Kerry lawyer due in court on people smuggling charges after trying to rescue refugees from sea

Kerry humanitarian and lawyer Seán Binder faces trial in Greece on people smuggling and criminal organisation charges linked to 2018 Lesvos rescue work

Seán Binder answers journalists' questions outside the court of Mytilene in the island of Lesbos on November 18, 2021. File picture: Manolis Lagoutaris/AFP via Getty Images

A Kerry humanitarian and lawyer is due in court on Thursday on people smuggling and other criminal charges after trying to rescue refugees from drowning in the sea.

Seán Binder is one of 24 defendants charged in connection with efforts to save refugees from drowning off the Greek island of Lesvos in 2018.