Aid workers say conditions are poor, with food limited and women and children being forced to sleep outside.
Refugees and migrants look through the fence from the centre
Dozens of Pakistani migrants at a detention
camp on the Greek island of Lesbos have staged a protest amid fears
they will be sent to Turkey in the coming days.
Many Pakistanis were among more than two hundred migrants
shipped from Greek islands on the first day an EU-Turkey deal, to try to
halt the flow of people into the EU, came into force.
The male protesters, who chanted "freedom" and "will you
help us please", are being held at the closed Moria facility, where
Human Rights Watch claims people are being denied proper legal
representation and asylum information.
Journalists wanting to get access to the men and other
migrants and asylum seekers in the camp are being told to "get papers"
from the police. But those papers take days to process, meaning there is
limited reporting from inside the camp.
More than 2,000 people, including many Syrians who fled war at home, are currently being held at Moria.
Aid workers say conditions there are poor, with food limited and women and children being forced to sleep outdoors.
Migrants are not allowed out of the camp and face expulsion
back to Turkey, from where most of them made the precarious crossing to
Greece by sea.
Aid workers who are being allowed inside Moria told Sky News some
Syrians have threatened to jump overboard if put on ships back to
Turkey. But the reality is many thousands in Greece are likely to be
returned in the coming weeks.
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees is insisting
all migrants in Moria have their asylum claims properly considered and
an appeal against a rejected claim considered before being forced to
leave Greece.
But there is believed to be a big delay in training and
providing the necessary staff to process the mass of applications,
leading to fears many will be expelled illegally.
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