{"id":12365,"date":"2019-12-22T16:00:08","date_gmt":"2019-12-22T07:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2019\/dec\/22\/blood-on-the-ground-at-croatia-borders-as-brutal-policing-persists"},"modified":"2019-12-22T16:00:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T07:00:08","slug":"blood-on-the-ground-at-croatias-borders-as-brutal-policing-persists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12365","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Blood on the ground\u2019 at Croatia\u2019s borders as brutal policing persists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While heavy snow makes life unbearable for migrants, a dangerous nightly \u2018game\u2019 has led to alleged assault and injury<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photography by Alessio Mamo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a room in the intensive therapy unit of a hospital in the port city of Rijeka, Croatia, Farouk fights for his life.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old Afghan has life-threatening injuries to his thorax and abdomen. On 16 November, in the woods around Tuhobi\u0107, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2019\/11\/18\/migrant-shot-by-croatian-police-in-mountains-near-slovenian-border\">a Croatian police officer shot Farouk<\/a> \u2013 who, with dozens of other migrants, was attempting to cross the border with Slovenia.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2019\/dec\/22\/blood-on-the-ground-at-croatia-borders-as-brutal-policing-persists\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While heavy snow makes life unbearable for migrants, a dangerous nightly \u2018game\u2019 has led to alleged assault and injuryPhotography by Alessio MamoIn a room in the intensive therapy unit of a hospital in the port city of Rijeka, Croatia, Farouk fights for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":793,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,1009,1008,221,59,491,640,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-bosnia-herzegovina","category-croatia","category-europe","category-global-development","category-migration","category-migration-and-development","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/793"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12366,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12365\/revisions\/12366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}