Prisons on a prison island

Prisons on a prison island

The third video in our series 'Explaining Immigration Detention in Greece' focuses on Lesvos as a prison island and as such, it illuminates the growing intersections between practices of immigration detention and asylum reception, which have been previously legally distinct. It presents images and videos of Moria and Mavrovouni, the camp that opened after Moria was burned down in 2020, generously provided by NGO Fenix Humanitarian Legal Aid and draws on the organisation’s years of offering legal support to asylum seekers on the island.