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Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Migrants held on Greek island demand freedom

By Karolina Tagaris LESBOS (Reuters) - Several dozen migrants being detained at a holding camp on the Greek island of Lesbos protested behind the barbed wire fence of the compound on Tuesday, shouting "We want freedom!" They were among thousands of refugees and migrants who have arrived on Lesbos on or since March 20 from Turkey and who are being held under a new EU agreement with Ankara until their asylum requests are processed and they are accepted or sent back. The first group of 202 migrants, most from Pakistan, were returned to Turkey on Monday from Lesbos and the Aegean island of Chios. Through barbed wire at the Moria camp on Lesbos, one man held up a piece of cardboard, which read: "Kill us if you want." On the wall of the sprawling gated complex, which was once an army camp, graffiti read: 'No one is illegal'.


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