The pain is acute and lasts. The lungs appear unable to fill with enough air. You are drowning and you think that you will die. The sounds and images around you seems to be moving slowly. You are wondering what are you doing there. Why are you in this situation? The Turkish military guards, with […]

It was December 9, 2019, when I phoned Pavlos Pavlidis, the forensic doctor at Alexandroupolis University Hospital, to ask him about two refugees found in the Soufli area, dead from the cold. “Six were ​​Antonis, not two. Two Somali women found themselves hugging together in the bushes in Feres near the river, two men elsewhere […]

Rashid is sitting with his friends at the edge of the slope, on some pallets and wood. He is over 60 years old and as he says, that he was an officer in the Afghan army. He has lost his left eye in one of the battles against Taliban.  He was already one week in […]

Ηis anxiety was growing from minute to minute. It was not just the fact that he failed in his mission. There were also dangers around him that could end his life at any time. The beautiful blue balloon was wandering around Idomeni refugee camp with great care, but he couldn’t determine his fate. Just like […]

In the neighborhoods of Moria, on the side between the mud and the garbage’s, children play casually, running among the narrow alleys created by tents and makeshift accommodations. Perhaps this is a mechanism that they develop, in order to influence as little as possible from what is happening around them. Like all children all over […]

“I thought that my life was about to change if I was leaving Afghanistan. Eventually it changed, but that change had nothing to do with how I was imagining it would be” says Ekramudin Khurami, expressing his pain and sadness over what happened to him. “Nothing would be happier for me than having my fingers […]