Teachers’ associations serving the First Directorate of Primary Education of Athens (First DIPE) have denounced what they describe as a violent police response to a mass protest outside the directorate…
The grassroots group ‘Until the End’, formed to support relatives of the victims of the Tempe rail disaster, has issued a formal complaint after members say they were subjected to…
Parents and teachers protesting school staff cuts in Athens were met with riot police; organisers say tear gas and stun devices injured children and call for immediate hiring and accountability.
SYRIZA president Socrates Famellos condemned the passage of the amendment designating the area in front of the Monument to the Unknown Soldier as a protected site, calling the measure ‘shameful…
Maria Karystianou, president of the Tempe Victims’ Relatives Association, said the families would continue peaceful action at Syntagma Square despite the government’s amendment that criminalises protest outside Parliament by folding…
The parliament approved an amendment that prohibits gatherings and most forms of protest in the area in front of the Monument to the Unknown Soldier, criminalising acts described in the…
Panos Routsi, father of Dennis who died in the Tempe rail disaster, has filed a complaint after an unmarked car with tinted windows reportedly tried to run him down, and…
Government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis has reiterated that, following the government’s planned amendment, no further protest activity or inscriptions will be permitted in the area directly in front of Parliament, at…
The Solidarity Committee for Panos Routsi issued a strongly worded statement condemning Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s plan to place the Monument to the Unknown Soldier under the Ministry of Defence,…
The government’s clearest response to Panos Routsi’s just request, to his moving struggle, and to the social mobilisation he inspired came only after his 23-day hunger strike ended. What followed…