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Police Report Over 27,000 Protests in Greek Capital 2011-2015

New police data has been released regarding how many riots took place in the Greek Capital of Athens from 2011-2015. To help proportionalize the results, the data was also analyzed, focusing on how many people actually attended the demonstrations. According to...

Greek Farmers on the Road Again

Whether it's good or bad economic times, farmers in Greece love to make their demands known by threatening massive "tractor protests" in the city of Athens and by blocking the nation's major highways. These are terrible economic times and the...

Amnesty International: 'Unlawful Greek Police Violence Must End and Perpetrators Held Accountable'

Amnesty International released a public statement condemning the "unlawful practices" used by the Greek police to control protests in Greece, urging the Greek government to hold perpetrators accountable. The organization describes multiple incidents in which excessive and "unlawful" force was...

Protests Over Teen's Bus Ticket Death

A trolley bus line in the western Athens neighborhood of Peristeri was shut down on Aug. 16 as protests were carried out in the aftermath of the death of a 19-year-old man who police said accidentally fell out of...

Greek Story Attracts World's Reporters

The ongoing Greek crisis with all its elements - economics, society, homelessness, depression, suicides, scandals, etc. - remains so juicy that journalists from around the world still keep pouring in, three years after the troubles began, and there's no...

German Media Show Merkel Demonized in Greece

German media reports on Chancellor Angela Merkel's visit to Athens to meet Prime Minister Antonis Samaras on Oct. 9 concentrated not on the economic talks but the protests which caricatured her as a bullying Nazi. Most mass media published pictures...

Police Brace for More Greek Protests

Some 3,500 police will be deployed at the weekend in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki where unions are planning protests against a new round of austerity that is set to see pensions and some state salaries cut further. Police...

Protests Seek to Hit Collection of Property Tax

Greek protesters tried to disrupt collection of an unpopular new property tax on Thursday and transport workers went on strike in a growing wave of protests against harsh new austerity measures. Unionists of GENOP, which represents workers at the Public...