a deserted house with no electricity or water. To shave or bathe I have to go to a friend’s house.297 Disabled Iraqi Red-Card Holders Particularly vulnerable Iraqi red-card holders, such as people with disabilities and the mentally ill, told Human Rights Watch that they received no assistance. A disabled 47year-old red-card holder from Baghdad who has been living in Greece since 1996 and has not gone before the Appeals Committee in 13 years of being an asylum seeker or received any government assistance for his disability, said that he came for a better life for his three children, but that they have no future in Greece: The problem is that they didn’t finish school here. We got no help from the government. My oldest child stopped going to school at age nine and started working. I can’t work. [His fingers are cut off.] We left the jail of Iraq and came to another jail in Greece.298 Human Rights Watch interviewed a middle-aged Iraqi man who appeared to suffer from depression and other mental illnesses. He was deported from Sweden, but his wife and children are still living there. He said, “They had my fingerprints.”299 As he spoke he had an empty bottle of the anti-psychotic drug, Tegretol, in his hand: “I am sick. I have emphysema. I don’t have any money to buy medicine. I fall down in the street. I sleep in the park. I have a red card, but they don’t give me medicine. I live in the street. I have no money, no food.”300 Recognized Iraqi Refugees Living in Greece Only a small number of Iraqis have been recognized as refugees in Greece because all Iraqi asylum appeals were frozen in 2003 and not unfrozen until mid-2007 and even then only a relatively few cases have been processed (107 Iraqis were granted asylum on appeal in 2007).301 297 Human Rights Watch interview (name withheld, B-19), Athens, May 27, 2008. 298 Human Rights Watch interview (name withheld, B-57), Athens, June 4, 2008. 299 Human Rights Watch interview (name withheld, B-69), Athens, June 4, 2008. 300 Human Rights Watch interview (name withheld, B-69), Athens, June 4, 2008. 301 Human Rights Watch interview with Tsarbopoulos and Stefanaki, UNHCR-Athens, May 22, 2008. Stuck in a Revolving Door 110