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Greek Court rules detention of unregistered refugees in RIC Malakasa unlawful
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Greek authorities must urgently investigate allegations of ill-treatment at the Corinth detention facility
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'Death is preferable to this': inside Greece's Sintiki migrant detention centre
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'Extreme violence' triggers hunger strike at Greek detention centre
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'It's a monster, this camp': NGOs say new model of refugee centre on Greek island is inhumane
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'Psychological pressure' in Amygdaleza: undignified detention conditions and violation of asylum rights [AR]
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'Psychological pressure' in Amygdaleza: undignified detention conditions and violation of asylum rights [GR]
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'Punishment beatings' used at EU-backed Greek refugee camps and detention centres, alleges NGO
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‘Extraordinary Measures’ How Greece used the COVID-19 pandemic as a Pretext for the Unlawful Detention of Asylum Seekers on Chios
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‘It was hell’: asylum seekers and NGOs allege abuse in Greek detention
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‘It was steer or they would kill me’: why Sudanese war refugees are filling prisons in Greece
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‘Please don’t treat us like prisoners’ – refugees react to walls around Greek camps
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‘Psychological pressure’ in Amygdaleza: undignified detention conditions and violation of asylum rights
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‘Sanctioned Ignorance’ and the detention of people seeking asylum in the EU-funded CCAC on Samos
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‘Still detained and forgotten’ Update on Detention Policies, Practices, and Conditions on Kos 2023/24
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‘Still detained and forgotten’. Update on Detention Policies, Practices, and Conditions on Kos 2022/23
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‘This is a cage for migrants’: the rise of racism and the challenges for social work in the Greek context
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‘We are here to die, or to obtain freedom’: Hunger strike in Moria pre-removal detention centre
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‘You mean the prison?’: displaced people on Samos
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"A Life Without Freedom Is Not A Life". Life in the Closed Controlled Access Centre in Samos
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"Close the camps of death" - protests following the deaths in Amygdaleza and Paranesti. GCR and KEERFA call for the end to the 18 month detention rule (GR)
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"I Came Here for Peace". The Systematic ill-treatment of migrants and refugees by state agents in Patras
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"Mohamed Ashfaq suffered from asthma. He was never taken to a hospital, that's why he died" [GR]
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"They don't care about us": Voices from Kos exposing inhumane migration policies
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“‘A public health bomb’: the migrant accommodation facility in Heraklion" (GR)
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“40 years in the port ... I have not seen such a situation” – Immigration in Crete takes huge dimensions (GR)
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“Neither here, nor there” | Refugees transferred to Corinth transit camp are left in precarious limbo
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“We Closed the Ports to Protect Refugees.” Hygienic Borders and Deterrence Humanitarianism during Covid-19
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[GR/EN] Φωτιά στις Φυλακές: Κέντρα Κράτησης και η βίαιη, ρατσιστική κρατική πρακτική απέναντι στην μετανάστευση | Fire to the Prisons: Detention Centres and the Violent and Racist State-Practice Towards Migration
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#StopTheToxicDeal DETENTION
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5 murders of immigrants in one year [GR]
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8 Persecuted Migrants in Petrou Ralli: CCTV Video vs Cops’ False Accusations
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13 years after M.S.S.: Report on human rights, access to asylum and detention conditions in Greece
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21-year-old dead in Volos prison - Prisoner's stance after incident (GR)
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22-year-old hanged herself in her cell in Korydallos prison (GR)
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23-year-old prisoner found dead in Amygdaleza [GR]
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25-year-old Pakistani found dead at migrant detention centre in Xanthi [GR]
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26-09-2024: Announcement from the Hellenic Police Headquarters on death of Mohammad Kamran [GR]
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29-year-old found hanged in Omonia Police Station (GR)
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31-year-old suicide in Moria [GR]
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A dead and severely beaten immigrant in a Police Station [GR]
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A dead migrant at the AT of Agios Panteleimonas after a brutal UPD beating (GR)
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A detainee in Corinth Pre-Removal Detention Centre describes the dinner he receives
