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Occupy Lesvos: Refugee Resistance at the Heart of the Border Regime
Last week a group of Afghan asylum-seekers occupied Sappho Square, a public space at the heart of Lesvos and the ongoing ‘refugee crisis’, to demand their asylum claims – which have dragged on for 12 or 18 months – be resolved. They won.