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He has been stranded in Sandholm for six years, prohibited from building a new life in Europe, and unable to return to the country he fled.
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Nabil shares a small room with two other men
“This is worse than prison because I don’t have a release date,” he says.
“There is no way out. They give you no choice to die or not to die. I don’t want to go [back to Iraq]. I don’t want to get killed.”
In the small room he shares with two others, I ask if he regrets seeking a haven here.
“Absolutely,” he says. “The system here [has been] killing me slowly now for about six years. Day by day, second by second.”
“I am [keeping] myself really occupied, not thinking about it. Because if I think about it, I will go crazy.
“You do not have the right to get married, you cannot have a job, so I think you lose your identity. Day by day it is just like someone squeezing the life out of you.”
Banned from working or pursuing an education and surviving on government handouts, others like Nabil at Sandholm say they are living a dispirited life.
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