{"id":89931,"date":"2021-05-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actionpal.ahmadalkhuleyf.net\/post\/11727\/"},"modified":"2021-05-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T21:00:00","slug":"11727","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/post\/11727","title":{"rendered":"European Body Concerned by Greece&#8217;s Migrant Pushbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:times new roman; font-size:14pt\">Europe&#8217;s top human rights body has expressed \u201cdeep concern\u201dat persistent allegations that Greek authorities have on several occasions illegally forced back migrants trying to clandestinely enter from neighboring Turkey.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:times new roman; font-size:14pt\">In a letter to government officials in Athens, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatovi\u00c4\u2021 also voiced dismay that Greece&#8217;s reaction has been so far to \u201csimply dismiss (the) allegations\u201ddespite \u201cthe overwhelming body of evidence that has been presented in recent years.\u201d\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:times new roman; font-size:14pt\">In the letter made public Wednesday, Mijatovi\u00c4\u2021 urged the Greek government \u201cto put an end to these practices and to ensure that independent and effective investigations are carried out.\u201d\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:times new roman; font-size:14pt\">Citing testimony from migrants in Turkey, human rights groups have repeatedly accused Greece of engaging in so-called pushbacks \u201d\u201d a term that covers the prevention of people from entering the country to seek asylum, as well as the clandestine return to Turkey of people who have made it into Greece.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe&#8217;s top human rights body has expressed \u201cdeep concern\u201dat persistent allegations that Greek authorities have on several occasions illegally forced back migrants trying to clandestinely enter from neighboring Turkey. In a letter to government officials in Athens, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatovi\u00c4\u2021 also voiced dismay that Greece&#8217;s reaction has been so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-89931","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}