Amnesty links wildfires and lack of legal migration routes to deaths of 19 people believed to be asylum seekers
. Their arrival on EU soil had been “systematically” met with “forced returns at the border, denial of the right to seek asylum and violence”, it added.appear to be victims of two great injustices of our times,” said Adriana Tidona, a migration researcher with the organisation.
The presence of hundreds of asylum seekers in the fire-ravaged area was flagged this week by Alarm Phone. “We are in contact with 2 groups of around 250 people in total who are stranded on different islets of the Evros River,” the NGO wrote onPleas for help had gone unanswered by authorities for days,As the wall of flames advanced through the forests, people had been left grappling with an impossible dilemma, said Vassilis Kerasiotis, the director of the NGO HIAS Greece.
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