Solidarity on Trial in Greece

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Protesters hold signs outside a Greek court in Mytilene, January 13, 2023, in support of 24 activists who were prosecuted for helping rescue migrants and asylum seekers in the Mediterranean Sea. © 2023 MANOLIS LAGOUTARIS/AFP via Getty Images Two dozen humanitarian workers face trial on the Greek island of Lesbos this week on baseless felony charges that carry 20 years in prison. Prosecutors have hounded the humanitarians for seven years for saving lives at sea, while the European Parliament has called this “the largest case of criminalization of solidarity in…

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