{"id":90559,"date":"2021-05-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actionpal.ahmadalkhuleyf.net\/post\/11782\/"},"modified":"2021-05-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T21:00:00","slug":"11782","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/post\/11782","title":{"rendered":"Greece Heavily Criticized over Separation Walls around Migrant Camps"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Greek government has come under heavy criticism over the grey walls, three metres (10 feet) high, which are being built around refugee camps near Athens.<\/span><\/p>\n

Activists said there are plans to construct walls around another 24 camps on the Greek mainland.<\/span><\/p>\n

The walls are being currently built around the five mainland refugee camps, Ritsona, Polykastro, Diavata, Makakasa and Nea Kavala.<\/span><\/p>\n

Authorities have told camp residents that the walls are for their own protection.<\/span><\/p>\n

In spite of assurances that daily life will not change for camp residents, a call for tenders, published by the government, reveals extensive measures to amplify security measures in refugee camps across Greece.<\/span><\/p>\n

Drones patrolling from the sky, magnetic gates with integrated thermographic cameras, X-ray machines and security cameras at the entry and exit points are just some tools that are planned to be implemented.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are also proposals to close camp gates at about 9pm to prevent people from leaving, according to the Ministry for Migration.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the call, these surveillance systems will be installed in 39 camps across the mainland and the Greek islands; 75 percent of the costs will be covered by the European Internal Security Fund.<\/span><\/p>\n

The walls alone cost about 28.4 million euros ($34.8m) and largely funded by the European Commission.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some residents of the camps being walled off described a heightened sense of imprisonment.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Greek government has come under heavy criticism over the grey walls, three metres (10 feet) high, which are being built around refugee camps near Athens. Activists said there are plans to construct walls around another 24 camps on the Greek mainland. The walls are being currently built around the five mainland refugee camps, Ritsona, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64924,"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-90559","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\/90559","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=90559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}