People Seeking Protection End up Behind Bars: No Access to Asylum in Attica
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"We escaped from Afghanistan to save our lives. We changed five countries to get to a safe place, and we ended up in prison."
The complaints of the organization "Refugee Support in the Aegean - RSA", regarding refugees seeking asylum and the information on access to Attica.
The organization “Refugee Support in the Aegean” (RSA) denounces that refugees and asylum seekers who appear before the authorities to request asylum are arrested and prosecuted for offenses of “illegal stay”, in gross violation of elementary legal rules. Attica, as noted, is without access to asylum. RSA publishes two characteristic cases, emphasizing that “in no way do they constitute isolated incidents”. Read here ⇛
People seeking protection end up behind bars: No access to asylum in Attica
Refugees who approach the Greek authorities to seek asylum end up arrested and criminally prosecuted. People are indiscriminately prosecuted for “illegal stay” offences in flagrant breach of basic legal standards. Instead of receiving protection from the state, they end up detained in prisons and police stations. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Migration and Asylum online platform for asylum registration appointments has been out of operation since 1…
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