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In a huge victory for children’s rights, the Greek government is ending the long-standing practice of detaining unaccompanied migrant children in jail cells.
Human Rights Watch published its first report on the consequences of the “protective custody” regime in 2008. Since then, we have interviewed dozens of unaccompanied children detained by Greek police for weeks or months in small, overcrowded and unsanitary police station cells.
Since last April, many people joined Human Rights Watch’s #FreeTheKids campaign, calling on Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to immediately release unaccompanied migrant children and transfer them to child-friendly facilities.
Greece’s pledge to end the practice is an important move to protect children and resonates deeply among those who have worked tirelessly to defend the rights of these kids for years.
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