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Greek police caught framing innocent bystander during demo
The police chase and apprehand a mask wearing man who is in possession of a bag full of petrol bombs ready to used against shops or fellow officers.Quickly he is subdued, detained and arrested, Mission accomplished.... Greece set to relive violence of December 2008
Almost one year ago 15 year old high school student Alexandros Grigoropoulos was shot in cold blood by a police officer in the Exarchia district of central Athens. The authorities originally claimed that Grigoropoulos had been part of a gang that had attacked a passing patrol... Greek police accused of beating 35 year old mother in front of he
A 35 year old Armenian woman was beaten, handcuffed and detained in front of her two year old child home on the home from a supermarket in Athens last Thursday in case reported in the Eleutherotypia... "Limited use of tear gas" - Greek police revive memories of '73
"Limited use of tear gas or περιορισμένη χρήση χημικών" as they say in Greek is such a benign phrase suggesting that the police sent a few squirts in the general direction of those... Twitter - Tar and feathering for the modern age?
It seems that even in the 21st century we still need a vat of boiling tar and a sack of feathers on hand to punish those considered to have violated the rules of their community. In times gone by the hapless transgressor would have been covered in sticky tar and then rolled... Greek law and order minister says police out of control
Greek police have been accused of heavy handedness and over - reaction following a raid on a bookshop in central Athens following a book reading by the author Dimitris Papachristos (video here). Shortly after the... 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 PM's visit met with mass street protests
The arrival of the Greek prime minister, Costas Karamanlis in the northern port city of Thessaloniki was met with demonstrations by trade union, political parties and other groups unhappy with the ruling... Protesters turn pirates in immigration centre demo
In a move, reminiscent of pirate movies from the past, demonstrators from Greece, Germany, Italy and France in a flotilla of small boats took to the sea in order to blockade the Greek island of Lesvos (Mytilini)....
created by Teacher Dude | 16 wks ago | updated 16 wks ago
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145 views | 32 recommendations | 2 comments
Athens Fires: Wildfires engulf Greek towns and villages
Forest fires are continuing to rage out of control in the Attica region of southern Greece, threatening towns and villages in the area. Agios Stephanos, Dionysios and Palia Pendeli have all reported that the fire...
created by Teacher Dude | 17 wks ago | updated 17 wks ago
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339 views | 78 recommendations | 2 comments
Indymedia sites worldwide go down
Earlier today most of Indymedia, which is a collective of independent media centre went offline could not be accessed. Initially bloggers and Twitter users in Greece suspected that the disappearance of Indymedia... Greece's disappearing child refugees raise concern
Questions still remain about the fate of 12 under age refugees from Afghanistan and Iraq who disappeared from a shelter in Thessaloniki, Greece’s second city. According to reports in the Greek press the 12 were...
created by Teacher Dude | 19 wks ago | updated 19 wks ago
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304 views | 24 recommendations | 3 comments
Putting a human face on immigration in Greece
Manos was born in Greece in 1977, his parents immigrants from Iraq. He studied in the 17th primary school, Peiria and the 2nd junior high school, Renti. Everything went smoothly until 1992 when his father died. Manos was just 15 years old when his mother, unable to deal with...
created by Teacher Dude | 20 wks ago | updated 20 wks ago
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195 views | 14 recommendations | 3 comments
Greek government's forced deportation provokes anger
Amidst protests by local human rights activists refugees on the Greek island of Chios were taken to detention centres on the Greek mainland in handcuffs. Around 60 recently arrived immigrants were taken by ferry...
created by Teacher Dude | 21 wks ago | updated 21 wks ago
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118 views | 22 recommendations | 3 comments
Greek human rights protesters block deportations
Human rights activists on the Greek island of Lesvos last night successfully blocked the transfer of refugees held at the island’s detention centre when they blockaded the ferry that was to take them to the...
created by Teacher Dude | 21 wks ago | updated 21 wks ago
105 views | 16 recommendations | 3 comments
105 views | 16 recommendations | 3 comments
