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17 Nov, 8 tweets, 5 min read
#dropthecharges 🧵

@frhumanitarians volunteers @sean_binder_, @SarahMardini4 and Nassos Karakitsos go on trial in Lesvos tomorrow, Thursday 18 November for ‘espionage’.

They face up to 8 years in prison.
theguardian.com/world/2021/nov…
Working to rescue refugees in the Aegean and as first responders onshore, they are accused for listening to coastguard radio and exchanging WhatsApp messages.
Arrested and held for 4 months in 2018 before getting bail, they are also accused of being in a criminal organisation & facilitating illegal entry, charges still being investigated.
Read about their case in the IRR’s 2019 report on criminalisation of solidarity networks in Europe
irr.org.uk/app/uploads/20…
They are among dozens of human rights defenders prosecuted for their solidarity work.
irr.org.uk/app/uploads/20…
Human Rights Watch (@hrw) said the charges ‘appear no more than an effort to criminalise humanitarian activism on behalf of refugees and migrants in Greece’.
hrw.org/news/2018/11/0…
The Greek coastguard meanwhile is accused of illegal pushbacks of refugees’ boats, which appear to have become routine.
theguardian.com/global-develop…
Follow @FrHumanitarians and join the call in this open letter to #DropTheCharges against Seán, Sarah, Nassos and 21 others.
docs.google.com/document/d/1HE…

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