How my dream of freedom died in Greece`s `holding pens´
(The Guardian Greece)

Ahmed Hemeda fled Syria only to end up in the Malakasa refugee camp, where more than 1,000 people are being denied basic human rightsWhen Ahmed Hemeda landed in darkness on the Greek island of Lesbos he was convinced that the road ahead could not be as hard as the one he had just travelled.But, instead of the volunteers and blankets that have met hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers before him, he was greeted by a jeering crowd of locals and had to be rescued by police. `It was the worst feeling I´ve ever had,` he said. `I felt that my dream of Greece was a false one.`I lived through four years of war in Syria. This month is worse than those four years Continue reading...