In an open letter, nineteen aid organisations and human rights groups have called on Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to end the “containment policy” which traps asylum seekers on the islands and “to immediately transfer asylum seekers to the mainland and meet their protection needs.”
The groups include ActionAid, Amnesty International, Care, Danish Refugee Council, Human Rights Watch, International Rescue Committee, Jesuit Refugee Council, Norwegian Refugee Council, Oxfam and Greek refugee councils and organisations.
A Greek newspaper article documents a “spike” in migrant arrivals in Greece.
“In the last week, 1,194 people arrived on Greece’s Aegean islands from the coast of Turkey, adding to the thousands of asylum seekers who have been trapped at camps for months and showing increasing signs of frustration, with protests and scuffles becoming all the more frequent.”
To see the full article from Focus on Refugees please click here