Reports | 25 05 2020
“Polish camps are like prisons, and hunger is the same like in besieged Ghouta.”
This is what Syrian detainees say about the situation in the Polish camps, so they are making a distress call from one of Poland camps to get out, they are complaining of the poor conditions inside the camps and of the mistreatment by the police.
Imad from the prison in Poland has talked to Rozana about his detention with 33 people after being lost in their way and they entered the Polish territories erroneously in their journey from Hungary to Germany.
“Since a month and 5 days we have left Hungary toward Germany, we were 33 people, but the driver made a mistake and entered Poland, then the polish police have detained us and they took us to a nearby camp then we have been sentenced to spend an extendible period of 2 months in prison to verify our identities, despite we have passports and they wrote to the Syrian embassy to verify that these passports are not fake.The judge sentenced the group to 2 months in prison including 2 little girls and an infant, and 2 minors along with a lot of women and people of different nationalities.”
On account of a quarrel between him and 2 detained guys in the camp located on the Hungarian border, he has been transferred into another prison on the Polish-Belarusian border northern Poland, and he was put in solitary confinement for many days, “It has been a banal quarrel, it didn’t require transferring me all this way,” he said.
Imad in his talk to Rozana said that his detention in Poland was strange, “we have crossed 5 countries before Poland and no one has stopped us, why Polish authorities do that, why identity verification takes all this time, and why the judge has sentenced me to an extendible period of 2 months?”
“This is a prison and not a refugee camp, the food is bad and I see the children are hungry like what I saw in besieged Ghouta in rural Damascus, but the difference is that we are suffering the same situation in Europe,” he said.