Syrian immigrants
Crime
Greek Police Chief Accused by Amnesty International of Racist Comments
Amnesty International has called on the Greek government to investigate allegations that the Greek Chief of Police advised officers that undocumented immigrants should be detained for as long as possible, and their “lives made unbearable.” This was part of a related...
Greece
Syrian Immigrants Swim to Kastelorizo
Syrian refugees, driven out of their country by war, are trying to cross the Turkish-Greek border to seek asylum in the European Union. Greece is suffering from the financial crisis and cannot accept this number of people, therefore the...
Greece
Four Dead Immigrants Washed Ashore on Kos
The dead bodies of four immigrants, a man, two women and a 10-year-old girl, were found on a coast on the Greek island of Kos. It is assumed that they are Syrian immigrants, who were aboard the boat that...