A outstanding humanitarian group on Thursday blasted Greece over its remedy of asylum-seekers on the island of Lesbos, repeating allegations of unlawful deportations again to Turkey and claiming authorities are utilizing starvation as a weapon in opposition to some migrants.

Doctors Without Borders, recognized by its French acronym MSF, mentioned in a press release that the state of affairs for asylum-seekers on the jap Aegean Sea island is “continuously deteriorating.”

“Many people there have been exposed to violence and have alleged abductions by unidentified masked people, pushbacks that forced them out of Greece, arbitrary detentions, and deprivation of food and shelter,” it mentioned.

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The Greek authorities has ordered an investigation into claims {that a} group of migrants was illegally deported from Lesbos again to Turkey. Last week’s New York Times report claimed that the migrants had been taken onto a Greek coast guard boat that left them in a raft at sea to be picked up by the Turkish coast guard, which returned them to Turkey.

Athens has repeatedly denied persistent allegations that it engages in such deportations, referred to as pushbacks. Lesbos is a serious touchdown level for hundreds of individuals in search of a greater life in Europe, who cross illegally from Turkey in small boats supplied by smuggling gangs.

MSF mentioned Thursday that concern of pushbacks was stopping many newly-arrived migrants from accessing its well being providers, whereas others who couldn’t be discovered might have been secretly deported.

“When we are alerted of newly arrived people in urgent need of medical assistance, we spend hours — sometimes days — looking for them as they are often hiding in forests,” Nihal Osman, MSF’s Lesbos coordinator, mentioned. Osman added that since June 2022, MSF had been unable to search out 940 individuals at their reported areas.

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The group additionally claimed that Greek authorities stopped giving meals on May 17 to individuals who had accomplished the registration course of in a Lesbos middle for asylum seekers to remain pending examination of their bids.

“The government is using food as leverage to force people to leave the facility,” Osman mentioned. He additionally described as “dire” circumstances at one other middle the place newly arrived asylum seekers are despatched for days, saying it is overcrowded and too remotely situated.

There was no rapid remark from the Greek authorities.

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Nearly 1,000,000 individuals reached Greece from Turkey in 2015, most touchdown on Lesbos. Numbers later dropped, and since 2019 Athens has stepped up patrols at sea to additional cut back arrivals.