Bishoy, a 25-year-old Egyptian asylum seeker, at an anti-racist demonstration in the southern Athens suburb of Kallithea, where he was a victim in one of two separate racist attacks in May 2012 that left four migrants injured.
The Greek authorities are failing to tackle a rising wave of xenophobic violence that has left migrants afraid to walk the streets.
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Photo © 2012 Zalmaï for Human Rights Watch
If you’re interested, Evelyn, a Greek-American, has talked in-depth about the rise of Greece’s largest far-right political party, Golden Dawn, and how international economic policies (through the EU) and Greece’s current economic situation has affected the country and helped fuel Xenophobia.
(via myheadisweak)
