Sara is living in Germany, where she was granted asylum. A trial in November was postponed and the inquiry is still ongoing. Sara spent more than 100 days in jail but her arrest was dubbed farcical and she was backed by Amnesty International. Sara returned to Greece to help other migrants arriving by sea but in 2018 she and 23 other humanitarian workers were arrested on a number of human-smuggling charges. The schoolgirls settled in Berlin, with their parents who also escaped Syria, where Yusra continued her swimming training and competed in the 100m freestyle and the 100m butterfly at the 2016 Rio Olympics under the flag of the IOC Refugee Olympics team. Sara injured her shoulder on the journey and was forced to give up her swimming career.

The sisters and two others who could swim ended up swimming alongside the boat to stop it sinking until they reached Lesbos. Avatar: The Last Airbender Live Action New Voice Cast Additions Strange World Full Trailer Welcome to Demon School Iruma-kun Season 3 Premieres October 8th Bleach TYBW premieres on Hulu on Oct 10. When they got to Turkey they paid to be smuggled into Greece on a dinghy but the overcrowded vessel failed in the middle of the Aegean Sea. (Image credit: Laura Radford/Netflix) The true story behind Netflix movie The SwimmersĪfter growing up in a suburb of Damascus, Yusra and her older sister Sara Mardini fled Syria in August 2015 after their home was destroyed. Nathalie Issa as Yusra Mardini, Manal Issa as Sara Mardini, Ahmed Malek as Nizar in The Swimmers.

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