Greece

Giorgos Roupakias, the 45-year-old member of the Golden Dawn neo-Nazi party who is charged with killing 34-year-old hop artist Pavlos Fyssas in Keratsini on Sept. 17, was expected to be transferred to Malandrino Prison in central Greece on...

The 37 members of the neo-Nazi party golden Dawn who were convicted in October will be transported to prison on Friday. The convicts were held at police headquarters in Athens after the court upheld their prison sentences on Thursday, rejecting...

Thirteen prison guards allegedly implicated in the murder of an Albanian prisoner named Ilia Kareli are to face charges of aggravated torture resulting in his death, following a decision by judges in Serres. Ilia Kareli was found dead in his...

A Parliamentary debate over a bill introducing reforms to Greece's prison system and the creation of "type C" maximum-security cells caused a fierce conflict between the Public Order Minister Haralambos Athanasiou and left-wing opposition party SYRIZA. The bill was voted on Tuesday...

Six out of the eight prison guards from Nigrita prison, in northern Greece, who on Tuesday appeared before the Greek court and apologized for the torture and death of the Albanian prisoner Ilia Kareli will remain in custody. The six...

The investigator of Serres, in Northern Greece has called on fifteen Nigrita prison guards to enter their plea on Saturday, April 5, as part of the main interrogation being conducted concerning the case of the 42-year-old lifer Ili Kareli. The...

Greek authorities are just a step away from arresting the prison guards responsible for beating Albanian lifer, Ilia Kareli to death while he was in solitary confinement at Nigrita Prison, in Serres. The Greek prosecutor in Amfissa who is in...

Greek coroners determined Friday that Ilia Kareli, the Albanian convict who killed a Greek prison guard, died of a heart attack after sustaining multiple injuries, including a fractured sternum caused by a baton, and possible torture. Kareli, 42, was found unconscious in his cell...

Ilia Kareli, the Albanian inmate, at the Malandrino prison, in Central Greece was found dead inside his cell, on Thursday March 27. On Tuesday, the prisoner of Albanian origin had murdered the 46 year-old prison guard, Giorgos Tsironis. Following the...

A guard at a Greek prison was fatally stabbed by an Albanian inmate on Tuesday, state agency ANA said. The incident at Malandrino prison, central Greece, came as the government finalized plans for a new high-security prison, a move strongly...

Alket Rizaj, a convicted Albanian contract killer who took hostage six guards at Maladrino Prison in Central Greece on March 16 and held them nearly 24 hours in a bid to escape jail for a third time, surrendered late...

Alket Rijai, a well-known Albanian convicted murderer took prison employees hostage at a central Greece jail late Saturday.  Rijai has been incarcerated in the Malandrino jail since 2003 after being convected of murder. The convict clams that he has explosives, including...

A day following the proclamation sent by the Greek terrorist organization “Conspiracy of Cells of Fire” claiming responsibility for the parcel bomb which was sent to the Itea Police Station in central Greece on April 29, Greek police authorities...

The terrorist organization "Conspiracy of Cells of Fire"  claimed responsibility for the parcel bomb which was sent to the Itea Police Station, central Greece, on April 29. According to the organization's proclamation, posted on the website Contra Info, the parcel-bomb...

Greek police have said a package containing an improvised explosive device was sent to the police station in Itea, central Greece, without any warning. Bomb-disposal units were despatched to the area to identify the parcel. Itea police officers have been prosecuted for the death of...