WEBCLIP: Mehboob, refugee from Pakistan held in a detention centre on Samos, Greece (ENG)

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WEBCLIP: Mehboob, refugee from Pakistan held in a detention centre on Samos, Greece (FR)

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Unique Identifier Code / URN MSF164546

Date taken / Date Recorded 25/03/2016 12:00 AM

Country Greece

Commissioning section MSF-FRANCE

Photographer / videographer / producer Armelle Loiseau

Usage Rights (MSF) Internal Use Only

Formal Consent Copy available no

Editor's rating ★★★★★ (C)

Video format h264 (Constrained Baseline) (avc1 / 0x31637661)

Duration 1m26s

Maximum Size 1920px × 1080px 149.11 MB

Additional Information / Shotlist MEHBOOB
Refugee from Pakistan
Interviewed at the ‘hotspot’ on Samos, Greece
25 March 2016

ENG
If they send us back, our lives will be destroyed.
Rather than deporting us, it would be better that they kill us here.
First of all, this is not a camp, this is a prison.
This is not a camp. Nobody can go outside, no outsiders can come inside.
People cannot bring anything from outside.
We can’t go back because if we go back, it’ll be a big problem.
Some people have problems in the country: social problems, religious problems.
Some people have their own problems.
Another big problem is the economy; income is a problem.
We sacrificed everything. I sold my land.
If I go back I cannot farm because I’ve already sold all my land.
I have nothing there.
We have no option because we are helpless now.
We don’t know what they will do with us, if they’ll send us back or of they give us the chance to go to another country.
But we promise we will leave Greece,
we will not be a burden on the economy of Greece
because we know Greece already has a lot of people without shelter.
Hopefully, they give us the chance to continue,
we will see some other good country and they will help us.