detained non-Iraqis did not reflect on their credibility about conditions of detention, treatment at the border, and access to asylum. We also interviewed police chiefs and detention center guards in both Greece and Turkey, as well as Coast Guard personnel in Greece. In both Greece and Turkey, we interviewed UNHCR, lawyers, service providers, and other experts. This report pays relatively little attention to the situation of unaccompanied children in Greece because Human Rights Watch is issuing a separate, complementary report on the treatment of unaccompanied children in Greece. Left to Survive: Protection Breakdown for Unaccompanied Children in Greece was researched at the same time as this report and will be published soon after this report’s release. We note that Greece adopted two new refugee laws in July 2008, Presidential Decrees 90/2008 and 96/2008, after we had completed our field research but before publication of the report. Although the two laws were officially applicable retroactively, in real time officials were unaware of the applicability of laws that had not yet been passed. In some cases, this created a discrepancy between what officials, experts, and asylum seekers told us about how the asylum system functions (for example, with respect to length of time of detention and deadlines for filing appeals) and how it should now be operating. We have tried to note such discrepancies in footnotes. Finally, we promised to protect the anonymity of the migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees we interviewed. In most cases they gave us their names and other identifying details that will remain confidential. The notation used in this report uses a letter and a number for each interview; the letter indicates the person who conducted the interview and the number refers to the person being interviewed. All interviews are on file with Human Rights Watch. Stuck in a Revolving Door 18