Greece agreed to accommodate 50,000 asylum seekers, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said

Greece agreed to accommodate 50,000 asylum seekers but not in a single refugee camp as originally proposed by the European Union, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said.
The decision was taken after an emergency mini-summit on the migrant crisis in Brussels on Sunday. Greece had to reject three proposals by European partners before the decision was taken.
Specifically, the EU had proposed the creation of a refugee city with a 50,000 capacity. The second proposal was that a EU country to have the right to bar entry to refugees from another EU member state.  The third was the establishment of a new operation by EU border police Frontex in northern Greece to check migratory flows towards the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM).
The Greek prime minister spoke after the summit and expressed his satisfaction that none of the three proposals was accepted by Athens. Instead of having a “ghetto” of 50,000 people, as Tsipras said, 30,000 of the refugees will be accommodated in various hospitality camps around Greece, with 7,000 in the islands and 23,000 in the mainland. The remaining 20,000 will be given rent subsidies by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. This way they will be integrated in Greek society, the prime minister said.
On the second proposal, Greece’s counter-proposal was that the EU notifies the country of passage on the number of refugees it is responsible to take.
On the third proposal, Tsipras said that the guarding of borders is exclusively the responsibility of a nation; the only contribution Frontex could provide, he said, would be to register or identify those refugees who had not been processed at points of entry on the Greek islands. He estimated that these cases would be very few, since most refugees on islands request registration.
The European Commission said in an official statement, “We welcome the intention of Greece to increase the reception capacity to 50,000 places, with the support of UNHCR, before the end of the year.”
The EU would provide funding to both Greece and the UNHCR to aid with the resettlement process. Frontex would help Greece with registration, they said, while calling for an upgrade to the joint operation system Poseidon to include Frontex at the Aegean Sea. The leaders also promoted the immediate creation of bilateral confidence-building measures between Greece and FYROM, where the UNHCR should also help with more staff, while they called on Greece, FYROM and Albania to strengthen their management of external land borders.
The Greek prime minister also spoke of the role of Turkey in terms of refugee flows, saying that collaboration with the neighboring country would help reduce the flows. Greek and Turkish port authorities and coast guards should work closely together, although each country is responsible for guarding its own territorial waters. The EC will present specific proposals to Turkey soon, Tsipras said, which creates the hope for a decisive resolution of refugee flows.

The European Union says it will set up 100,000 places in reception centers in Greece for Migrants

The European Union — in an effort to ease the burden on Greece and eastern European countries caused by the influx of migrants –says it will set up 100,000 places in reception centers in Greece and along the migrants’ route through the Balkans.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said early Monday after an emergency summit Sunday in Brussels with several leaders of EU nations, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the leaders of non-EU eastern European countries, that 50,000 places would be created in Greece and another 50,000 throughout the Balkans.
Juncker said the reception places will be vital in providing shelter, registering the migrants and helping better manage the flow of the migrants.
“This is one of the greatest litmus tests Europe has ever faced,” Merkel said Monday about the continent’s migrant crisis, which some see as a border security problem and others view as a humanitarian challenge.
Juncker issued a statement Monday with nearly 20 proposals, including a plan for the speedy exchange of information to coordinate efforts on processing the migrants through the various countries.
The mini gathering of central and eastern European leaders Sunday was sought by Chancellor Merkel, who has voiced concern for migrants as winter sets in.
The meeting was the latest in a series of top-level EU meetings to find a unified approach on how to best deal with the thousands of migrants streaming into the EU every day.
On Sunday, Croatia Interior Ministry spokesman Domagoj Dzigulovic said a record 11,500 migrants entered the country Saturday — the most in a single day since the flow of migrants began in mid-September. Police said the country has seen nearly 250,000 enter the country since then.
Migrants turned to Croatia after Hungary erected a barbed-wire fence along its border with Serbia.
Countries called to meet
European Commission President Juncker called leaders of Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, FYROM, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia, plus refugee organizations involved, to attend the meeting in Brussels.
“Every day counts,” Juncker said Sunday in an interview in German weekly newspaper Bild am Sonntag. “Otherwise we will soon see families in cold rivers in the Balkans perish miserably.”
Some EU lawmakers have complained that all states should attend the meeting and that France’s absence in particular could limit progress on a plan.
More than 680,000 migrants and refugees have crossed to Europe by sea so far this year, fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East, Africa and Asia, according to the International Organization for Migration.
“The challenge now is to slow down the flow of migration and to bring our external borders under control,” Juncker told Bild. “We must also make it clear that people who arrive at our borders who are not looking for international protection have no right to enter the EU.”
Some criticism
Bulgaria, Serbia and Romania said they would close their borders if Germany or other countries shut the door on refugees.
Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said Sunday Serbia would not “put up any walls” but suggested his country will not agree to be the only migrant stop if countries farther west close their borders.
At the Brezice camp in Slovenia near the border with Croatia, U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) spokesman Babar Baloch urged leaders to come up with a system to register and screen newcomers when they first enter Europe, rather than piecemeal along the way.
“But also very important is to help Syria’s neighboring countries where there are around 4 million refugees,” Baloch said. “These people don’t need to take these risky journeys if there are legal pathways to come to Europe.”
The lack of a common policy is straining ties among European leaders, raising questions about the EU’s future.
Rights group Amnesty International said the 28-country bloc could not afford to end another meeting without an agreed plan.
“As winter looms, the sight of thousands of refugees sleeping rough as they make their way through Europe represents a damning indictment of the European Union’s failure to offer a coordinated response to the refugee crisis,” said John Dalhuisen, Amnesty’s director for Europe and Central Asia.
Death toll
The continent is experiencing the worst migration crisis since World War II. At least three migrants — two children and a woman — drowned on Sunday when their boat sank off the Greek island of Lesbos, the coast guard said, the latest fatalities in Europe’s refugee crisis which has claimed nearly 3,000 lives.
Around a dozen others, mostly Afghans, are still missing after the rickety vessel, carrying 60 people, went down at dawn as it made the perilous crossing from Turkey, according to the Greek coast guard. Also Sunday, the bodies of 29 people thought to be migrants were discovered on beaches near a city 160 kilometers (100 miles) east of Tripoli, the Red Crescent said.
“Local residents told us about bodies on the beaches around Zliten,” spokesman Mohamed al-Misrati told the French news agency AFP. “We discovered 25 bodies, then another four.”
Misrati did not give any further details about the nationality of the deceased, but the Tripoli authorities’ official news agency reported that they were from Africa.

