A Norwegian appeals court has unanimously rejected Greece's request to extradite Tommy Olsen, founder of the NGO the Aegean Boat Report, ruling that his activities — monitoring migrant vessels, documenting rights violations, and assisting asylum procedures — were lawful and protected under international human rights treaties. Olsen had been arrested in March in Tromsø (Norway's Arctic regional capital) following a European arrest warrant from Greece, which accused him of running a criminal organisation to smuggle people into the country; his lawyers and rights groups including Amnesty International argued the charges amounted to a misuse of anti-smuggling laws intended to silence migrant solidarity activists. Human Rights Watch called on Athens to revoke the arrest warrant, warning that Olsen remains at risk of politically motivated prosecution while Greek charges remain in force — a concern amplified by a Greek law passed in February that empowers authorities to dissolve NGOs and impose prison terms of at least ten years on aid workers found guilty of facilitating the movement of migrants across the country's borders.