Rights of the child violated in the Evros region.Every day in the Evros region at the Greek-Turkish Border, tens of children are locked up simply because they do not hold the right documentation. Many of these children are unaccompanied minors.
Immigration detention has a devastating effect on children’s physical, emotional and psychological development and must be stopped. The Greek Council for Refugees (GCR) has release a report about the Special Holding Facility for Illegal Migrants “Fylakio” in the border area. Twelve months of monitoring show that the conditions are dire and Greece as a country needs to rethink the way it treats migrant children.