Greek police are forcefully expelling asylum seekers from Greece into Turkey and are using coronavirus pandemic as a cover for their abuses – Wall Street Journal
A view of the tents of asylum seekers near the border between the Kastanies and the Pazarkule border gates, as they continue to wait in hopes that Greece will open the gates on March 14, 2020 in Turkey's northwestern Edirne province.
Greek police are forcefully expelling asylum seekers into Turkey and are using the coronavirus pandemic as a cover for their abuses, according to a report published by theThe report, based on evidence from asylum seekers who faced violence as well as lawyers and human-rights activists, said "at least 250 asylum seekers have been forcibly expelled from Greece since late March.
While Greek authorities have denied reports of extrajudicial deportations, they failed to respond to theDimitris Koros, a lawyer with the Greek Council for Refugees, defined the Greek treatment against the asylum seekers as an "illegal pushback" and not "a deportation.
Underscoring that the "Greek police are targeting migrants and refugees who haven’t officially filed an asylum claim," Koros said even without the official file, the Greek law allows the asylum seekers to stay in the country for 30 days if they express an intention to apply for asylum and cannot be deported without due process.
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