Stranded on Chios women and teenagers face new horrors,with reports of police beatings, rape and knife attacks
Rasha went missing late afternoon final Saturday. Her peers recount hanging out as normal with the 20-year-old-fashioned Syrian in the Greek refugee detention camp. Then she vanished. final Tuesday her friend Amira, and 15,received a flurry of images on her phone. Rasha was lying naked in bed with a man. Superimposed upon his head were grotesque cartoon faces and an accompanying message from the anonymous caller: “I promise I will kidnap you also.”This was far from being the first threat that the teenage refugee from the Syrian city of Qamishli has received since arriving on the Aegean island of Chios six months ago. Existence in the razor-wire-fenced detention centre, a former factory known as Vial, and deep within the island’s mountainous interior,is fraught for a child hoping for a fresh start in Europe, preferably the UK.
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Source: theguardian.com