Kerry humanitarian says Greece smuggling trial ‘deeply damaging to the EU’

The Kerryman is one of 24 migrant rescue volunteers on the Greek island of Lesbos charged in 2018 with a range of offences

A group of Afghan refugees arrive in Lesbos from Turkey by rubber raft in a cove filled with debris from previous arrivals (Alamy/PA)

An Irish humanitarian has said his trial in Greece over smuggling-related charges is “deeply damaging” to the European Union.

Seán Binder said the trial was “an attack on the idea of human rights and the rule of law” but added he was confident of being found innocent in a fairly run trial.