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A detainee in Corinth shows the bottle of shampoo he was provided with (screenshot from a video), May 2026
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A Flaming Howl from Petrou Ralli
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A new fence at the Diavata camp raises questions (GR)
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A Polish man died in the custody of the Vyronas police station [GR]
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A prisoner was found hanged at the Kissamos Prison in Chania [GR]
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A.A. v. Greece
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A.F. v. Greece
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A.Y. v. Greece
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Abuse and Death of Migrant in Agios Panteleimonas Police Station
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Access to a Hot Field: A Self-Reflexive Account of Research in the Moria Camp, Lesvos
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Accessing Human Rights in Immigration Detention in Greece
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Accommodation container without bed frames in Amygdaleza pre-removal detention centre, October 2025
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Accommodation container without door in Amygdaleza pre-removal detention centre, October 2025
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Accommodation container without door, Amygdaleza pre-removal detention centre, October 2025
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Accommodation containers without windows in Amygdaleza pre-removal detention centre, October 2025
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Administrative detention: A human rights “black hole”
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Administrative Detention: Apartheid Prison Systems in Palestine and Greece
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Afghan detainee of Xanthi in protest
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Afghan immigrant Mohammad Hassan lost his battle for life [GR]
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Afghan man found dead at Xanthi Immigration Detention Centre [GR]
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Agios Athanasios Immigration Management Department
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Agios Panteleimonas Police Department
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AL.K. v. Greece
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Alexandroupoli Police Directorate
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Amadou v. Greece
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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC STATEMENT - Greece: Profound concerns over death of Afghan refugee
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Amygdaleza Pre-Removal Detention Centre
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Amygdaleza: Immigrants’ Yell from the Detention Camp (GR)
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Amygdaleza: We will die without water (GR)
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AN AIRPORT ETHNOGRAPHY OF VOLUNTARY DEPORTATIONS : IOM ASSISTED VOLUNTARY RETURNS FROM GREECE
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Announcement for the provision of cleaning services in the building facilities of the Orestiada Police Directorate Services [GR]
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Announcement from the SYRIZA Rights Department on the death of 23-year-old immigrant Sayed Mehdi Akhbari [GR]
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Announcement of an open international tender for the provision of cleaning services in the building facilities of the Orestiada Police Directorate for one year (2024) with the possibility of extension for an additional year (2025) [GR]
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Announcement of an open tender for the selection of a construction contractor for the project – Upgrading, repair and maintenance of accommodation areas for foreigners at the Border Guard Departments of Tycheros, Soufli and Kyprinos [GR]
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ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE IMMIGRANTS HUNGER STRIKERS IN PARANESTI CAMP, DRAMA
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ANNUAL REPORT 2025 – Recording of phenomena, issues and incidents of racism, discrimination, xenophobia as well as Research Studies or Good Administration Practices in the 6 critical areas of Employment, Legislation, Education, Housing, Racist Violence and Health & Welfare [GR]
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Another death in prison – Outrage in Kos detention centre after medical attention withheld
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Another death of a detainee at the Amygdaleza detention center, after 25 months of illegal detention under deplorable conditions. Responsibilities of the Ministry of Public Order and Citizen Protection for inhumane treatment [GR]
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Another immigrant dead in the Amygdaleza inferno [GR]
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Answers sought for the death of an Egyptian man in the Paranesti Detention Center in Drama (GR)
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Appalling conditions and business with refugees in Chania [GR]
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Approval of an expenditure of fifty thousand six hundred ninety-three euros and thirty-two cents (€50,693.32), for the catering of detainees of the Orestiada Border Guard Department, the Didymoteicho Border Guard Department, the Metaxades Border Guard Department and the Kyprinos Border Guard Department, who violated the Legislation on Foreigners and Asylum, December 2014 [GR]
