As of January 10, 2017, the Asylum Information Database reported that 2,287 asylum
seekers being held in the facility on Kos, and 871 on Leros.90 Notably, the Greek Council for
Refugees acknowledges that detention on both Kos and Leros is “systematically applied… and
subject to inhuman conditions.”91 These conditions remain problematic while assessing the
asylum claims of the individuals housed on the islands.
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Greece: Monitoring Report at Kos and Leros, ASYLUM INFORMATION DATABASE (Jan. 30, 2017),
http://www.asylumineurope.org/news/10-01-2017/greece-monitoring-report-kos-and-leros
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Id. (“On Kos, the Greek Council for Refugees also observed that officials were not always aware that
unaccompanied children were exempt from the exceptional border procedure under the law.”)
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