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Greek detention camps are law-free zones
More than 30 detention camps for immigrants without valid residency permits are to be established in Greece, the parliament decided on Tuesday. The left-liberal online paper To Vima warns of the dangers for the constitutional state: "In contrast to other penal facilities like prisons, which are institutions governed by the rule of law, such camps are law-free zones. … The legal system does not function there; they are governed by the amateur laws of the guards, many of whom are recruited from private security services. And there is also a lack of rules regarding the duration of an immigrant's detention. It can be months or even years. … Such centres are of course a far cry from the Nazi concentration camps. This is not what the politicians who are now setting them up want, and it would not be possible within the democratic framework of Greece and the EU. But the fact that they are de facto law-free zones undermines the law and poisons democracy."
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Trenches against refugees inhumane
Greece plans to put a stop to illegal border crossings by Turkish immigrants over the river Evros by building a 120 km long trench, media reports say. The government which includes politicians who themselves sought asylum abroad during the dictatorship, is returning to the Middle Ages with this 30-metre-wide and 7-metre-deep trench, grumbles the online paper To Vima: "The first thing one would expect from these politicians would be a sensibility towards refugees who come to Greece. But the opposite is the case. Their attitude to the trench ranges from indifference to approval. This counteracts the positive outcome of the new immigration law which went into effect at the start of 2011. ... Instead of turning against those (the Germans above all) who are trying to prevent a revision of the Dublin II Regulation which would mitigate the refugee problem the government is digging trenches against immigrants. Oblivious to the fact they could well also be digging their own grave, and that of the country as a whole."
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