Article 5AKR0 Refugees on Lesbos face winter in makeshift facility after camp razed

Refugees on Lesbos face winter in makeshift facility after camp razed

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Helena Smith in Athens
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Greece says replacement will not be ready until summer as watchdog finds degrading' conditions in some centres

Thousands of people who were relocated to a tent camp after fires gutted Europe's biggest refugee facility on the Greek island of Lesbos will have to endure winter in the rudimentary settlement.

As Greece faced criticism from the continent's top human rights watchdog, the Committee for the Prevention of Torture, over the appalling conditions of several of its refugee holding centres, officials conceded asylum seekers would have to languish in the settlement until well into the new year.

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