{"id":149772,"date":"2021-05-05T05:00:05","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T05:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/may\/05\/revealed-2000-refugee-deaths-linked-to-eu-pushbacks"},"modified":"2021-05-05T05:00:05","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T05:00:05","slug":"revealed-2000-refugee-deaths-linked-to-illegal-eu-pushbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/05\/05\/revealed-2000-refugee-deaths-linked-to-illegal-eu-pushbacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: 2,000 refugee deaths linked to illegal EU pushbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Guardian analysis finds EU countries used brutal tactics to stop nearly 40,000 asylum seekers crossing borders<\/p><p>EU member states have used illegal operations to push back at least 40,000 asylum seekers from Europe\u2019s borders during the pandemic, linked to the death of more than 2,000 people, the Guardian can reveal.<\/p><p>In one of the biggest mass expulsions in decades, European countries, supported by EU\u2019s border agency Frontex, systematically pushed back refugees, including children fleeing from wars, in their thousands, using illegal tactics ranging from assault to brutality during detention or transportation.<\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/apr\/27\/exclusive-uk-accused-of-stranding-vulnerable-refugees-after-brexit\">UK accused of stranding vulnerable refugees after Brexit<\/a> <\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/may\/05\/revealed-2000-refugee-deaths-linked-to-eu-pushbacks\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/may\/05\/revealed-2000-refugee-deaths-linked-to-eu-pushbacks\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Guardian analysis finds EU countries used brutal tactics to stop nearly 40,000 asylum seekers crossing bordersEU member states have used illegal operations to push back at least 40,000 asylum seekers from Europe\u2019s borders during the pandemic, linked &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4703,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[708,338,3414,471,17187,1322,1333,1341,6,3055,4835,194,22416,1258,242,238,1320,111],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149772"}],"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\/4703"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149772"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150077,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149772\/revisions\/150077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}