Greece paying asylum seekers to reject appeals
The Greek government is giving cash incentives for rejected asylum seekers on the islands to forgo their legal rights to appeal their cases.
Some €1,000 and free plane tickets home are now part of a largely EU-financed package to send them packing as quickly as possible.
“This is quite complicated and quite immoral,” a Greek lawyer working for Save the Children, an international NGO, told EUobserver on Tuesday (2 May).
The move is part of a larger effort to return people to Turkey and free up administrative bottlenecks, but the plan has generated criticism from human rights defenders who say asylum seekers are being pushed into taking the money.
People have five days to decide whether to take the cash, with reports emerging that even that short delay was not being respected by authorities. Previously, people were entitled to the assistance even if they appealed.
▻https://euobserver.com/migration/137762
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