Cyprus-27-year old Filipina mother and undocumented worker jumped from the 5th floor of a building when the immigration police attempt to check

A young Filipina mother fell to her death from the 5th floor of an apartment complex in Nicosia on Friday, in an attempt to flee police immigrant checks.
Police were performing routine checks following reports that immigrants without residence permits were staying in the building.
When the 27-year-old woman from the Philippines whose permit had expired long time ago, was informed of police presence, unnoticed she tried to get to the next door apartment via the building’s skylight.
No one saw her fall. She was found later heavily injured when neighbours went searching for her after the police had gone.
She was taken to hospital but succumbed to her injuries on Saturday morning.
The unfortunate woman was a mother of three young children and was residing in Nicosia with her Nepalese partner. 
Tsismosaonline.com news reporter talked to Nepalese husbund and he said two days before the police raid the building, his wife  worried about her life as an undocumented worker " I built a family here -- but it could all be taken away. I live in fear of deportation were the last words of the filipina. 
I was at work in a restaurant when I heard immigration police was arresting undocumented workers. Two armed men with badges showed up on my apartment complex in Nicosia the husbund said. My neighborhood was full of armed officers and flashing police lights. All my neighbors were out on the street.
I was born in a small farming town in Nepal and came to Cyprus without papers at 20 years old. The lingo for people like me is a “Dreamer” .I knew we were undocumented, but I didn’t yet understand what it meant. I was different. Like when my friends got their licenses, and I couldn’t. Or when I tried to find work, but was told I wouldn’t be able to. That’s when I started to realize what life without immigration papers was going to be like.
I started to feel pretty bad about myself, too, like I wasn’t good enough, because I wasn’t like the other legal foreigners. I worried about stuff like that all the time. I worried about how I could help support my family financially, too.  I need to work to support my family, and I need documents in order to do that lawfully. My children won’t have their mother by their side. Who could ever call that justice?
Deportation: What Happens if you are Deported
Deportation is a serious problem for  undocumented workers. If you over stay your visa, work illegally or break the law, you are liable for deportation. However, deportations can happen by accident too.
There are a few things to keep in mind regarding deportation orders. Usually, the orders will give you a chance to leave of your own free will and most of the time, you won’t get an ugly deportation stamp in the back of your passport and more likely than not, be allowed back into the country after a set amount of time (or simply after you leave and get a new visa). Deportation orders usually come with terms and conditions, you must leave within a set amount of time, buy your own ticket out (don’t necessarily need to go home but you can’t stay here) and stay outside the country for a set period of time.
If you violate the deportation orders, you are in for a nasty surprise. You will more likely than not be detained in an immigration detention centre while the host country processes you out. If you are detained, you can expect to sit in the detention centre for up to a week and sometimes longer. At this point, it is an official deportation, you get the deportation stamp in the back of your passport and free ticket home (they usually don’t give you a plane ticket to anywhere but your home country). You may have just stopped and saw I said free ticket and yes, it is free in a sense but you will be billed for the ticket and usually fined, it will be much more expensive than if you had self-deported.
If you were forcefully deported, cross that country off the places you cannot visit again as you won’t be allowed back in until you repay the ticket, fine and have to wait a set period of time, that is if they even let you back in. Not only that, be prepared to answer some questions at the next port of entry as immigration officers really don’t like seeing deportation stamps. However, hope is not lost if you find yourself with one of those stamps in the back of your passport and in fact, is easy to rectify (won’t help you get back into the country you were deported from).
Keep in mind, most countries ask you if you have ever been deported or removed from a country. If you have but never got the stamp or it is no longer in your (new) passport, then tick no.  If you have that stamp and the arrival card asks if you have been deported, obviously you need to tick yes because it will be quite obvious to the immigration officer you are lying and you’ll probably be booted out of another country.