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Approval of an expenditure of one thousand five hundred twenty-six euros and twenty cents (€1,526.20), for the catering of detainees of the Orestiada Border Guard Department, the Didymoteicho Border Guard Department and the Metaxades Border Guard Department, who violated the Legislation on Foreigners and Asylum, for the month of February 2024 [GR]
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Approval of an expenditure of one thousand one hundred seventy-nine euros and eighty-seven cents (€1,179.87), for the catering of detainees of the Orestiada Border Guard Department, the Didymoteicho Border Guard Department and the Metaxades Border Guard Department, who violated the Legislation on Foreigners and Asylum, February 2021 [GR]
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Approval of an expenditure of two hundred and seventy euros and two cents (€270.02), for the catering of detainees, of the Orestiada Police Department, the Orestiada Border Guard Department and the Metaxades Border Guard Department, both Greek and foreigners residing legally in the country, for the month of January 2025 [GR]
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Approval of an expenditure of two thousand four hundred six euros and seventy cents (€2,406.70), for the catering of detainees, of the Orestiada Border Guard Department, the Didymoteicho Border Guard Department and the Kyprinos Border Guard Department, who violated the Legislation on Foreigners and Asylum, for the month of December 2024 [GR]
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Approval of an expenditure of two thousand one hundred sixty euros and sixteen cents (€2,160.16), for the catering of detainees, of the Orestiada Border Guard Department, the Didymoteicho Border Guard Department and the Kyprinos Border Guard Department, who violated the Legislation on Foreigners and Asylum, for the month of April 2026 [GR]
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Approval of an expenditure of two thousand three hundred and one euro and four cents (€2,301.04), for the catering of detainees of the Orestiada Border Guard Department and the Didymoteicho Border Guard Department, who violated the Legislation on Foreigners and Asylum, for the month of October 2024 [GR]
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Approval of expenditure of three thousand five hundred sixteen euros and thirteen cents (€3,516.13), for the catering of detainees of the Orestiada Border Guard Department, the Didymoteicho Border Guard Department, the Metaxades Border Guard Department and the Didymoteicho Police Department, who violated the Legislation on Foreigners and Asylum, for the month of December 2020 [GR]
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Approval of expenditure of three thousand two hundred fifty-seven euros and eighty-five cents (3257.85€), for the catering of detainees of the Orestiada Border Guard Department, the Didymoteicho Border Guard Department and the Metaxades Border Guard Department, who violated the Legislation on Foreigners and Asylum, for the month of September 2023 [GR]
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ARABIC The Drowning Voice: Stories of migrant women from Greek Aliens’ Detention Centres
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Arbitrary Detention on Arrival – A Critique of Migrant Incarceration on Lesvos Island
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Argos Police Department
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Arrest of 5 police officers for abusing a prisoner
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As Boats Sail from Libya, Greece Swings Right on Migration
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Aspropyrgos Special Holding Facility for Migrants
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Assessing the Cost-effectiveness of Irregular Migration Control Policies in Greece
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Asylum riot at migrant facility in Serres
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Asylum Seekers in Samos: An Unreasonable Reality
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Asylum Surveillance Systems Launched in Greece without Data Safeguards
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At the Amygdaleza Prison Camp
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At the former Cold Storage in the port of Heraklion are the migrants who were found in Kalo Limenes (GR)
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At the old Port Authority building in Rethymno are the 37 Egyptian migrants who were transferred to Agia Galini (GR)
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Athens International Airport special holding facility
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Attica General Police Directorate (GADA)
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Attitudes And Perceptions of The Local Community About the Paranesti Immigration Detention Center (Στασεις και Αντιληψεις Τοπικης Κοινωνιας για το Κεντρο Κρατησης Μεταναστων Παρανεστιου)
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Avlona Special Juvenile Detention Centre
Detention centre
B.M. v. Greece
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Bar Association: The detention centres in Chania are underground "human warehouses" [GR]
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Beyond walls and fences: EU funding used for a complex and digitalised border surveillance system
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Bitter Memories Of Moria Camp Arrests: Report On Arrests Of Rejected Asylum Seekers At Lesvos Asylum Office
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Border Crimes: The Case of Lesvos
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Border Crossings and Gender in the Greek Detention System
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Border Guards of Evros: Virtual Reality by the Grace of ... Commission!
