Greece

Manchester United football player Harry Maguire who was a arrested after a brawl with British tourists and Greek police on Mykonos has been released from jail; his trial is scheduled for Tuesday on Syros island. Maguire and his lawyers appeared...

The authorities on the island of Crete recently found an innovative way to reuse the former jail for the city of Chania, in order to make it useful for society once again. The Cretans managed to convert their disused prison...

A group of inmates attacked and injured convicted terrorist Nikos Maziotis inside his cell at Korydallos prison, in Athens. Maziotis; self-professed leader of the Revolutionary Struggle urban guerrilla group, was transferred to a prison hospital for treatment. He was injured from blows...

A Greek appeals prosecutor has refused to let the Golden Dawn members currently in jail take a furlough in order to participate in their party’s political campaign for the upcoming January 25 elections. The request has been submitted by Golden Dawn leader...

  According to a Ministry of Justice official, the Greek authorities are investigating whether the murder of the prison guard, Giorgos Tsironis, by an inmate at the Malandrino Prison in central Greece, is part of an alleged effort to increase...

Seven convicts serving sentences for a variety of crimes, including drug dealing and human trafficking, escaped from the low-security Feres Prison in northern Greece on March 10, setting police to scramble in a search and set up roadblocks in...

According to president of the Greek correctional officers Spyros Karakitsos, interviewed by the newspaper To Vima, decades of immigrants who have served their sentence imposed by Greek courts remain in prison as "guests" because it is impossible to get deported. Everyone...

Special police forces in Greece have arrived at the country's largest prison, Korydallos, where three people are believed to be held hostage. The Justice Ministry officials said they believed at least one prison guard was taken hostage during visiting hours...

The prosecutor of the Athens Appeals Court in the case of the Golden Dawn party on Tuesday proposed 13-year jail terms for the leadership of the neo-Nazi organization, including its leader Nikos Michaloliakos. Prosecutor Adamantia Economou also proposed life imprisonment...

The founders of Folli Follie, the luxury goods manufacturing and retail company, were led into a Greek jail on Wednesday, pending trial on a number of charges, including fraud, money laundering, market manipulation and forgery. According to the indictment, the...

Manchester United captain Harry Maguire said that "the truth cannot be hidden" after he was sentenced to 21 months in jail by a Greek court on Tuesday. At the same time, his partner accused Greek authorities of lying in...

A North Macedonia citizen spent 11 months in a Greek jail suspected of drug trafficking after Greek police mistook a bag of baking flour he was carrying for heroin. The incredible story of the 38-year-old resident of a village just...

Jailed 25-year-old Nikos Romanos, in prison for attempted robbery and planting a bomb outside the house of a former minister, among others, was released on Wednesday on good behavior after serving six years in jail. Romanos was convicted in 2013...

Turkey criticized Greece on Wednesday for acquitting nine people jailed before a 2017 visit by the Turkish president. They had been accused of plotting a coup while the President was on his visit. Turkey's Foreign Ministry spokesman Hami Aksoy said...

A Greek appeals court on Monday commuted a hospital cleaner's eight-year prison sentence to a three-year suspended sentence. She had originally been given the draconian eight-year penalty for forging her educational record in order to obtain her job. The mother of...