(Zaman Al Wasl)- Greek authorities are due to deport a Syrian refugee family to Turkey under the pretext that their hometown in Deir Ezzor province is safe, activists said Saturday.
Mohamed Kazem Hindawi, director of the Arab European Organization for Human Rights, said that the Greek police on Friday had detained Raka’a al-Mulla Al-Sayel’s family, who lived in Vial camp on Chiyos island, with the purpose of transferring them to Turkey, claiming that the medical reports they have submitted to court does not legitimize their right to asylum.
A source revealed that the family of 7 people comes from Deir Ezor countryside that is currently under regime control, and that they have entered Greece on September, 2019.
The family are currently detained in a police station in Chios in inhuman conditions, where they have been beaten, mistreated and humiliated by members of the police in front of other refugees. They are not allowed to communicate with the outside and are treated like criminals.
Nearly half a million people have been killed and millions displaced in Syria's long-running civil war, which erupted in 2011 in the form of anti-government protests amid Arab Spring uprisings and eventually turned into an armed insurgency.
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