#Greece: Press Release | The Ombudsman on the progress of the disciplinary probe of the #PylosShipwreck #RefugeesGr www.synigoros.gr/en/category/...

🔈Historic low for the #RuleOfLaw in #Greece: "Top 🇬🇷Prosecutor Ends Predator #Spyware Probe, Rejecting New Inquiry", whitewashing the gov't. Before, he was "overseeing the.. Intelligence Service during the period when surveillance authorizations were being signed"... www.tovima.com/politics/top...

Greece’s right-wing ruling party has gone on the offensive against top European Prosecutor Laura Codruța Kövesi over her probe into a massive corruption scandal in Athens involving hundreds of millions of euros of EU farm funds. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/gree...

I don't often shout at EU legal texts while reading them, but this opinion is, to use a legal term, utter fucking bullshit. (With great respect 😀) More precisely, it deals with two scenarios: being removed from Italy to Albania to be detained as either an irregular migrant or an asylum seeker. 1/

🔈According to @picumofficial.bsky.social, #Greece is the country with the worst record concerning judicial proceedings against individuals acting in solidarity with #migrants: 48 cases, with Poland following with 20... #HumanRightsDefenders #Racism picum.org/wp-content/u...

#Greece: "Heinz Kounio, the last remaining survivor of the first “death train” from #Thessaloniki to #Auschwitz, passed away at the age of 98. May his memory be a blessing. (...) 50,000 #Jews from Thessaloniki were murdered during the Holocaust.” x.com/i/status/204...

Now public: communication to #Greece on the introduction of new legislation concerning migration & human rights defenders, & the response from the Government. [1/2] srdefenders.org/greece-analy...

I remain extremely concerned by the new legislation, & decry the Greek govt's continuing policy of conflating the legitimate work of HRDs with criminal activity. This work is absolutely essential, in particular given the increasingly well-evidenced practice of pushbacks by the Greek govt. [2/2]

The Jewish cemetery of Volos was desecrated on the Holocaust Remembrance Day. The slogans that were inciting violence were signed by the #GoldenDawn #Nazis. The Central Board of #Jewish Communities in #Greece calls for their arrest. #antisemitism www.facebook.com/share/p/1DwT...

"Greek police using masked migrants to forcibly push other migrants back across border" #Greece #PushBacks #Rape #RefugeesGr by @kostaskallergis.bsky.social & Jessica Parker www.bbc.com/news/article...

🇭🇺 Hungary’s parliamentary elections: vibrant, but no equal opportunities for contestants, international observers say. Read the press release: buff.ly/RKAPdTU

Haidar, a 20-year-old asylum seeker in #Greece, died on Lesvos island, in January. He was on a mountainside, injured, and alone. He was wandering for 5 days without food and clothes while the pleas for help were intentionally ignored by authorities... #RefugeesGr www.efsyn.gr/ellada/dikai...

#Greece: Five years without justice for killing of crime reporter Giorgos #Karaivaz Case is only killing of journalist in EU in last decade to make no concrete progress in securing justice" #PressFreedom ipi.media/greece-five-...

“🇬🇷Greece’s sprawling wiretapping scandal has entered a decisive new phase, with judicial maneuvering and mounting delays fueling concerns that key offenses could expire before prosecutors bring charges.” www.dnews.gr/eidhseis/new...

"Supplementary submission to ECRI on racist speech, #RacistCrimes, and harassment of #HumanRightsDefenders in #Greece" racistcrimeswatch.wordpress.com/2026/04/07/1...

"Never since the return to #democracy in 1974 has #Greece experienced institutional and—perhaps more distressingly—moral decay on such a scale, with the wielders of power revealing such brazen cynicism and the citizenry such fatalistic apathy." #RuleOfLaw www.tovima.com/opinions/ins...

‼️🔈#Greece: Once again an immigrant was found dead in the, notorious for #PoliceBrutality, police department of Omonia, central Athens. He was in custody for being, reportedly, undocumented but nothing is known about him, except from having "health issues"... www.efsyn.gr/ellada/astyn...

