{"id":15227,"date":"2018-09-16T02:22:14","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T02:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=15227"},"modified":"2018-09-16T02:22:14","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T02:22:14","slug":"greece-arrests-migrant-rescuers-on-charges-of-people-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=15227","title":{"rendered":"Greece arrests migrant rescuers on charges of people trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"66.2666666667\">\n<p>Thirty members of the Emergency Response Centre International, or ERCI, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/greece.html\">Greece<\/a> have been charged with trafficking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/subjects\/refugees.html\">refugees<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The accused include a former Olympic swimmer who helped save the lives of 18 people when their boat sank.<\/p>\n<p>Private search-and-rescue groups have become controversial as the refugees and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/subjects\/asylum-seekers.html\">asylum seekers<\/a> they save from drowning at sea are brought to European shores at a time that European nations are attempting to stop the flow of migrants.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s John Psaropoulous reports from Lesbos, Greece.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty members of the Emergency Response Centre International, or ERCI, in Greece have been charged with trafficking refugees. The accused include a former Olympic swimmer who helped save the lives of 18 people when their boat sank. Private search-and-rescue groups have become controversial as the refugees and asylum seekers they save from drowning at sea&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":15228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}