Greece
Greece
Coronavirus: Greece Reports 264 New Cases – 2 Minors in ICU
Greece's National Health Organization (EODY) reported 264 new Covid-19 cases on Saturday; 31 people are currently in ICU with two minors among them.
Twenty-nine of the new cases were detected following checks at the country's gateways. The total number of...
Greece
US Sends $2.9 Million To Assist Greek Islands, Unaccompanied Minors
Incoming aid form the United States will aim to improve the living conditions of unaccompanied minors who are migrants to Greece, and to assist the Greek islands as they seek to contain the spread of the coronavirus.
The U.S. government...
Greece
Nearly 5,000 Unaccompanied Minors Currently in Greece, NGOs Say
Some 4,962 unaccompanied minors currently live in Greece, the National Center of Social Solidarity reported on Wednesday, while only one in four are accommodated in humane conditions.
The organizations said at a presentation that the main problems these children face...
Greece
Greek Police Remove Minors From "Joker" Screenings at Athens Cinemas
Greek police removed minors from two cinemas screening the blockbuster movie "Joker" over the weekend.
The newly-released film has an "R," or Restricted, rating for its violence and disturbing content.
According to a spokesman for the Greek police, the interventions followed...
Crime
Greek Former MP, Diplomat and Educator Found Guilty of Sexual Abuse of Minors
A Greek court handed down a 28-month suspended sentence on Tuesday to Nikos Georgiadis a former conservative MP, diplomat and vice president of the American College of Greece, who was found guilty of the sexual abuse of minors in...
Crime
Reports of Physical and Sexual Harassment of Minors on the Rise in Greece
The Hellenic Society of Forensic Medicine and Piraeus Forensic Service presented the findings of a survey on Monday regarding the incidence of physical and sexual harassment in Greece.
According to the survey's findings, there has been an increase in the...
Crime
Greek Police Arrest Underage Gang Who were Robbing Minors
Hellenic Police (ELAS) have dismantled a gang of minors, who were robbing other minors in the Athens subway.
Police officers of the DIAS unit arrested three Greek nationals - with two minors among them - and a 23-year-old Afghan national...
Greece
Migrants Help Rescue 3 People in Drowning Car on Lesvos, 2 Minors Drown
Two teenagers drowned while another three people were rescued by migrants and fishermen, as their car plunged off a quay at the Mytilene Port on Lesvos, early on Monday.
The car swerved and fell off a quay at 3:30 am...
Greece
Doctors of the World Urge Separate Accommodation for Unaccompanied Minors
The Greek division of Doctors of the World (MdM-Greece) urged the government and other involved groups to put an end to the matter of unaccompanied minors being held at Moria's detention camp at Lesvos (Mytilene). A press release by...
Greece
Fights in Migrant Camp in Greece Leave Five Minors Injured
Violent fights between ethnic groups of minors broke out at the Moria migrant registration center on Lesvos, leaving five underage migrants injured.
About 3,500 refugees and migrants are at the 2,000-capacity registration center, including many women and children. The mix...
Crime
Police Brutality Shown to Unaccompanied Refugee Minors in Greece
Doctors Without Borders have reported violence at the Reception and Identification Center of Morias at Lesbos. The case came to light when 12 Pakistani minors visited the medical center on June 24, accompanied by the center's chief for an...
Greece
IOM Report on Unaccompanied Minors: Heart-Wrenching Case Studies
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) published a report in Greece, titled Addressing the Needs of Unaccompanied Minors", based on interviews with 1,206 child migrants traveling alone in Greece. 508 of those interviewed said they would not want to...
Crime
52 Year-Old Man Arrested for Abusing Two Minors
Two underage girls from the Greek island Rhodes spoke to the Greek police and accused a 52 year-old man of sexually harassing them.
The man was arrested on Wednesday late in the afternoon on the accusations of felony and illegal...
Greece
Golden Dawn Recruits Minors
Controversial photographs found in the possession of Golden Dawn MPs have caused major reactions, after disclosure by Counter Terrorism police. The police found the images on the personal computers and USB drives of a number of MPs. Despite their...
Diaspora
The Incredible Stories of Thousands of Greek Orphans Taken Abroad
Tens of thousands of ethnically-Greek orphans -- or, more often, children who were simply without fathers, due to war or other causes -- were taken abroad