‘Speak out against pushbacks, you’re an enemy of Greece,’ says refugee hero

Iasonas Apostolopoulos was due to be awarded a medal but as views on migrants in Greece shifted he now gets death threats

Once lauded as a Greek hero, Iasonas Apostolopoulos has seen the effects of being on the wrong side of his government’s policies around the illegal pushbacks on its borders, accused by the prime minister’s office of “insulting Greece”.

“If love of country means accepting the killing of refugees on our border, then I’m proud to be a traitor,” he says.

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