Video: Activists grab boat's anchor chain in effort to halt refugee deportations

Greece has resumed deportations of refugees and migrants from its islands to Turkey after a four-day pause, sending back 124 people on two boats from Lesbos to a port on the Turkish coast.

Video: Activists grab boat's anchor chain in effort to halt refugee deportations

Greece has resumed deportations of refugees and migrants from its islands to Turkey after a four-day pause, sending back 124 people on two boats from Lesbos to a port on the Turkish coast.

Before the first boat left the island, four activists jumped into the sea to try to obstruct the operation - swimming to the front of the chartered ferry and grabbing the anchor chain - and were detained by the Coastguard.

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