{"id":12595,"date":"2024-05-21T15:00:19","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T12:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/?p=12595"},"modified":"2024-05-21T15:00:19","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T12:00:19","slug":"charges-dropped-against-nine-men-over-2023-migrant-shipwreck-off-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/?p=12595","title":{"rendered":"Charges dropped against nine men over 2023 migrant shipwreck off Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/charges-dropped-against-nine-men-over-2023-migrant-shipwreck-off-greece.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Charges were dropped on Tuesday against nine Egyptian men accused of causing one of the Mediterranean\u2019s deadliest shipwrecks off\u00a0Greece\u00a0last year, after a Greek court said it had no jurisdiction to hear the case because the disaster occurred in international waters.<\/p>\n<div class=\"cypru-video-ads\" id=\"cypru-2111328713\">\n<div id=\"cypru-114179521\" data-cypru-trackid=\"478051\" data-cypru-trackbid=\"1\" class=\"cypru-target\">\n<div id=\"gpt-ad-2592669313433-0\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Up to 700 migrants from Pakistan, Syria and Egypt boarded a fishing trawler in Libya that was bound for Italy before sinking off the coast of Pylos, in southwestern\u00a0Greece, on June 14.<br \/>\nSome 104 survivors were rescued and only 82 bodies were recovered.<br \/>\nThe men, aged between 21 and 41, were arrested hours after the boat sank and have remained in pre-trial detention since on charges of migrant smuggling, causing a shipwreck and participating in a criminal organization.<br \/>\nThey have denied any wrongdoing.<br \/>\n\u201cThis is a great victory for human rights in\u00a0Greece,\u201d Spyros Pantazis, one of their lawyers, told Reuters.<br \/>\n\u201cNine innocent men are walking free. 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