[A boy walks at a railway station at a makeshift camp for refugees and migrants at the Greek-Macedonian border near the village of Idomeni]By Karolina Tagaris ATHENS (Reuters) - Migrants and refugees are being freed from detention centres in Greece but remain trapped on its islands until their asylum requests are processed, exposing them to dire living conditions and even the risk of people smugglers, human rights groups say. Some 8,000 people, many escaping the Syrian war, have arrived on boats from Turkey since March and are held under a European Union deal with Ankara designed to seal off the main route into Europe for over a million people since 2015. Under the deal, those who do not seek asylum in Greece - and those who are rejected - will be sent back to Turkey.
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