ISLAMABAD — Research published by the University of Oxford on Tuesday found that 13 Pakistani nationals had died in Greek detention since 2000. The archive, published on Detention Landscapes in English, Greek and Arabic, adds to long-standing efforts elsewhere to document border and immigration control-related deaths where reliable government data is not available.
The report said that at least 112 foreign nationals in total had died in police and immigration detention facilities in Greece since 2000, with authorities failing to maintain a reliable public record of the deaths. Read: Greece detains around 200 migrants Oxford researchers find 34 of 112 foreign national deaths in Greek custody since 2000 missing from police statisticshttps://t.co/EnIXfvOkYS — Türkiye Today (@turkiyetodaycom) November 10, 2026 According to the study, Pakistani and Albanian nationals accounted for the largest identified groups by nationality, with 13 deaths each. The nationality of 32 individuals was not specified.
The findings, based on police data obtained through Freedom of Information requests, reports by international monitoring bodies, media archives and interviews with formerly detained people, document deaths in police stations and immigration detention facilities across the country. Since Greece opened its first pre-removal detention centre in 2012, at least 27 deaths have been reported in t