Save us from this hell: Afghan military translator who is trapped in Greek refugee camp begs to come to Britain

By: Andrea Capuselli

A former British military translator and his sick wife have pleaded to come to the UK after being trapped in the ‘worst refugee camp on Earth’ on a Greek island. Nesar, who served alongside UK troops for almost two years in Helmand in Afghanistan, fled for Britain with his wife after facing Taliban threats. But he is now ‘stuck in hell’ with 19,000 migrants in the squalid Moria camp on Lesbos and is facing deportation back to Afghanistan. There is no electricity and little sanitation – there are 210 people per toilet and 630 per shower in the camp.

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