Amnesty International
Crime
Greece Probes Boat Sinking Abuse Charges
Merchant Marine Minister Militadis Varvitsiotis has denied accusations by migrants who survived the capsizing of a boat full of immigrants that it was being dragged back to Turkey at full speed, not to safety, and that Coast Guard officials...
Crime
Amnesty Blasts Monk Mocker Conviction
The conviction and 10-month suspended sentence for a Greek blogger who mocked a respected monk should cause "serious concern," the human rights group Amnesty International said, expressing its reservations over the prosecution of the man for creating a parody...
Greece
Council of Europe Asks Greece to Stop Collective Expulsions of Immigrants
Nils Muiznieks, Europe's Council Commissioner for Human Rights has complained about Greece's migrant policy and has asked Greek authorities to end the collective expulsions of immigrants.
The council's official website hosted a letter sent by the commissioner to the Greek Public Order...
Crime
Greek Police Chief Accused by Amnesty International of Racist Comments
Amnesty International has called on the Greek government to investigate allegations that the Greek Chief of Police advised officers that undocumented immigrants should be detained for as long as possible, and their “lives made unbearable.” This was part of a related...
Crime
Syrian Refugees Allegedly Maltreated by Greek Authorities
According to an Amnesty International report published on Friday, entitled "An international failure: the Syrian refugee crisis," Greek and Bulgarian authorities are accused of "deplorable treatment" of Syrian refugees. The report mentions "life threatening push-back operations along the Greek coast,...
Greece
Amnesty Worried About Greek Military Service
Amnesty International denounced Greece for a “wave of prosecutions of conscientious objectors.” On Monday, the warden declared that prosecution and punishment of Greeks who denied to respond to their military duties “violates their right to freedom of conscience.”
The organization...
Diaspora
Greece Supports Arrested Greenpeace Activists
The environmental organization is mounting a global campaign to support the 30 Greenpeace activists, held in Russian prisons, this Saturday, October 5 in Athens.
Greenpeace calls everyone to be at 18:00 at Dionysiou Areopagitou and Parthenonos Street, close to the...
Crime
Greek Violence Worries Amnesty International
Amnesty International published an announcement concerning the increased instances of violence in Greece, after the murder of the anti-fascist hip-hop artist, Pavlos Fyssas, by Giorgos Roupakias, a supporter of the neo-Nazi political party, Golden Dawn.
The announcement is entitled “Greece:...
Crime
A Night of Chaos in Greece
Athens and other cities around Greece erupted in violence the night of Sept. 18 in protests over the murder earlier in the day of a 34-year-old anti-fascist hip-hop artist who police said was stabbed to death by a member...
Greece
Court Orders Release Of Hunger Striker Sakkas
Greece's Judicial Council of Appeals on July 11 ordered the release of political hunger striker, jailed anarchist Kostas Sakkas, said to be near death after refusing to eat since June 4 to protect what he said was his unlawful...