Athens, Greece – Four Afghan asylum seekers convicted of starting a fire that burned a sprawling Greek refugee camp to the ground are expecting a court decision on their appeal trial.
All residents of Moria at the time, the defendants are now aged 18, 20, 20 and 23. They were officially blamed in June 2021 for the fire that ravaged the camp on the island of Lesbos in a trial their lawyers say was replete with procedural errors. They have been held in two different prisons on the Greek mainland since 2020.
