No Refuge: Migrants in Greece

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Burned trees remain standing after police destroyed a makeshift migrant camp in Patras, Greece, on July 12, 2009. The camp housed more than 1500 migrants and asylum seekers, many of them unaccompanied children. © 2009 Moises Saman/Magnum for Human Rights Watch 71771
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Undocumented migrants are held in a detention center in Mitilini, Lesvos Island. © 2009 Moises Saman/Magnum for Human Rights Watch 71771
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Hundreds of asylum seekers wait all night to apply for asylum at the Petrou Ralli police station in Athens. © 2009 Moises Saman 71771
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Hundreds of asylum seekers wait all night to apply for asylum at the Petrou Ralli police station in Athens. © 2009 Moises Saman/Magnum for Human Rights Watch 71771
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Unaccompanied Afghan children sleep in a forest on the outskirts of Patras. © 2009 Moises Saman/Magnum for Human Rights Watch 71771
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Unaccompanied Afghan children sleep in a forest on the outskirts of Patras. © 2009 Moises Saman/Magnum for Human Rights Watch 71771
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Unaccompanied Afghan children released from detention wave toward fellow migrants held at a detention center in Mitilini, Lesvos Island. © 2009 Moises Saman/Magnum for Human Rights Watch 71771
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Work clothes are piled up in a room of an abandoned hospital in a town near Athens. About 100 undocumented Afghans, including unaccompanied children, live here in deplorable conditions. © 2009 Moises Saman/Magnum for Human Rights Watch 71771
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Afghan migrants, including unaccompanied children, live in an abandoned hospital in a town near Athens. The building lacks electricity and running water. © 2009 Moises Saman/Magnum for Human Rights Watch 71771
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An unaccompanied Afghan child waits to board a ferry after being released from a detention center in Mitilini, Lesvos Island. © 2009 Moises Saman/Magnum for Human Rights Watch 71771
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Newly released from a detention facility in Mitilini, Lesvos Island, an unaccompanied Afghan child stands on the deck of a ferry sailing to the city of Thessaloniki, northern Greece. © 2009 Moises Saman/Magnum for Human Rights Watch 71771
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Newly arrived migrants and asylum seekers, many from Somalia, Afghanistan, and Iraq, are detained in the port of Mitilini after being intercepted by the Greek Coast Guard. © 2009 Moises Saman/Magnum for Human Rights Watch 71771
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Newly arrived migrants and asylum seekers are detained in the port of Mitilini after being intercepted by the Greek Coast Guard. © 2009 Moises Saman/Magnum for Human Rights Watch 71771
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Young migrants are detained in the port of Mitilini in Greece after being intercepted by the Greek Coast Guard. © 2009 Moises Saman/Magnum for Human Rights Watch 71771
In a large-scale crackdown between June and August 2009, the Greek authorities arrested hundreds of migrants across the country, evicting them from run-down dwellings in Athens, bulldozing a makeshift camp in Patras, and detaining new arrivals on the islands. Many are unaccompanied children.
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