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Activists Urge Greece to Release Migrant Children

Anthee Carassava

   ATHENS - Human rights activists are urging the government of Greece to
   release 276 unaccompanied migrant children from police detention cells.
   Human Rights Watch is leading the appeal, saying the children's
   continued detention is a breach of both local and international laws.
   Back in November, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis launched an
   ambitious campaign, promising to leave no migrant child unprotected.
   And in the months that followed, hundreds of them trapped in Greece,
   alone for up to a year,have been resettled to the heart of Europe,
   re-uniting with their families.

   But news of their ordeal has not stopped more migrants from making
   their way to the country from Turkey.

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