{"id":4180,"date":"2026-11-11T10:03:49","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T05:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4180"},"modified":"2026-11-11T10:03:49","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T05:03:49","slug":"pakistani-migrant-among-112-foreigners-died-in-greek-custody-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4180","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani migrant among 112 foreigners died in Greek custody: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"
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More than 100 foreign nationals have died since 2000 \u200cin Greek police stations or migrant centres with inadequate healthcare facilities, including 34 deaths that have not been officially registered, according to research published on Tuesday by Oxford University researchers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In total, the research found \u200b112 deaths in the 26-year period, including 44 suicides.<\/p>\n

Of the 112 deaths, \u200b84 occurred in police stations without medical staff, and 27 were reported \u2060in migrant detention facilities.<\/p>\n

The Greek government and the police ministry did not immediately respond to \u200ba request for comment.<\/p>\n

The dataset, part of an ongoing project that monitors deaths of foreign \u200bnationals in detention, including those held on criminal grounds, draws on police statistics obtained through freedom of information requests, international monitoring reports, media and testimonies.<\/p>\n

The findings reveal \u201cgaps in official police records and serious barriers \u200bto healthcare, including in facilities receiving EU funding,\u201d the report\u2019s authors said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u200bThey said 34 deaths documented by journalists, NGOs and monitors were not included in the police statistics.<\/p>\n

The \u200cdata, \u2060published on the research platform Detention Landscapes, reflects complaints by human rights groups and follows a 2026 report by the Council of Europe\u2019s anti-torture committee (CPT).<\/p>\n

The report said that deaths in police custody in Greece had increased and some could have been prevented with sufficient supervision, \u200bpsychiatric care and healthcare.<\/p>\n

Among \u200bthe cases it examined \u2060was the death of a 37-year-old Pakistani migrant<\/u><\/a> while in detention at an Athens police station.<\/p>\n

The CPT also cited persistent overcrowding in prison \u200bcells, including five people in spaces meant for one, and detainees \u200bsleeping on \u2060concrete or bedbug-infested mattresses.<\/p>\n

Greece, long a landing point for migrants trying to enter the European Union from Africa, Asia and the Middle East, told the CPT that it was taking steps \u2060to address \u200bdeficiencies under a 2025-2030 action plan to improve detention \u200bconditions, protect prisoners\u2019 rights, boost staff and ease prison overcrowding, a problem in over 60% of countries worldwide, according \u200bto a 2024 UN report.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More than 100 foreign nationals have died since 2000 \u200cin Greek police stations or migrant centres with inadequate healthcare facilities, including 34 deaths that have not been officially registered, according to research published on Tuesday by Oxford University researchers. In total, the research found \u200b112 deaths in the 26-year period, including 44 suicides. Of the 112 deaths, \u200b84 occurred in police stations without medical staff, and 27 were reported \u2060in migrant detention facilities. The Greek government and the police ministry did not immediately respond to \u200ba request for comment. The…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}