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Saturday, February 14, 2015

Greece pledges to shut immigrant detention centers

Greece's new left-wing government pledged on Saturday to close down detention centers for illegal immigrants that have long been criticized by rights groups as inhumane. A Pakistani man had died overnight at the Amygdaleza detention center in western Athens in a suspected suicide. "Detention centers - we're finished with them," Deputy Interior Minister Yannis Panousis, who is in charge of public ...


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