The trial of 24 aid workers involved in refugee rescues began on the Greek island of Lesbos and was immediately adjourned amid calls from rights groups that authorities drop the charges of spying and disclosing state secrets
LESBOS, Greece, Nov 18 - The trial of 24 aid workers involved in refugee rescues began on the Greek island of Lesbos on Thursday and was immediately adjourned amid calls from rights groups that authorities drop the "absurd" charges of spying and disclosing state secrets.
As well as Binder, police arrested Sarah Mardini, a Syrian swimmer who took an overcrowded dinghy to Greece with her sister Yusra in 2015 and saved the other 19 passengers by pulling their sinking boat to shore for four hours. "It's a trial we never wanted to see happening because these people are facing trumped up charges, absurd charges," said Giorgos Kosmopoulos, a senior campaigner for Amnesty.
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