Tribulations of Syrian volunteer accused of migrant smuggling continue

Syrian Olympic swimmer Yusra Mardini was in Buenos Aires a few weeks ago, where she was named a role model in the 2018 Summer Youth Olympic Games.

The trip had been in the works for a while and she was excited about it, yet her mind was in Athens, and specifically Korydallos Prison, where her sister Sarah is in pretrial custody on charges of participating in an illegal migrant smuggling network while she was working as a volunteer with refugees on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos.

On the first day of events at the Games, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach invited Yusra to attend a fencing competition with him. "How is Sarah?" he asked with genuine concern.

The story of the two girls who in 2015 rescued 18 fellow refugees on the treacherous crossing from Turkey to Greece when their boat capsized made headlines around the world, and...