Aid workers cleared of human trafficking charges in Greece
Their case was widely criticised by aid agencies and human rights campaigners as an attempt to criminalise humanitarian aid, and was seen as having profound implications for migration policy across Europe.
They had worked for an NGO that rescued asylum-seekers at risk of drowning between 2015 to 2018, when hundreds of thousands of migrants crossed the narrow straits from Turkey to Greece.
The 24 former volunteers were arrested seven years ago - accused of human trafficking and other offences - and could have fa
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