Mohammad is from war-torn Darfur, often described as the scene of some of the worst violence in the world over the past two years. Enough for an asylum claim by someone from Darfur to be taken seriously, one would think. At the end of May 2005 this year, after considerable lobbying and court appeals by the Greek Council for Refugees and Amnesty International, Mohammad was released from his third spell of detention in Greece. Yet he is still no closer to having his claim to be a refugee properly examined, let alone be recognized as one.