told me to write my story in a little box on a piece of paper that was about three inches wide and two inches long. I wrote my claim, about 40 or 50 words, to tell about my problems with security in Baghdad. I spent no more than 10 or 15 minutes with her. She told me to go. She spoke no Arabic. There were also Afghans with me who wanted to talk. But there was no translator for them. After that, they put me in the street. When I left the airport, I had nothing, nowhere to go. I had no address in Greece. When I was in Sweden, the government paid for an apartment. It was not like a jail at all.317 A 30-year-old Sunni former Ba`th party member from Baghdad who fled Iraq in 2006 after the Mahdi Armi kidnapped and beat him [he showed Human Rights Watch significant scars on his back and torso] crossed into Greece on his third attempt in March 2007 and was held at the old detention center at Samos. There he claimed to be an Afghan out of fear that the authorities might return him to Iraq if he said he was an Iraqi. He said that no one at Samos asked him any questions in Pashtu, Farsi, or Arabic to establish his identity, but simply fingerprinted him, took down his name and “Afghan” nationality, and released him after a week with a 30-day notice to leave the country. Twenty days later, he flew to Sweden with a false passport: I applied for asylum in Sweden. They respected me. They listened to me. They heard my story. I was not in detention, but in a refugee hotel. But after five months they found my fingerprints and told me I had to go back to Greece. Several members of my family were living in Sweden and I wanted to stay there, but they were cousins, not close relatives, and they wouldn’t let me stay.318 Rather than be deported to Greece, he fled from Sweden to Norway and applied for asylum there, but his fingerprints caught up with him again. He then fled to Germany, but was caught, put in jail for 65 days, and then was handcuffed and deported to Greece via Hungary. He even asked the Hungarians for asylum during his three-hour stopover, but they told him he had to go to Greece: 317 Human Rights Watch interview (name withheld, B-3), Athens, May 23, 2008. 318 Human Rights Watch interview (name withheld, B-2), Athens, May 23, 2008. Stuck in a Revolving Door 116