“The situation of migrants, including asylum seekers, in the Greek Aegean islands [...] is explosive”, warned Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatović after a five-day visit to the camps in Lesbos, Samos, and Corinth.
“The situation [...] has dramatically worsened over the past [...] months”, she noted before denouncing a “desperate lack of medical care and sanitation in the vastly overcrowded camps”.
She added, “People queue for hours to get food and to go to bathrooms,...