{"id":396587,"date":"2021-11-19T12:43:10","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T12:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecanary.co\/?p=1506718"},"modified":"2021-11-19T12:43:10","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T12:43:10","slug":"meet-the-british-journalist-whos-banned-from-26-european-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/11\/19\/meet-the-british-journalist-whos-banned-from-26-european-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the British journalist who\u2019s banned from 26 European countries"},"content":{"rendered":"
This is Matt Broomfield. He’s a professional journalist from the UK, banned from 26 European countries, just for doing his job.<\/p>\n
Earlier in 2021, Broomfield was detained at the Italian border while on holiday in Greece, thrown into a Greek detention centre, and imprisoned for two months. He was subsequently banned from the 26 countries that make up the Schengen Area for ten years.<\/p>\n
While imprisoned, he had a taster of what life is like for refugees trapped in European detention centres. Broomfield said:<\/p>\n
My two months in detention were just a brief taste of what many refugees, political activists and journalists from the Middle East and beyond must spend a lifetime enduring. My case provided a window into the violence, squalor and farce of day-to-day life in the EU\u2019s detention-deportation machine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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