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UN, EU ask Greece to stop prosecuting migrant rescue groups

The human rights arms of the United Nations and the European Union have called on Greece to stop criminalizing pro-refugee non-profit groups. Both the U.N. and E.U. say targeting humanitarian groups with prosecutions is having a chilling effect on the efforts to save asylum seekers at sea. Special correspondent Malcolm Brabant reports.