It Was Steer Or They Would Kill Me: Why Sudanese War Refugees Are Filling Prisons In Greece

Prosecutors are using harsh anti-smuggling laws to jail people who have no connection to criminal offences, say migrants lawyers Former law student Samuel, 19, fled his home town of Geneina shortly after it was ransacked during of Sudans brutal civil war, which has 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.