A group of 106 sub-Saharan Africans on board a rubber dinghy wait to be rescued by the NGO Migrant Offshore Aid Station some 25 miles off the Libyan coast, in this October 4, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi/Files
ATHENS (Reuters) - Shortly after taking power in January, Greece’s new government opened the gates of one of the main detention centres where thousands of undocumented migrants had been held against their will after arriving on the country’s Mediterranean shores.
Many of the inmates, including refugees and children, were driven to Athens and released, in what Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras's leftist government hailed as the beginning of the end of inhumane migrant policies of the past.
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