38 FRONTIER EUROPE Human rights abuses on Greece’s border with Turkey In the air: the centre of unaccompanied refugee minors in Mytilini, 29 May 2013, available at: http://news.in.gr/greece/article/?aid=1231250667. Also according to the press release of 21 May 2013 issued by the Office of the Greek Ombudsman, interruption in funding for shelters has led to some shelters operating with no personnel but only with the support of volunteers. The Ombudsman gave as an example the case of the Agiassos shelter where at the end of May there was only one employee present (the cook) for sixty unaccompanied minors. See press release available at: http://www.synigoros.gr/resources/docs/375134.pdf. Also see INews Article, The situation in the unaccompanied minors’ shelters is tragic, 10 June 2013, available at: http://www.inews.gr/88/synigoros-tou-paidiou-tragiki-i-katastasi-stis-monades-filoxeniasasynodefton-anilikon-prosfygon.htm. 69 70 Our World: Fleeing Syria at these times, BBC News Channel, 5 June 2013, video available at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22757485. UN General Assembly, Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, François Crépeau: Addendum – Greece, 18 April 2013, Paragraph 45, available at: http://ap.ohchr.org/documents/dpage_e.aspx?si=A/HRC/23/46/Add.4. 71 72 According to the Annex of the letter dated 17 June 2013 from Cecilia Malmstrom, the Commissioner responsible for Home Affairs, €129,699,210 was allocated to Greece under the External Borders Fund and €97,877,298 under the European Return Fund in the period covering 2011-2013. The information was provided to Amnesty International European Institutions Office in response to a query dated 14 May 2013, PACE, Migration and asylum: mounting tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean, 23 January 2013, Paragraph 54, available at: http://assembly.coe.int/ASP/XRef/X2H-DWXSL.asp?fileid=19349&lang=en. 73 74 The European Court of Human Rights judgment M.S.S. v. Belgium and Greece (Application No. 30696/09, 21 January 2011) and the Court of Justice of the European Union judgment in Joined Cases C-411/10 N.S. v Secretary of State for the Home Department and C-493/10 M.E. and Others v Refugee Applications Commissioner, Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform. Amnesty International July 2013 Index: 25/008/2013