Migrants face 'living hell' in Greek detention
Migrants and asylum-seekers detained in Greece are being forced to endure deplorable conditions, often with devastating effects on their health, according to a report from aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).
Doctors who have attended internment camps, police stations and coastguard facilities around the country described "a living hell" for thousands of immigrants denied fresh air, natural light and basic sanitation.
In one detention camp in Komotini, not far from the Turkish border, medics saw human excrement seeping through cracked pipes between the building's floors.
"I did not think that such conditions were possible on European soil," said Marietta Provopoulou, who spent more than a decade working in Africa before returning to Athens to head MSF in Greece. "The main complaint of migrants is that they are not being treated like human beings, that they are being subjected to a living hell," she told the Guardian. "And they are right."
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/01/migrants-living-hell-greek-detention-medecins-sans-frontieres-scabies-tb