“ This extreme level of overcrowding is preceded by
the most important motion of refugees from Turkey to Greece in a really very
long time, numbering almost 5000 people in the month of September.
One case concerns virtually 60 individuals who have been subject to torture, inhuman or degrading treatment by the hands of police and
medical staff following the protests towards the G8 summit
in Genoa in 2001; the other concerns two prisoners who have been placed in solitary confinement and crushed repeatedly
by prison officers. This examine highlights the situation of a largely forgotten population - refugees, asylum seekers and other migrants who're "stuck in transit" in Serbia alongside that eastern pathway.
Refugees and migrants in Greece obtain little or
no medical care for many health issues they face and fewer than half of these pregnant had entry to maternal care, support group Doctors
of the World mentioned on Tuesday. The largest of them are sea operations - "Triton," off the coast of Italy and Malta (with greater than four hundred officers and 14 ships), and
"Poseidon," in Greece and the Aegean Sea (with practically 900 border guards and 14 ships). ”