While you were snug at home, watching a football game or your favorite TV show in the United States in December, 2020 – while the coronavirus was raging – Hanad Abdi Mohammad was trying to save the lives of 31 refugees off the coast of Lesbos.
He grabbed the wheel of a boat abandoned by a Turkish
The criminal court of the Greek island of Lesbos announced Monday during an appeal procedure the release within a month of a Somali, sentenced in 2021 to 142 years in prison for migrant smuggling.
A Somali migrant serving life in prison for people smuggling appeared in court Monday to appeal his sentence, in a case backed by a group of European Parliament members who say he was wrongfully convicted. Mohammad Hanad Abdi was sentenced to 142 years in prison in 2021 after being convicted following a deadly crossing in…
A Greek court has ordered the release of a Somali migrant who had been sentenced to life in prison for human smuggling. The case has highlighted harsh sentencing guidelines in Greece introduced in recent years as part of an effort to fight irregular migration.
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