The Pro Asyl charity in Germany has called for the dismissal of the trial against three young migrants accused of terrorism in Malta.
The migrants from Guinea and Ivory Coast were rescued in the Central Mediterranean in 2019 by a freighter, which brought them to Malta, according to Infomigrants website.
Pro Asyl says that three young migrants in Malta continue to face life imprisonment charges because they resisted the prospect of being returned to Libya alongside more than 100 refugees.
The organization stressed that the case against the three youths, known as the “El Hiblu 3” after the ship they were rescued by, El Hiblu, has been ongoing for three and a half years now. Two of them were minors at the time.
The most recent trial day on Thursday has thus far failed to yield any new findings either, Pro Asyl added.
“Prosecutor Victoria Buttigieg would have the opportunity to end the shameful proceedings or at least drop the terrorism charges,” Karl Kopp, head of Pro Asyl’s Europe department, told the EPD news agency.