{"id":14905,"date":"2021-01-27T15:41:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T15:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/27\/lesbos-refugee-site-is-contaminated-by-lead-says-human-rights-watch"},"modified":"2021-01-27T15:41:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T15:41:00","slug":"lesbos-refugee-site-is-contaminated-by-lead-says-human-rights-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/27\/lesbos-refugee-site-is-contaminated-by-lead-says-human-rights-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesbos refugee site is contaminated by lead, says Human Rights Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US-based group asks Athens to release details of tests conducted at facility built on former military installation<\/p><p>An emergency refugee camp erected on the Aegean island of Lesbos is a potential health hazard for thousands of asylum seekers and aid workers because the site has been contaminated by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2021\/01\/27\/greece-migrant-camp-lead-contamination\">lead poisoning<\/a>, according to Human Rights Watch.<\/p><p>The US-based group urged Athens\u2019 centre-right government to release further details of the tests it has conducted at the facility, which was formerly a military installation.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/27\/lesbos-refugee-site-is-contaminated-by-lead-says-human-rights-watch\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/27\/lesbos-refugee-site-is-contaminated-by-lead-says-human-rights-watch\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US-based group asks Athens to release details of tests conducted at facility built on former military installationAn emergency refugee camp erected on the Aegean island of Lesbos is a potential health hazard for thousands of asylum seekers and aid work&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":477,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[471,1341,6,242,238,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/477"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14905"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14947,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14905\/revisions\/14947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}