On Wednesday, August 31st, 2022, as I was enduring day 26th of my 4th Hunger Strike outside the UNHCR office in Athens, Greece, I left my shelter again and went to the office of the Greek Section of Amnesty International this time in order to seek not only humanitarian assistance but also mediation in resolving this ongoing Hostage taking and my complete deprivation in Greece.
However, the people at the Amnesty International wouldn’t open the door even though they were present in their office.
Similarly, some of the tenants of the building who were frequently commuting there not only wouldn't let me in, but also forcibly closing the door and blockading my entry to the building even when the door was open.
In some cases, similar to what is happening at the UNHCR office, they were even threatening to call the Police on me simply for wanting to enter the building to reach the Amnesty’s office.
After a long time waiting at the front door, two relatively elderly occupants of the building eventually opened the door for me with a lot of hesitation.
Yet even then, right at the door of Amnesty’s office on the second floor of the building, they still wouldn’t open the door for me. The lights were on and I also heard people’s movement inside, but they ignored me behind the door as I was making efforts to speak to them.
Eventually, I was left with no other choice but to leave the building and wait for them outside hoping to catch them on the camera while leaving their office.
During my time waiting outside, though I managed to transfer a message directly to them through one of the commuters. A young girl, who later not only confirmed she delivered my message, but also saying she has been told that someone from Amnesty will be coming outside to speak to me. But no one came despite what she said.
At around 16:00 O’clock it began raining and I was without shelter or any sort of protection.
Shorty after the raining was over, one of the elderly tenants who was leaving the building, pointing at my banner which was installed in the public area and while talking to me in a very humiliating gesture, saying “Why this is here, you shouldn’t be here, leave this place now and if I see you tomorrow I will call the Police and so on and so forth.” as he walked away.
About one hour later I saw the Secretariat of Amnesty International sneaking out of the building all by himself, without paying the slightest attention to me. I followed the guy and tried to speak to him on the street, but he instantly changed the course, went into an alley and disappeared there where I couldn’t follow him anymore, as if he planned all these well before hand.
I had personally given him a letter several years earlier, so I know his face. I know his voice too. He is also the same person who is supposedly answering and talking care of the phone calls made to the Amnesty International, but always hangs up on me before I can even finish a sentence.
Most of the other occasions I saw him sneaking out of the building along with other people, mostly female employees, whom I never had a chance to catch on the camera or to see their faces.
Probably this time they have as well left the building separately to avoid being noticed, because at the end no one from or on behalf of the organization made any efforts to approach or to speak to me.
Overall, this was yet another horrific experience, a very exhausting and humiliating day for me at the front door of the Greek Section of Amnesty International without getting any help.
I left the place at 18:00 O’clock to return back to my shelter outside the UNHCR office where I have been left without any sort of help and support and currently at imminent risk of death by starvation.
If these are the people who claim to be defending the Human Rights, especially of those of the most vulnerable people, strangers in their country, I suppose it is needless to say how the rest of their society would be.
You can now imagine why no one wants to stay in this country and why I have been struggling for all these years to get help from abroad not only for getting out of this place, but also for sustaining my life as this Hostage taking and my complete deprivation here continues to drag on.
Help is needed more that ever it was before and it is needed now, not tomorrow and not another day in a nearly or distant future. Because, as this existential threat persists, I fear I might not survive another day.
I am now without cash, without multivitamins, without food, without safe water, without clothes and everything else essential for my survival.
What is happening here is nothing short of a targeted assassination. I fear for my life, my safety and well-being.
So, please spread the word, sign my online Petition now and make a Donation if you can.
Thank you for your solidarity and support.
Yours Respectfully,
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Hostage of Europe
Anwar Nillufary
Email: anwar.nillufary@gmail.com
Tel: +30 690 683 8657 / +30 698 118 7157
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Friday, September 02nd, 2022
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