Greece in Denial About Police Detention of Lone Kids

Expand Unaccompanied children line up for an evening meal at a detention facility run by the Greek police. © 2015 Kelly Lynn Lunde The European Court of Human Rights recently confirmed what many have long known: that Greece’s practice of locking up unaccompanied migrant and asylum-seeking children in police cells and detention centers leads to serious rights abuses. But despite that ruling, as of March 30, 82 unaccompanied children were still detained in so-called “protective custody,” held in police station cells or immigrant detention centers across the country. Human Rights Watch has…

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