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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Katy Fallon

‘Destitution is almost inevitable’: Afghan refugees in Greece left homeless by failed system

Mohammad Ashraf Rasooli in the Athens flat he faces eviction from.
‘We don’t know what will happen to us.’ Mohammad Ashraf Rasooli in the Athens flat he faces eviction from. Photograph: Anna Pantelia/The Guardian

Mohammad Ashraf Rasooli, 70, looks at his five-year-old granddaughter, sitting on the floor next to him watching cartoons on a phone. They live in a two-bedroom flat in a suburb of Athens. “Even tomorrow, we don’t know what will happen to us,” he says.

The former judge and legal adviser to the Afghan Ministry of Justice, who had a role in putting together the 2004 Afghan constitution, is facing eviction with his family, including his three grandchildren. This is in line with regulations in Greece, which state that once someone has obtained refugee status, they must leave the accommodation provided for them within 30 days.

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