{"id":199777,"date":"2021-06-11T11:26:49","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T11:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/jun\/11\/frontex-turning-blind-eye-to-human-rights-violations-says-former-deputy"},"modified":"2021-06-11T11:26:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T11:26:49","slug":"frontex-turning-blind-eye-to-human-rights-violations-says-former-deputy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/06\/11\/frontex-turning-blind-eye-to-human-rights-violations-says-former-deputy\/","title":{"rendered":"Frontex turning \u2018blind eye\u2019 to human rights violations, says former deputy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gil Arias Fern\u00e1ndez says EU border agency, which is under investigation for illegal migrant pushbacks, cannot stop far-right infiltrating its ranks<\/p>

The former deputy head of Europe\u2019s border and coastguard agency has said the state of the beleaguered force \u201cpains\u201d him and that it is vulnerable to the \u201calarming\u201d rise of populism across the continent.<\/p>

In his first interview since leaving office, Gil Arias Fern\u00e1ndez, former deputy director at Frontex and once tipped for the top post, said he was deeply worried about the agency\u2019s damaged reputation, its decision to arm officers, and its inability to stop the far-right infiltrating its ranks, amid anti-migrant movements across Europe.<\/p>

Related: <\/span>EU states cooperating informally to deny refugees asylum rights \u2013 report<\/a> <\/p> Continue reading...<\/a>\n

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

Gil Arias Fern\u00e1ndez says EU border agency, which is under investigation for illegal migrant pushbacks, cannot stop far-right infiltrating its ranksThe former deputy head of Europe\u2019s border and coastguard agency has said the state of the beleaguered for…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5799,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29215,471,1322,1333,6,640,242,2936,238,18579,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199777"}],"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\/5799"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199778,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199777\/revisions\/199778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}