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Borderlines of Despair: First-line reception of asylum seekers at the Greek borders
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Borders within borders
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Borders within Borders
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Boys’ Drawings Expose Greece’s Broken Detention System
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Breakfast provided to detainees in Corinth Pre-Removal Detention Centre, December 2025
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Brutal repression of detained refugees in Corinth (GR)
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Carceral moderation and the Janus face of international pressure: A long view of Greece’s engagement with the European Convention of Human Rights
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Cells and bathrooms, Corinth Pre-Removal Detention Centre
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Cells and improvised tea maker, Corinth Pre-Removal Detention Centre
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Cells and narration from detainee, Corinth Pre-Removal Detention Centre
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Cells, Corinth Pre-Removal Detention Centre
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Chalandri Police Department
Detention centre
Chania | Migrant Hangout: Appalling treatment of refugees and migrants by the authorities [GR]
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Chania | The 318 migrants found on Gavdos are at the Agia exhibition center | Photos [GR]
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Chania Police Department
Detention centre
Chania: Detainee found dead in police station detention centre [GR]
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Chios Closed Control Access Centre
Detention centre
Closed centres for refugees on Greek islands exacerbate psychological trauma
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Closed. Confining. Torturing? The Construction of Torturing Environments in Samos’ Hotspot Camps
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Cloudy water, Amygdaleza pre-removal detention centres, October 2025
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Cockroach infestation in accommodation container, Amygdaleza pre-removal detention centre, October 2025
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Coerced into Subsistence: Deprivation of Liberty in the EU Reception and Identification Centres in Greece
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Collective amnesia in Amygdaleza
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Complaint / Immigrant died helplessly in a detention centre in Kos [GR]
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Concentration camps, Corinth and an article that shouldn't exist [GR]
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Conditions in administrative detention and access to asylum
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Conducting a direct award tender process, with the lowest price award criterion, for the supply of electrical equipment for the needs of the Border Guard Departments of Orestiada, Didymoteicho, and Metaxades of the Orestiada Police Directorate [GR]
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Confine to Protect: Greek Hotspots and the Hygienic-Sanitary Borders of Covid-19
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Confronting the mental health emergency on Samos and Lesvos. Why the containment of asylum seekers on the Greek islands must end
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Containers bringing rain to Amygdaleza [GR]
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Continuation of detention despite the glaring deficiencies in healthcare inside PRDCs in the midst of a pandemic
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Contract for the development of the surrounding area at the First Management Center for Illegal Immigrants, construction of a sealed sewage tank, two outdoor toilets and two showers, for the service of illegal immigrants, at the first management center for illegal immigrants of the Feres Border Guard Department in Poros, Evros, as well as the creation of accommodation spaces for the Operational Office of the Alexandroupoli Police Directorate [GR]
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Corinth Pre-Removal Detention Centre
Detention centre
Corinth: Refugees denounce shameful conditions of abandonment - The videos of despair [GR]
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Corinth: Suicide attempt at the Aliens Detention Centre [GR]
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Corridor in accommodation area of Corinth Pre-Removal Detention Centre, December 2025
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Corridors, Cells and Bathroom in Corinth Pre-Removal Detention Centre
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Covid-19 and detention
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Crete – Gavdos: 7,336 refugee arrivals in the first half of 2025, lack of management plan
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Crete – Gavdos: Sixfold increase in refugee arrivals in 2024 – Lack of organised first reception and accommodation infrastructure
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Crete: ‘The situation is unmanageable’ with the arrivals of migrants (GR)
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Crete: Overcrowding at migrant centers – Port authority officers warn of ‘dangerous conditions.’(GR)
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