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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Katy Fallon and Giorgos Christides

‘It was steer or they would kill me’: why Sudanese war refugees are filling prisons in Greece

A group of exhausted-looking men wrapped in foil blankets sit on the deck of a boat
A group of young men on a coastguard vessel arriving at Mytilene port in Lesbos, Greece, June 2022. Photograph: Panagiotis Balaskas/AP

Former law student Samuel, 19, fled his home town of Geneina shortly after it was ransacked during one of the worst massacres of Sudan’s brutal civil war, which has killed tens of thousands and displaced more than 13 million people.

After making it overland to Libya, Samuel spent two days crossing the Mediterranean in June before being rescued by a cargo ship and escorted by the Greek coastguard to Crete.

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