“Dead silence”: Witnesses report in BBC documentary how Greek coast guard threw migrants overboard and killed them

We speak to the producer of a devastating exposé on the deadly actions of the Greek authorities against asylum seekers. A new BBC Investigations reveal evidence that the Greek coast guard abducted asylum seekers and abandoned them in the Mediterranean. Thousands of people, mainly from Africa and the Middle East, have died trying to reach Europe. Dead silence: Killing in the Mediterranean? notes that over a three-year period, the Greek Coast Guard caused the deaths of up to 43 migrants in the Mediterranean Sea – including nine asylum seekers who had reached Greek soil but were taken back to sea by the Greek Coast Guard and then thrown overboard.