{"id":26029218,"date":"2018-10-15T13:14:10","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T10:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/article-news247-victims-of-torture\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T11:25:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T09:25:45","slug":"article-news247-victims-of-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/article-news247-victims-of-torture\/","title":{"rendered":"Few are aware of the high percentage of victims of torture among the refugees arriving in Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/metadrasi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Certification_Victims_of_torture.jpg\" alt=\"Metadrasi -\" title=\"Metadrasi -\">In some cases, entire families may have been subjected to torture. Maryam and Ahmed from Syria were tortured by extremists, who also mutilated their two-year old daughter, Arwa, because her crying was \u201cannoying\u201d them. 24-year-old Azer from Congo was forced to watch the execution of his father and the rape of his sister.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, such stories are not the exception, but a considerable part of the cases examined by METAdrasi&#8217;s team of experts in &#8220;Investigation and Certification of Victims of Torture&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Since March 2018, with the support of European Commission\u2019s Civil Protection &amp; Humanitarian Aid Operations Department (ECHO), more than 150 people were certified in Athens as Victims of Torture, while nearly 1,000 people were certified since the beginning of the activity, in September 2011.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news247.gr\/koinonia\/thymata-vasanistirion-i-atheati-pleyra-toy-prosfygikoy.6656466.html?fbclid=IwAR0VZzJC-tuLHFmbUipBkaGYmXFXvzYW83B5jIohsuozjL4WH-3RP-r6YAI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Visit the article of\u00a0 News247.gr (in Greek)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nYou may read the text in english here: <a href=\"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/pr-victims-of-torture?fbclid=IwAR2hyucyKG0S7JKfKhwVZFcEJs8tWzAqtabTcwdV86b60XamuSAKFRuhzdI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;-U&quot;}\" data-lynx-mode=\"asynclazy\" data-lynx-uri=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmetadrasi.org%2Fen%2Fpr-victims-of-torture%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2hyucyKG0S7JKfKhwVZFcEJs8tWzAqtabTcwdV86b60XamuSAKFRuhzdI&amp;h=AT1TSOjuWcf5iNADRiT0s9vBzVRTTc6skvL20FA8o1V4JIFD7HLghSu6huegEkyLD0Q67vTU3MA508CJe3e7-K-XLiHERISUnlk7DMKiBEvcA5T5-aRzH9TQiEb7bTdub9o08Q\">metadrasi.org\/en\/pr-victims-of-torture<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"profileLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ec.humanitarian.aid\/?eid=ARAE1oXaD-1PnQMHrm6imtH4cQ_2WOriIwHDZk_AUSzX4Q7J9S14Z6zVkBEYziwtGPlSfzS05gYjMULw&amp;fref=tag\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/page.php?id=146955527905&amp;extragetparams=%7B%22eid%22%3A%22ARAE1oXaD-1PnQMHrm6imtH4cQ_2WOriIwHDZk_AUSzX4Q7J9S14Z6zVkBEYziwtGPlSfzS05gYjMULw%22%2C%22fref%22%3A%22tag%22%7D\" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">European Commission &#8211; Civil Protection &amp; Humanitarian Aid Operations &#8211; ECHO<\/a> <a class=\"_58cn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/evidence_of_torture?source=feed_text\" data-ft=\"{&quot;type&quot;:104,&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;*N&quot;}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><span class=\"_5afx\"><span class=\"_58cl _5afz\" aria-label=\"hashtag\">#<\/span><span class=\"_58cm\">Evidence_of_Torture<\/span><\/span><\/a> <a class=\"_58cn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/torturevictims?source=feed_text\" data-ft=\"{&quot;type&quot;:104,&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;*N&quot;}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><span class=\"_5afx\"><span class=\"_58cl _5afz\" aria-label=\"hashtag\">#<\/span><span class=\"_58cm\">TortureVictims<\/span><\/span><\/a> <a class=\"_58cn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/refugees?source=feed_text\" data-ft=\"{&quot;type&quot;:104,&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;*N&quot;}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><span class=\"_5afx\"><span class=\"_58cl _5afz\" aria-label=\"hashtag\">#<\/span><span class=\"_58cm\">refugees<\/span><\/span><\/a> <a class=\"_58cn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/solidarity?source=feed_text\" data-ft=\"{&quot;type&quot;:104,&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;*N&quot;}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><span class=\"_5afx\"><span class=\"_58cl _5afz\" aria-label=\"hashtag\">#<\/span><span class=\"_58cm\">solidarity<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/article-news247-victims-of-torture\">Maryam and Ahmed from Syria were tortured&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,126],"tags":[601],"dipi_cpt_category":[],"class_list":["post-26029218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-press-room-en","tag-certification-of-victims-of-torture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26029218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26029218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26029218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26029218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26029218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26029218"},{"taxonomy":"dipi_cpt_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dipi_cpt_category?post=26029218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}