Greek police fail to learn lessons of December

Just hours after the shooting of 15 year old Alexandros Grigoropoulos by a police officer in the Exarchia district of central Athens, hundreds started violent protests that would last for weeks and cost the country...

Greek prison uprising spreads to women's jail

Women prisoners in Thiva, Greece have refused to return to their cells and early reports speak of fire inside the jail complex. The uprising is the second in as many days in Greece as yesterday inmates in Hania,...

Prisoners in Greek jails pay the price for dramatic escape

The dramatic escape by helicopter from Athens maximum security Korydallos jail by two prisoners for the second time last week turned convicted kidnappers, Vasilis Paleokostas and Alket Razai into folk heros for...

Hunger strikers win victory in Greek prison protest

After an 18 - day hunger strike involving over half of Greece's prison population the government has said that it will agree to 14 out of the inmate's 16 demands. These include the shortening of sentences and...

Prisoners in Greek jails go on hunger strike

Prisoners in jails across Greece are set to begin a hunger strike from tomorrow in protest against the conditions under which they are held.Included in their demands are calls for a reduction in sentences, the...