'Samos migrant center is similar to a prison': Amnesty

(ANSA) - ATHENS, JUL 30 - "Greece must urgently repeal the laws that are causing the systematic and illegal deprivation of liberty of asylum seekers detained in the Closed controlled access center" of Samos, a new Amnesty International report said.
    "The EU should hold Greece accountable for human rights violations in that center and should ensure that model does not become an example for the recently adopted Pact on Migration and Asylum," the NGO reported.
    Opened in 2021, the Samos center is part of the €276 million plan with which the European Commission financed the construction of new reception centers for migrants in the Greek Aegean islands.
    "Security cameras and barbed wire surround the centre, which has become so similar to a prison. People do not have enough water or adequate medical care and, in some cases, not even beds," Deprose Muchena, director of Amnesty International's Human Rights Impact Division, denounced. (ANSA).