#Greece 🔈Cease the prosecution against activist Tommy Olsen! The “Campaign for the Access to Asylum” & the co-signing orgs, request from 🇬🇷& 🇪🇺 authorities to stop the prosecution of #humanrightsdefenders & the misinformation & promote the investigation of all illegal #pushbacks of #RefugeesGr‼️

#Ελλαδα: Να παύσει η δίωξη εναντίον του ακτιβιστή Tommy Olsen‼️ Η Καμπάνια για την Πρόσβαση στο Άσυλο & άλλες οργανώσεις ζητούν από τις 🇬🇷& 🇪🇺 αρχές να σταματήσουν οι διώξεις υπερασπιστών ανθρωπίνων δικαιωμάτων & η παραπληροφόρηση & να προωθηθεί η διερεύνηση των καταγγελιών παράνομων επαναπροωθήσεων‼️

💥 amazing development in the Greek #PredatorGate case: Tal Dilian, founder of spyware company #Intellexa breaks the silence and makes a statement implicating the government, secret service EYP, and the nephew/former right hand of PM Mitsotakis. Read the full story 👉 @insidestory.gr

New Tal Dilian statement on #PredatorGate points even more clearly to the 🇬🇷authorities: “I believe it is a crime for private individuals to interfere communications. But it is even more serious crime to organize a conspiracy crime to send innocent people to jail to cover up political authorities.“

🔈"Allegations #Greece deployed an armed Afghan paramilitary unit to violently assault a group of 61 mostly-Turkish nationals seeking political asylum have raised alarm within the EU’s border agency, Frontex." #RefugeesGr #PushBacks euobserver.com/207979/greec...

"French judge probes former EU border chief for complicity in crimes against humanity Fabrice Leggeri, now a #FarRight member of the #EU Parliament, was accused of tolerating #pushbacks of asylum seekers during a 7-year spell as Frontex chief that began in 2015" www.lemonde.fr/en/france/ar...

Greece train tragedy trial adjourned amid courtroom chaos

Pete Hegseth is promoting a nihilist cult of death | Jan-Werner Mueller

The arrest of human rights activist Tommy Olsen by Norwegian authorities is based on a groundless extradition request by Greece. Norwegian authorities should refuse to be a part of targeting rights defenders and release Olsen.

Tommy Olsen released from custody Defense attorney Brynjulf ​​Risnes informs TV 2 that activist Tommy Olsen has been released pending the processing of his appeal. See www.facebook.com/panayote/pos...

I am very concerned by the human rights defender Tommy Olsen being taken into custody in #Norway, pending his possible extradition to #Greece. [1/3] @norwayingeneva.norway.no

I have known Tommy's work with Aegean Boat Report for years, and fear the charges he faces have been brought in direct retaliation for his work defending the rights of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers. [2/3] @norwayingeneva.norway.no

His prosecution appears to form part of the long-standing and well documented repression of people doing such work in #Greece and at the EU's borders. The case against him should be dropped. [3/3] @norwayingeneva.norway.no

Dinushika Dissanayake Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for Europe said: 📢 “Tommy Olsen’s arrest in 🇳🇴 is appalling & stems from an alarming escalation of #Greece’s crackdown on #HumanRightsDefenders. Based on info available to @amnesty.org, T.O. & 1/ www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

V-Dem’s report, titled Unravelling the Democratic Era?, should be required reading for Europe, where seven EU member states – Hungary, #Greece, Croatia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Italy and Romania – are “affected by autocratisation”

‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog Sweden’s V-Dem Institute warns that the #US is no longer a liberal #democracy. And autocracy is creeping across Europe too. www.theguardian.com/world/commen...

