Police are failing to protect people during frequent incidents of violence in closed centers on the Greek islands known as “hotspots,” Human Rights Watch said. The centers were established for the reception, identification, and processing of asylum seekers and migrants.
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The European Union outline deal with Turkey announced on March 8, 2016, contradicts EU principles guaranteeing the right to seek asylum and against collective expulsions. “A fundamental contradiction lies at the heart of the EU-Turkey deal taking shape,” said Human Rights Watch.
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Thousands of asylum seekers and migrants are trapped in Greece as a result of the border closures. “it is an unconscionable and short-sighted non-solution that is causing suffering and violence”, says Human Rights Watch.
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Nationality-based restrictions at the border between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia are preventing asylum seekers from reaching countries where they want to lodge protection claims – Human Rights Watch.
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Several European ministers and senior EU officials have been quoted as accusing Greece of not doing its job of policing the European Union’s external borders and stemming the flow of asylum seekers and migrants, also of refusing to accept EU help to do so.
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