I arrived in Athens in April 2008. As soon as I arrived at the airport I was met by two Greek policemen who started insulting me. They asked why I used different names in different countries. I had used my real name in Sweden and Norway where I wanted asylum, but a different name in Germany and Greece. They put my fake name from Germany on a red card that they gave me. They left blank the residence in Greece because I told them I had nowhere to live here. They just gave me the red card, no other papers, nothing, no asylum interview, no interpreter, no lawyer, they just told me to go. I asked where. They said, “Anywhere you want.” I don’t have any appointment for an asylum interview, but the red card runs out in four months [they usually are issued for six months]. If they gave me a work and residence permit I could live here, but I can’t do anything with this card.319 A 21-year-old Iraqi Kurd who had already been deported from Greece to Turkey and from Turkey to northern Iraq where he was tortured upon his return said that he tried to apply for asylum while detained at Samos. Instead of being given a red card, however, he was only given a notice to leave the country in 30 days, which he did by going to Finland. His story continues with the revolving door transfer back to Greece—and still no consideration of his asylum claim: So, I left Greece and went to Finland. This was 2007. I had a fake passport. I asked for asylum there, but they had my fingerprints and told me I had to seek asylum in Greece. I told them that I had tried to seek asylum in Greece, but that the Greek authorities had only given me a paper saying I had to leave the country in 30 days and had not given me any asylum-seeker card. But the Finnish court said I had to go back to Greece. I stayed in jail for two months and four days in Helsinki. The jail was good. The jail in Finland was better than being free here. They have human rights in Finland. I felt like a human being in Finland. I don’t feel like a human being in Greece. 319 Human Rights Watch interview (name withheld, B-2), Athens, May 23, 2008. 117 Human Rights Watch November 2008