Refugee Agency: Army Bases

Coverage Rules Dept: A UNHCR statement says building walls seldom resolves the problem of immigration pressure. It urged Greece to speed up efforts to overhaul its asylum screening procedures, according to The Star. Also Friday, a 46-year-old German newspaper reporter was detained briefly near the Greek-Turkish border. He was released after being charged with violating media-coverage rules in a military area, and his memory card with photographs was confiscated, police said and aTHENS The United Nations refugee agency on Friday criticized plans in Greece to build a fence along part of its border with Turkey, warning that asylum seekers could face greater difficulty escaping persecution and conflict. Greek lawmakers began debating a new draft immigration law that includes asylum-system reforms and plans to use old army bases as prisons for detained immigrants. As reported in the news.
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