Greece extends quarantine for migrants until July 5

Despite easing some coronavirus-related restrictions, Greek migration authorities have extended lockdown for more than 120,000...
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Greece: Major drop in migrant arrivals compared to April and May 2019

New migrant arrivals to the Greek islands have decreased sharply in April and May compared to the same period of last year, the...
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Greece urged to release migrants children from “dirty, crowded cells” by human rights organisation

The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged the Greek authorities to free the 276 unaccompanied migrant children currently detained in...
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Greece rejected half of all asylum applications in the last two months

Greek authorities have rejected 11,000 asylum applications (48.2 per cent of the total) in the last two months of March and...
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Two more coronavirus cases confirmed in Lesbos migrant camp

Another two asylum seekers on Greece’s Lesbos island have tested positive for the coronavirus, doubling the total number of cases ...
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Coronavirus storms migrants’ hostel in Greece: 150 cases found

Around 150 migrants in a quarantined hostel southwest of Athens, Greece, tested positive for coronavirus, according to an...
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Death of Iraqi migrant sparks unrest in a Greek camp

Protestors set fire to part of Vial camp on the Greek island of Chios after a 47-year-old Iraqi asylum seeker died. She had been...
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Greece: Another camp quarantined after migrant tests positive for coronavirus

Greek authorities have placed another migrant camp on its mainland in “full sanitary isolation” after a 53-year-old Afghan mig...
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Another 604 migrants sent to Greek mainland ahead of deportation

Another 604 migrants were transferred from the Greek islands of Samos, Chios and Lesvos to closed facilities on the mainland on...
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