Flóttamannabúðir á Íslandi að springa- Fær ekki mat því hann týndi grímunni – „Þetta er hryllingur“

Samkvæmt flótta­manni sem skrifar á Facebook-síð­una Refugees in Iceland þá eru flótta­manna­búð­irnar við Ásbrú, líkt og hann kallar þær, að springa. Þar búa nú ríf­lega 100 manns í einu húsi. Matur er af skornum skammti og sumir vilja frekar fara aftur í alræmdar flótta­manna­búðir í Grikk­landi.

Maðurinn segir að fólkið þar fái ekki að fara úr her­bergjum sínum án þess að vera með grímu. Það er ef til vill skilj­an­legt en þeim hefur bara verið úthlutuð ein einnota gríma á mann. Fólk sem týnir grímunum eða þær skemm­ast ekki nýja grímu.

Enn fremur er fær fólk ekki afhentan mat nema það hafi grímu. Einn maður hefur ekki borðað í þrjá daga vegna þess. Búið er að loka sam­eig­in­legu eld­húsi svo ekki er hægt að elda sjálfur. „Það þarf að loka þessum búðum […] Þetta er hryll­ingur,“ skrifar mað­ur­inn en færslu hans má lesa í heild sinni hér fyrir neðan á ensku.

We are writing from Ásbrú camp, things here are not OK!

-Since one week the immigration office has sever­ely limited our rights and freedom, which were both very limited before this time.

-We are not allowed to leave our rooms without wearing a mask. The immigration gave us ONE MASK per per­son. The masks are SINGLE USE masks. They want us to use it continuously over the per­iod of many days. Besides this being absolu­tely unsanit­ary and counterproductive, we also have situations where people who have lost their masks or thrown them away are not allowed to get a new one and not allowed to exit their rooms.

– We now get less money on our shoppingcards, and our weekly income is now the total of 5100 isk.

-All communal areas have been closed, including the kitchen. This means we have no facilities to make our own food. (Note that this only happ­ened one week ago, when the second wave of infections is alr­eady star­t­ing to go down).

-We get ser­ved food two times per day and if we do not come to get our food in the designated time (12:00-13:00 and 18:00-19:00), we do not get any food.

-The food is inapp­ropri­ate for people with challenging health conditions. For example the men liv­ing here who have diabetes and this food is mak­ing them quite sick.

-One of the men with diabetes lost his single use face mask and the security here in Ásbrú HAS DENIED HIM FOOD FOR THREE DAYS. They also refuse to give him a new mask. We are waiting to complain to the immigration about this mal­tr­eat­ment, but they have been unreachable the whole weekend.

– Currently there is around 105 people liv­ing in one single build­ing in Ásbrú.

-The security guards are there to keep us impri­so­ned, not to „make us safe“ as the immigration claims.

-We are suffer­ing from psychological pressure, not being able to go out or do anyt­hing else than stay inside for months on end, we are suffer­ing from hun­ger due not enough food and bad food. People have started to ask for volunt­ary return to Greece. A place they fled from to seek more security here.

-This should say everyt­hing about the current situation in Ásbrú refugee camp. It needs to be closed down or the isolation needs to be ended. By now everyone should und­er­stand the psychological pressure of stay­ing in isolation like this. It is horri­ble, even though one’s room is not bad.

Why can we not enjoy the same rights as other people liv­ing in Iceland? We are human beings too. We want to live and thrive, we want to contribute to society.