{"id":16375,"date":"2021-02-01T07:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T07:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/feb\/01\/balkan-route-migrants-croatia-bosnia-border"},"modified":"2021-02-01T07:15:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T07:15:00","slug":"police-searched-my-babys-nappy-migrant-families-on-the-perilous-balkan-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/02\/01\/police-searched-my-babys-nappy-migrant-families-on-the-perilous-balkan-route\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Police searched my baby’s nappy’: migrant families on the perilous Balkan route"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018The game\u2019 of crossing the Croatian-Bosnian border with children often results in degrading treatment and violent pushbacks, refugees say
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An Afghan girl pulls her baby sister along in a pram through the mud and snow. Saman is six and baby Darya is 10 months old. They and their family have been pushed back into Bosnia 11 times by the Croatian police, who stripped Darya bare to check if the parents had hidden mobile phones or money in her nappy.<\/p>

\u201cThey searched her as though she were an adult. I could not believe my eyes,\u201d says Darya\u2019s mother, Maryam, 40, limping through the mud and clinging to a stick.<\/p>

Related: <\/span>Croatia denies migrant border attacks after new reports of brutal pushbacks<\/a> <\/p> Continue reading...<\/a>\n

This post was originally published on Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2018The game\u2019 of crossing the Croatian-Bosnian border with children often results in degrading treatment and violent pushbacks, refugees sayAn Afghan girl pulls her baby sister along in a pram through the mud and snow. Saman is six and baby Darya is 10 mo…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[538,3414,471,1322,1333,6,242,2936,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16375"}],"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\/1308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16376,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16375\/revisions\/16376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}