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Health Issues Put off Skordeli's Trial

Former Golden Dawn candidate Themis Evangelia K. Skordeli will stand trial for a series of violations including forgery, intellectual property violations and racist attacks. However, her trial has been postponed eight times, since she submits medical notes claiming to...

Greek Cops Grilled Over Golden Dawn

Known to have strong ties and sympathies for the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party that the government is trying to take apart in court, the Greek police force is under the spotlight too with reports that hundreds of officers have...

Golden Dawn Suspect in Commie Attack in Court

As the Greek government tries to dismantle the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party through legal means, arresting its hierarchy on an array of criminal charges, one of its members was due in court on Oct. 4 after being arrested on...

Michaloliakos Settled in Women's Wing

On October 4, Golden Dawn leader Nikos Michaloliakos arrived at around five in the afternoon at the Korydallos Prison Complex. Michaloliakos is detained on the charges of directing a criminal organization. Golden Dawn MP Giannis Lagos was also led to...

Golden Dawners Don't Stand By Their Men

After jubilation with the release of three of its Members of Parliament from pre-trial detention, the followers of Golden Dawn felt disappointment when the neo-Nazi party's leader, Nikolaos Michaloliakos, and number two man, Christos Pappas, were sent to jail,...

Golden Dawn's No. 2 Jailed Too

After appearing in court on Oct. 3, Christos Pappas, the second-in-command of the Greek neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, was remanded in custody, joining his leader, Nikolaos Michaloliakos and another Member of Parliament, Yannis Lagos, who were being held in...

Tsipras Says Golden Dawn Criminal Gang

Greece's major opposition party Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) leader Alexis Tsipras - while denying that his party has fomented violence and egged on anarchists against the government - refused to comment on the release from custody of...

Golden Dawn Leader Nikos Michaloliakos Jailed Pending Trial

Nikos Michaloliakos, the leader of the far-right Golden Dawn party was jailed on charges of belonging to a criminal group, officials said on Thursday. Michaloliakos will be awaiting trial in jail contrary to Golden Dawn MP's Ilias Kasidiaris and Ilias Panayotaors...

Released Golden Dawn MP's Claim Victory

Three senior lawmakers from Greece’s neo-Nazi Golden Dawn who were released from pre-trial detention while facing an array of charges including murder, extortion and money laundering stormed out in anger, with one of them, party spokesman, punching and kicking...

Kasidiaris Assaults and Threatens Journalists

Four Golden Dawn MP's were set free today. Elias Kasidiaris, Elias Panagiotaros and Nikos Michos were released on bail. Their withdrawal from Evelpidon Court was undoubtedly really provocative. Kasidiaris started yelling and assaulting Greek journalists who were standing outside...