reporting for tsismosaonline.com 13-10-2015 pinay ako

The true Story of the Refugee Boys Who Found Death on Their Way to Greece , watch the shocking video

Relatives of the young refugee boys Aylan and Galip Kurdi whose bodies were found washed up on the shores of the Mediterranean have spoken for the first time,.
The three-year-old Aylan and his five-year-old brother Galip drowned when the overcrowded dinghy filled with a total of 17 refugees fleeing the war in Syria capsized shortly into the crossing to the Greek island of Kos, the Daily Mail reports says. The Kurdi family had fled their hometown of Kobane in the wake of the ISIS attack.
Their mother, 35-year-old Rehan, died with them at sea as well. Only father Abdullah survived, making it back to the shore. A total of 13 passengers are believed to have died. The boys’ aunt has spoken to the press for the tragedy.
Aylan and Galip, who were not wearing life jackets, could not survive when the boat overturned in the dead of night, some 30 minutes after it set off from the holiday resort of Bodrum in Turkey. Their dead bodies, still clad in tiny T-shirts and shorts, washed up on Ali Hoca Point Beach and boatmen alerted the authorities.
The boys’ aunt, Teema Kurdi, spoke of the moment a heartbroken Abdullah Kurdi telephoned relatives to tell them about the tragedy. She also said that Mr. Kurdi now plans to return to the family’s war-torn hometown in order to lay the boys and their mother to rest.
According to local reports, the boats were part of a flotilla of dinghys that were boarded at an inlet before leaving off Akyarlar – the nearest point from Turkey to the Greek island of Kos.
Another dinghy among the flotilla, which was carrying a further 16 refugees to Kos, also overturned, with eight of the passengers confirmed dead, four missing and four survivors.
The Turkish coastguard confirmed that none of the boats had made it to Kos – all turned back to Bodrum.
The route between Bodrum and Kos is one of the shortest from Turkey to the Greek islands, only about 13 miles. Thousands of refugees and migrants are attempting the perilous sea crossing despite the serious risks.
The dead are among the 2,500 people who have already lost their lives at sea this year while fleeing from war-torn and poor regions trying to reach safety in Europe.

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European Court of Human Rights condemned Greece for violating Human Rights

The European Court of Human Rights condemned Greece for violating a Human Rights Convention article regarding inhuman and degrading treatment in two separate cases. The first court decision concerns an Iranian national who arrived in Greece on November 13, 2010 seeking asylum and was held at the border stations of Soufli, Ferres and Alexandroupolis for six months. When he was finally released, his request for asylum was denied by Greek authorities. The Iranian man claims that the appeal against his request denial is still pending since April 25, 2011. In his action he also states that he was held for six months without trial and was released two days before the official deadline, with a temporary visa. He was forced to live homeless, and in poverty, under degrading conditions. The Court has vindicated him, condemning Greece for inhuman and degrading treatment of an asylum seeker and ordered the state to pay 6,500 euros in compensation for moral damage. Meanwhile, the European Court of Human Rights also condemned Greece on a second case for the violation of a migrant’s right to liberty and security, as well as for the inhuman and degrading treatment that he suffered. Iraqi national, Hussein Mohammed was arrested for illegal entry on November 15, 2010 in Soufli, northern Greece when he was just seven years old. His age had to be determined since a Frontex officer claimed incorrectly that he was born in 1990. Later, he was transferred to the juvenile detention center in Soufli and given 30 days to leave Greece and go to Germany where his brother was waiting for him. The Court condemned Greece for violation of the right to liberty and security and for inhuman and degrading treatment of a person, forcing the state to pay the Iraqi national 8,500 euros as compensation.

