Greece passes draconian legislation with prison terms for rejected asylum seekers | Greece

Greece has gone through a brutal legislation that could mean the asylum seekers who were rejected to wear ankle labels, with a movement that reflects the attempts of the central-health government from coming to the territory of the non-documentary immigrants.

If the challenging penalties are rejected, the claims of asylum are rejected, for the people staying in the country, they will enter an unprecedented zero tolerance age. As a border state that has been seen as a gateway to Europe for a long time, Greece has increased this year in immigration arrival.

Migration Minister Thanos Plevris, “Greek citizens responsible for Greek citizens and Greek citizens want to be protected,” he said. “The message is open [for migrants]: If your asylum request is rejected, you have two options. You either go to jail or return to your homeland. The Greek state does not accept you… Welcome. “

A shameless right -wing, Plavris, who caused fluctuations among more moderate members of Greece’s central right government insisted that he would continue to be given to applicants who meet the need for international protection.

However, in accordance with the new law, asylum seekers whose allegations have been rejected and do not leave the country within 14 days are sentenced to two to five years of imprisonment. Debent measures will also harden: People who come without appropriate documents will be detained for 24 months from the current 18 months, while the irregular immigrants in Greece for seven years will no longer have the right to legalize their status. Those who are guilty of illegal entry will be fined 10,000 €.

Measures, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’in Libya in the midst of an increase in the islands of Crete and Gavdos in the middle of an increase in asylum applications arrived two months after a 90 -day pause statement. In the first week of July, more than 2,000 people made the transition successfully – an important increase in a country where the number of immigrants has reached the peak of the refugee crisis since 2015.

Mitsotakis insisted that the suspension process was “closed to Greece ına to the smuggling rings, but it was condemned by human rights groups as a serious violation of international law.

Since 2019, the government has described migration policies as “difficult but fair ve and rejects illegal return claims to keep the asylum seekers away.

Pleven, which addresses Parliament, said that he was proud of the legislation that will be at the forefront of the policies that several EU members want to implement Greece.

However, on Wednesday, the recoil was as wide as a wide, the judges took an unprecedented weighing step to criticize the emphasis on the pressure of the legislation.

Emphasizing the lack of consensus on the measures, Dimitris Kairidis, who resigned as the Minister of Migration and Asylum in 2024, said that while Hayati Athens also alleviated the legal migration routes at a time when labor problems were acute.

“Both Greece needs illegal confrontation, and at the same time the growing economy needs to encourage legal migration as necessary,” he said.

During his term of office, he legalized the status of 30,000 indifferent migratory workers, desperately needed in the agriculture, construction and tourism sectors.

Greece was caught with a demographic crisis that forced the Ministry of Education to close more than 750 schools due to the lack of students, and immigrant solidarity workers called legal racist and absurd.

“This is so contradictory that Greece’s population is in such a free fall and immigrants should pass when the immigrants offer a solution to labor shortage. “Mitsotakis managed to hold the central floor. With this clearly racist law, he is trying to explicitly expand the voter pool by addressing it to the right.”