Moria

Representatives of Human Rights Watch (HRW) slammed Greece and Europe for the conditions prevailing in the migrant camp of Moria in Lesvos. "Moria is a concentration camp", said Emina Cerimovic addressing the Greek Parliament’s subcommittee for the disabled. Following a nine-day...

About 100 migrants from Eritrea and Ethiopia staying in the Moria, Lesvos reception and identification center camp, celebrated New Year 2010 in the early hours of Monday. With traditional music from their homeland, dances and food they prepared themselves, they...

Migrants set fires around the Moria camp on Lesvos and hurled rocks at police in reaction to the deportation of a fellow asylum seeker who is to be deported back to Turkey. According to Lesvosnews.gr, on Tuesday afternoon the migrants...

More than 200 undocumented migrants have landed on the islands of the eastern Aegean from Turkey between Saturday and Monday morning. According to government figures 212 migrants arrived on the islands of Lesvos, Chios and Samos. The new arrivals has brought...

Twelve Syrian refugees living in Moria’s identification center on Lesvos were on a hunger strike for the third day on Sunday, protesting the slow pace of asylum procedures. The men, of Kurdish descent, were sitting outside the asylum services offices,...

The evacuation of the warship Lesvos, which was docked at the port of Mytilene since January 12 hosting 170 migrants from Africa, started earlier on Saturday. 120 migrants have already been transferred to Moria hotspot while the rest of them...

Main opposition New Democracy (ND) leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis called on the government to deal with the repercussions of the refugee issue on the local communities. Mitsotakis on Friday visited the refugee camp of Moria, Mytilene, and he was briefed...

Just a few hours after authorities discovered a 5th person dead, tents at the northern and western side of the refugee camp in Moria, were taken down and tons of piling garbage was removed to make way for housing...

A 20-year old Pakistani was found dead early Monday at Moria hotspot on Lesvos. It is the third incident in Moria in the last ten days. On Saturday a 45-year old man from Syria was found dead outside his...

A 46-year old refugee from Syria was found dead in his tent in the refugee camp of Moria on Lesvos. A few days ago a 22-year old Egyptian was also found dead in his tent in the same camp. A...