{"id":85179,"date":"2026-02-19T08:55:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T08:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=85179"},"modified":"2026-02-19T08:55:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T08:55:40","slug":"pay-or-he-dies-the-deadly-price-of-hope-for-egypts-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/19\/pay-or-he-dies-the-deadly-price-of-hope-for-egypts-migrants\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Pay or he dies&#8217;: The deadly price of hope for Egypt&#8217;s migrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1WAwA7.img?w=534&amp;h=300&amp;m=6&amp;x=326&amp;y=128&amp;s=243&amp;d=243\" alt=\"Ali Elwan of Egypt, a survivor of the Pylos shipwreck, poses a photo following an interview with The Associated Press, in Athens, Saturday June 7, 2024.\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The call came from Libya: pay $4,000 immediately, or the boy dies at sea. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/pay-or-he-dies-the-deadly-price-of-hope-for-egypt-s-migrants\/ar-AA1WAITb?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&amp;cvid=64cf5d4dd0f44938b09e50b0a69ae46e&amp;ei=32\">Read More<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The call came from Libya: pay $4,000 immediately, or the boy dies at sea. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/migrants-on-boats.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85180,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85179\/revisions\/85180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}