📢 Tommy Olsen is the founder of @aegeanboatreport.bsky.social & one of the few #humanrightsdefenders who monitor illegal deadly #pushbacks in #Greece. "The District Court has concluded that T.O. can be extradited to 🇬🇷. He will appeal. The charges against him are a joke. How shameful for Norway‼️

During the 🇪🇺 @europarl.europa.eu debate on the rule of law in 🇬🇷Greece, most MEPs recognised the court’s decision on the Predator #spyware case as a first step – but raised broader concerns about the state of the rule of law in the country. www.in.gr/2026/03/11/p...

Wars have rules for a reason. Civilians should never pay the price of any conflict. 1/4🧵

📢 #Greece: "He survived a shipwreck where he lost his wife & their 2-year-old son". He stands trial today accused of being a "smuggler", only for steering the boat. The deadly shipwreck occurred on 3/4/25 off Lesvos. 7 people lost their lives... #RefugeesGr www.facebook.com/share/p/1Ahg...

#Greece: "An appeals court on Wednesday unanimously upheld a landmark ruling that the #neoNazi party #GoldenDawn operated as a criminal organization, reaffirming a 2020 trial court decision." www.ekathimerini.com/politics/129...

📢 Παρακαλώ υπογράψτε: "Προσπάθεια απάντησης στην μεθοδική προσπάθεια ανάκλησης του καθεστώτος ασύλου του μετανάστη πολίτη Πακιστάν και προέδρου της Πακιστανικής Κοινότητας Ελλάδας Τζαβέντ Ασλάμ, μετά από 30 χρόνια παραμονής στη χώρα" www.efsyn.gr/ellada/dikai...

📢 #Greece: "Woman with #disabilities killed.. at Athens airport.. she was fighting for #accessibility.. the vehicle’s ramp did not adjust properly to the entrance of the lift.. the escort decided to carry her in his arms. However, they both fell in the void" www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2026/02/28/w...

ECtHR: Selami v. Greece. Inadequate Time to Prepare Defence with Court-Appointed Lawyer at Appeal Trial. Violation of Article 6 §§ 1 and 3 (b). www.echrcaselaw.com/en/echr-deci...

#Greece: IPI welcomes the recent criminal convictions handed down by a Greek court to four individuals from surveillance firm Intellexa whose Predator spyware was used to illegally surveil Greek journalist Thanasis Koukakis. Full statement👇 buff.ly/lJvTlE3

#Greece: Continued judicial harassment against migrants’ rights defender Panayote Dimitras #HumanRightsDefenders www.omct.org/en/resources...

The official accounts tell one story. Survivors tell another. Our investigation into the deadly collision off Chios looks at the inconsistencies surrounding the deaths of 15 people. with @moiralavelle.bsky.social & Giorgos Christides wearesolomon.com/mag/format/i...

📢 All 4 defendants guilty in #Greece’s #wiretapping trial (126y 8m each, 8 years to serve, pending appeal). Case file sent for further probe into espionage crimes. Government officials, incl. the PM, who are suspected to have ordered the wiretapping have not been persecuted, by now... #PredatorGate

Trafficked from Nepal, migrant workers prosecuted while Greek employers escape scrutiny - Solomon 18 / 02 / 2026 wearesolomon.com/mag/format/i...

📢 #Greece: A Coast Guard commander "who resigned because “he couldn’t continue this way of life,” describes in detail the tactics, instructions & systematic cover-ups behind" shipwrecks & bodies "that the sea washes ashore". via Rizospastis #RefugeesGr racistcrimeswatch.wordpress.com/2026/02/21/1...

#Greece must stop the judicial harassment and intimidation of migrant rights defenders #HumanRightsDefenders #RefugeesGr www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/statement...

Today marks 4 years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine & 12 years since its initial military intervention. 2025 was the most devastating year in terms of humanitarian consequences & the deadliest for civilians since 2022. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Now public: letter to #Greece on the new law on migration, outlining its incompatibility with international human rights law & its impact on people defending the rights of migrants. [1/2] srdefenders.org/greece-analy...