Kara Tepe Refugee Camp

Citizens' Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis on Saturday inspected the Moria reception and identification center (RIC) on the island of Lesvos in the eastern Aegean. He was briefed by director Yiannis Balbakakis about conditions at the hotspot, which currently hosts more than 6,000 asylum-seekers. About 40, mostly Afghans, were screened during his visit.

Police on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos said on Saturday that 13 asylum seekers, aged between 14 and 32, had been arrested at the Moria refugee camp on charges of causing grievous bodily harm.

An asylum seeker found dead on Wednesday near the Moria migrant camp on the Aegean island of Lesvos is believed to be a 22-year-old Afghan man.

According to local reports, the man had been attacked by a group of assailants.

An asylum-seeker has been found dead near Moria camp on the Greek island of Lesvos, according to reports on Wednesday.

Reports say it appeared the victim had been struck with a sharp object, though this has not yet been confirmed.

No more details were available about the identity of the victim.

Greek state sued for the first time over a refugee death by family of Moria camp resident who died in 2017.

The number of migrants waiting for their asylum application to be processed in the notorious reception and processing center in Moria, Lesvos, dropped below 6,000, based on data from the Migration Policy Ministry on Thursday.

A team behind the Paris-based Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow, YTT, research and educational project has collaborated with thousands of refugees in over 30 camps and squats across Europe and North Africa, collecting their voices.

'Today' by a 13-year-old Iraqi-Kurd boy currently living in Kara Tepe Refugee Camp, Lesbos Island, Greece. Photo: courtesy of YTT

About 400 asylum-seekers who had been held in the severely overcrowded Moria migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesvos have arrived in Greece's main port of Piraeus to be transferred to other camps and residences on the mainland.

The asylum-seekers, mainly families from Syria, Afghanistan and African countries, arrived Tuesday onboard an overnight ferry from Lesvos.

Employees of the asylum service on Lesvos have rung the alarm bell over conditions on the eastern Aegean island as official figures show that more than 11,000 migrants are currently residing at local facilities, more than twice the maximum capacity.

The arrival on the island of 615 migrants in the past three days pushed the total number of asylum seekers on Lesvos to 11,053.

The number of refugees and migrants topped 11,000 in Lesvos after 615 more asylum seekers reached the eastern Aegean island in the past three days alone, according to official data published on Monday.

Based on the information, 98 migrants of various nationalities arrived at the island on September 14, 193 on the 15th and 324 on the 16th.