Incidents of racist violence have been increasingly reported among Palestinian refugees and other asylum seekers in Greece.
Recently, a number of Palestinian refugees said they were heavily beaten by Greek coast guards after they crossed the Evros River, on the Greek-Turkish borders.
Testimonies by the Consolidated Rescue Group confirmed that migrants were subjected to money and property theft by the Greek coast guards. A refugee was forced to eat sand before he was aggressively beaten. Another refugee was strangled with a phone charger.
The Group added that 300 migrants were detained for one day in a dirty place before they were forced to cross the river and return to Turkey on the following day.
Greece has seen a massive influx of migrants since 2015, with thousands of people from war-torn countries like Syria seeking safety there. They either cross the Aegean Sea to get to the small southeast European country or its land border with Turkey.