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GREECE: Syrian refugee’s wait for asylum in Greece is ‘like death’

14 September 2016

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"Life in Greece has become so difficult for Amir and Walaa, teachers from Syria, that they sometimes think about returning to the home they risked everything to flee.

"I know in Syria we have war and bombs every day," says Amir, visibly exhausted. But there, "every Syrian dies once. Here we die every day. Every day is bad."

For the past six months, home is a bleak tent on the Aegean island of Chios, pitched in a dusty medieval castle moat, where they wait without work or money for a verdict on their asylum claims."

See: Syrian refugee’s wait for asylum in Greece is ‘like death’ (Business Insider, link)

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