After [one month in the Lavrios camp], they brought me to Athens and put
me in a hotel for two months. They then said I couldn’t stay there any
longer. I am now homeless. I don’t have a toilet. Nothing. I live on the
street. I only have peripheral vision. I am blind straight ahead. I go every
three days to get dialysis to clean out my blood. But I don’t speak English
or Greek. I don’t understand anything. I don’t understand the medicine,
how many tablets I am supposed to take.323
The authorities rejected his asylum claim in January 2008 and his case was under
appeal at the time of our interview. He went to a social service agency for help. “The
interpreter there told me I was unlucky,” he said, “He told me that I would die on the
street.”324
323
Human Rights Watch interview (name withheld, B-16), Athens, May 27, 2008. Ibid
324
Human Rights Watch interview (name withheld, B-16), Athens, May 27, 2008.
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