Greece-Two Syrians refugees, among those protesting in Syntagma Square for political asylum, are Dead

Two Syrians refugees, among those protesting in Syntagma Square in order to be granted a political asylum, have lost their lives, as their compatriots revealed yesterday. According to them, one died in his attempt to cross the Greek-Albanian border in order to continue his journey to Europe, and the second died while being hospitalized, after suffering a heart attack. According to the refugees, the former’s name was Ayman Ghazal, he was around 50 years old and from Aleppo. After spending twelve days at the protest in Syntagma Square, he decided to leave the country to reach his destination in northern Europe. He tried to cross the border with some 30 other people on foot. After almost an hour of trekking, they had to cross a stream and some time later, Ghazal suffered a seizure. After being carried by others, unconscious on a sleeping bag, he was finally brought back to Kakavia border crossing and an ambulance transported him to the nearest hospital, where he died. Abdulghafour Tammaa, one of the Syrian protesters in Syntagma Square, tweeted that Ghazal had died in an Albanian forest “due to the cold,” most likely to a heart attack, adding that his “dream of Europe” had perished with him. According to a post on the Syrian protesters’ Facebook page, the dead man’s family is currently in Mersin, Turkey. Last night, their 16th camped out in Syntagma Square, Syrians and Greek supporters lit candles and held up photographs of Ghazal in his memory. The second – unnamed – Syrian who lost his life also suffered a heart attack, while being hospitalized in Athens, after several days in Syntagma Square.

Police Department of Foreigners in Greece ... Tuberculosis, hepatitis, and Violence

Least ten confirmed cases of tuberculosis found inside Police station in Patision and at least three rumored for Aliens. Last Thursday was rushed to the hospital a detainee from Afghanistan which reportedly found engaged tuberculosis.
In 2014, Greece is Member of the State of the European Union, and they are foreign prisoners with tuberculosis ! At the same time outside the Department of Foreigners of Attica,  where dozens of detained immigrants who tried to enter the country illegally starting from every possible and impossible place on earth. "You have given the piece of paper?" Asks one another. They seem anxious. They want to know if their colleagues, waiting for hours in the queue, in the bustle of the day there is no time to lose. 
 Foreigners who paid 1,000 euros over the head to travel to the promised land ...  Criminal prisoners, among them ruthless criminals. Murderers and rapists. Prisoners with serious infectious diseases.  "Herein tuberculosis, hepatitis and AIDS reap," says a lawyer. An example of the appalling conditions in Aliens what was said recently by two doctors at the information seminar for Ebola virus and tuberculosis: "What we can do is to reduce the chances of catching colleagues" tried to explain the institutions class, admitting that the risk of transmission of infectious diseases are quite serious. 
One danger is that every day over the heads not only of immigrants and police who guard and the team of doctors, nurses and administrative staff (23 people) who has been sent by HCDCP to provide primary care to patients with doctors to report that "there are no adequate measures." 
However, it is known that the Police Department of Foreigners in Greece  have no space isolation for sick prisoners. And if it were only that ... The scenes of violence are considered commonplace. Only groans from panic attacks who suffer daily prisoners arrive and surplus to weave the scene of absolute horror.

Shock and anger-Greek Woman with AIDS Sees Her Name on Posters in Lesvos island

Photocopies of a medical report bearing the name of a local Greek woman diagnosed with AIDS appeared on walls throughout the center of Lesbos, capital of the island of Mytilene in the northeast Aegean Sea. According to local media reports, hundreds of additional photocopies with the name of the woman were found scattered throughout the streets of the town.
According to a news report on lesvosnewsnet.com quoting the local Empros newspaper, residents of Lesbos were dumbfounded on Wednesday and Thursday when they saw the posters flung throughout their town.
Locals were shocked and angered when they had to clear hundreds of photocopies scattered all throughout the central Lesbos sq.. This probably marks the first time that such an act of castigation was carried out against someone in Greece.
The perpetrators printed the woman’s diagnosis as issued from an Athens hospital. The act of copying a medical diagnosis and publishing it is punishable by law – as is the clear invasion of privacy pertaining to the case.