"Lawyers for a Limerick man wanted in Greece on a human trafficking charge, which alleges that he attempted to facilitate the smuggling of 66 Middle Eastern people to Italy by speedboat, have told the High Court that Greek prisoners are held in conditions that are "an affront to their human dignity"."
""It's less the staff that are running them, but (more) the prisoners themselves in groups along ethnic lines are in control of the prisons," said Simon Matthews BL, representing Jeremiah O'Brien (55)."
A Limerick man, Jeremiah O'Brien (55), is wanted in Greece on a human trafficking charge alleging he attempted to facilitate the smuggling of 66 Middle Eastern people to Italy by speedboat. Greek prisoners are held in conditions that are an affront to their human dignity. Prisoner groups organized along ethnic lines are in control of the prisons rather than staff. The situation highlights challenges in prison management, ethnic tensions among detainees, and the treatment of migrants and asylum seekers in detention. The allegations and custodial conditions raise human-rights concerns and implicate cross-border criminality by sea.
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