Moria: Reception or detention? What does it look like?[/caption]
One Palestinian family and 8 Afghans – among them unaccompanied minors – are being hold for he second day in the new “first reception centre” – prison in Moria, Mytilene.
According to Oxford Dictionnries a “reception centre” is:
a hostel providing temporary accommodation for distressed people such as refugees, the homeless, and those with psychiatric difficulties.
while a “detention centre” is:
an institution for the short-term detention of illegal immigrants, refugees, people awaiting trial or sentence, or (formerly in the UK) young offenders.
Free all detained refugees!
No prisons but open welcome centres!