Abandoned and abused: the forgotten Syrian refugee children on a Greek detention island

Via The Guardian – Stranded on Chios women and teenagers face new horrors, with reports of police beatings, rape and knife attacks:

What those that successfully make the crossing quickly encounter could hardly be further from their aspirations of a civilised and safe world. The child refugees of Chios describe being stabbed by local people, police beatings, attacks by the far right, knife fights among drunken adult asylum seekers, and sleepless nights in flimsy tents on pebble beaches.

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