Still I Rise on Instagram: "Finally, after almost 5 years, the European Court of Human (ECtHR) rights condemned Greece for inhuman and degrading treatment against 7 unaccompanied minors (6 of them our former students) who lived in the Samos hotspot in 2019/2020! This is hopefully the first of other positive decisions: we still have more cases pending at the Court over the treatment of unaccompanied children in the Samos hotspot. The children, one of them as young as 14 years old, were forced to live in makeshift shelters in a camp that was overcrowded by more than ten times its official capacity. Despite being children, the authorities left them to fend for themselves in conditions described by the former European Commissioner for Human Rights as “struggle for survival”; bitten by rats, with moldy food and with limited access to showers and toilets. Due to limited capacity, we could only take some of these cases to court and follow up until today. Throughout the past five years, Still I Rise’s former students decided to continue their cases at the ECtHR because they wanted justice, and because they hoped that others would not have to go through what they had to endure. At least today, their pain and the abuses against them have been officially recognised by the ECtHR. Even though no decision or financial compensation can make up for what they, and thousands of others, had to go through, this is a huge victory for us and for everyone who resided in that hotspot: for the first time, the ECtHR recognised that all residents of the Samos hotspot, regardless of vulnerability, were subjected to inhumane and degrading treatment. P.s: A Special thank you goes out to the @ihaverights_ team and Philipp Schönberger, who have thoroughly followed up the cases at the ECtHR for all these years, making sure our students could get the justice they deserve. We couldn’t have done it without you! 🧡"

684 likes, 48 comments - stillirisengo on October 3, 2024: "Finally, after almost 5 years, the European Court of Human (ECtHR) rights condemned Greece for inhuman and degrading treatment against 7 unaccompanied minors (6 of them our former students) who lived in the Samos hotspot in 2019/2020! This is hopefully the first of other positive decisions: we still have more cases pending at the Court over the treatment of unaccompanied children in the Samos hotspot. The children, one of them as young as 14 years old, were forced to live in makeshift shelters in a camp that was overcrowded by more than ten times its official capacity. Despite being children, the authorities left them to fend for themselves in conditions described by the former European Commissioner for Human Rights as “struggle for survival”; bitten by rats, with moldy food and with limited access to showers and toilets. Due to limited capacity, we could only take some of these cases to court and follow up until today. Throughout the past five years, Still I Rise’s former students decided to continue their cases at the ECtHR because they wanted justice, and because they hoped that others would not have to go through what they had to endure. At least today, their pain and the abuses against them have been officially recognised by the ECtHR. Even though no decision or financial compensation can make up for what they, and thousands of others, had to go through, this is a huge victory for us and for everyone who resided in that hotspot: for the first time, the ECtHR recognised that all residents of the Samos hotspot, regardless of vulnerability, were subjected to inhumane and degrading treatment. P.s: A Special thank you goes out to the @ihaverights_ team and Philipp Schönberger, who have thoroughly followed up the cases at the ECtHR for all these years, making sure our students could get the justice they deserve. We couldn’t have done it without you! 🧡".

Still I Rise - 2Pac (Tupac Shakur)

Dear Lord. As we down here, struggle for as long as we know. In search of a paradise to touch (my nigga Johnny J).

Still I Rise - 2Pac (Tupac Shakur)

Dear Lord. As we down here, struggle for as long as we know. In search of a paradise to touch (my nigga Johnny J).

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