The departures of asylum seekers and migrants from Greece
A group of 139 asylum seekers left the Greek islands on Wednesday in order to be transferred to
The number of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers hosted on the Greek islands fell by 29.6 percent in July in comparison with January 1,
Roughly 380 asylum seekers that arrived on the mainland from the island of Samos and were scheduled to stay at hotels in the northern Greek town of Vrasna will now be sent to the island of Evia instead, to be hosted in bungalows by the sea, authorities announced on Wednesday.
Another 107 asylum seekers left the Moria reception and identification centre on the island of Lesvos late on Thursday.
The first 100 out of a total of 2,000 asylum seekers scheduled to leave the Moria refugee and migrant camp by the end of September left the island of Lesvos on Friday, on a ferry boat bound for Kavala.
(Istanbul, May 10, 2016) – Turkish border guards are shooting and beating Syrian asylum seekers trying to reach Turkey, resulting in deaths and serious injuries, Human Rights Watch said today. The Turkish authorities should stop pushing Syrian asylum seekers back at the border and should investigate all use of excessive force by border guards.
BERLIN (ANA-MPA/ F. Karaviti) – German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told a German paper that Greece has ignored for years the rules of the Dublin Regulation which oblige migrants to file for asylum in the first country of the European Union they arrive in.