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Search-and-rescue workers acquitted of human trafficking charges in Greece

Seán Binder, Sarah Mardini and more than 20 other humanitarian workers were acquitted yesterday by a court in Mytilene, on the Greek island of Lesbos, of charges related to facilitating the illegal entry of migrants into Greece.

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Belgian Court of Appeal Confirms Politically Motivated Nature of Kazakhstan’s Mutual Legal Assistance Request in the Jardemalie Case

On 16 December 2025, the Indictments Chamber of the Brussels Court of Appeal delivered a landmark ruling in the case of Ms Botagoz Jardemalie, a Kazakh political refugee and lawyer. The Court concluded that the request for Mutual Legal Assistance (MLA) submitted by the Republic of Kazakhstan was politically motivated, recognising that it formed part of a broader pattern of transnational repression directed at Ms Jardemalie by the Kazakh authorities.

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