Italy grants asylum to Eritrean man mistaken for years for trafficker

Medhanie Tesfamariam Berhe was put in deportation centre after acquittal but is now free Italian authorities have granted refugee status to an Eritrean man who was the victim of one of the country's most embarrassing cases of mistaken identity. Last month a judge in Palermo acquitted Medhanie Tesfamariam Berhe of being a human trafficking kingpin, confirming he was the victim of mistaken identity when he was arrested more than three years ago in a joint operation by Italian and British authoriti...