{"id":26030407,"date":"2018-11-19T14:34:56","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T12:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/tortures\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T11:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T09:24:09","slug":"tortures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/tortures\/","title":{"rendered":"Tortures: inhuman physical and psychological abuse as a means to punish, intimidate, interrogate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u03a0\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u03c0\u03bf\u03af\u03b7\u03c3\u03b7 \u0398\u03c5\u03bc\u03ac\u03c4\u03c9\u03bd \u0392\u03b1\u03c3\u03b1\u03bd\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03b7\u03c1\u03af\u03c9\u03bd | \u03a1\u03b1\u03b4\u03b9\u03bf\u03c6\u03c9\u03bd\u03b9\u03ba\u03ae \u03a3\u03c5\u03bd\u03ad\u03bd\u03c4\u03b5\u03c5\u03be\u03b7 \u03c4\u03b7\u03c2 \u0399\u03c9\u03ac\u03bd\u03bd\u03b1\u03c2 \u039c\u03c0\u03b1\u03bc\u03c0\u03b1\u03c3\u03af\u03ba\u03b1\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aRSng_2udIM?start=214&#038;feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>Our country has experienced this extreme form of violence during the dictatorship. Nevertheless, even today, in many places of the world, tortures continue to exist as a practice of power enforcement and degrading treatment, with the methods of torture evolving, so that it becomes more and more difficult to diagnose them.<\/p>\n<p>How can METAdrasi\u2019s interdisciplinary team identify the thousands of torture survivors among the refugees arriving in Greece and what kind of support can be offered to these individuals?<\/p>\n<p>Ioanna Babassika, METAdrasi\u2019s vice president and an expert on \u201cIdentification and Certification of Victims of Torture\u201d, talks to Athina 9.84* about this important activity that is being implemented by METAdrasi with the valuable support of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/gr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">UNHCR<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/echo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">European Commission\u2019s Civil Protection &amp; Humanitarian Aid Operations Department (ECHO)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>*At the link you may listen to the interview in Greek as well as read extracts in English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/tortures\">Our country has experienced this extreme form of violence&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":387976,"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":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"dipi_cpt_category":[],"class_list":["post-26030407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26030407","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26030407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26030407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26030407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26030407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26030407"},{"taxonomy":"dipi_cpt_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dipi_cpt_category?post=26030407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}