One
particularly large group is that of unaccompanied minors, who are detained
alongside adults for lengthy periods of time, sometimes even when recorded as
minors. During MSF’s responses in 2013-14, the
teams
identified more than 100 young people who were most probably minors wrongly
registered as
adults.
Several had documentation from their country of origin proving their age,
although this had been
disregarded
by the police. Some said they had initially concealed their real age, thinking
that they would be
released
sooner if they claimed to be adults; others had no idea that the police had
registered them as
adults.
Unaccompanied Minors in Greece Drama
One particularly large group is that of unaccompanied minors , who are detained alongside adults for lengthy periods of time, sometimes ev...