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ATHENS, Greece | Rights groups urge Greece to scrap EU-Turkey migrant deal

ATHENS, Greece  — Human rights and migrant welfare groups are urging Greece to scrap its part of a deal between the European Union and Turkey, designed to reduce unchecked migration to Europe from the east.

In a statement Thursday, 20 groups sharply criticized the winter living conditions in Greece’s eastern Aegean island migrant camps, where asylum-seekers are held under the 2016 agreement. The…