{"id":80525,"date":"2025-07-30T14:44:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T14:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/greece-warns-of-invasion-as-it-halts-asylum-on-med-route-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T14:44:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T14:44:17","slug":"greece-warns-of-invasion-as-it-halts-asylum-on-med-route-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/greece-warns-of-invasion-as-it-halts-asylum-on-med-route-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Greece warns of \u2018invasion\u2019 as it halts asylum on Med route | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greece has started detaining all migrants who arrive on small boats from northern Africa and denying them the right to <!--more--> apply for asylum.<\/p>\n<p>The new migration minister, Thanos Plevris, said the measure was justified, for three months initially, because the island of Crete has seen a surge in arrivals from Libya at the height of tourist season.<\/p>\n<p>Human rights lawyers have criticised the move.<\/p>\n<p>The right for anyone to request protection, or asylum, is inscribed in EU and international law and in the constitution of Greece itself.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#Greece #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greece has started detaining all migrants who arrive on small boats from northern Africa and denying them the right to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}