019, compared to just 259 who had been transferred to the mainland.
More people also need to be transferred off the islands – not into equally overcrowded camps in mainland Greece, but into sustainable housing solutions across Europe. The amount of 90 EURO that they receive as asylum-seekers from the cash program (cash card), especially when they have a health issue, is not enough. We ran away from there to find a safe country, but instead we found ourselves here,” he said.
So don,t judge them, answer the question if you know the answer.I agree, these are legitimate concerns, even if they are based on overzealous sensationalist reporting by our gutter press.If you see the same question coming up and up again, even 3 years after a situation that was far more an issue for the locals than the tourist, I can understand some comments.I was there in 2015 and have been there again later and both times there was no problem for tourists. “Most of the tents collapsed and they had to rebuild them again after the rain.”When TNH visited in December, camp residents expressed surprise at seeing a journalist.