Following a recent NEWS247 report showing that at least 46 public hospitals in Greece are denying women access to free and safe abortion, a new concern has emerged over reproductive…
A new conservative and Islamophobic line appears to be taking shape over a possible legislative initiative to ban the burqa in Greece. The prospect was raised in parliament by the…
The Five-Member Court of Appeal for Felonies in Athens has upheld the first-instance sentences for the leading figures of the convicted neo-Nazi criminal organisation Golden Dawn. The court rejected mitigating…
Thousands of people took part in rallies and marches in Athens and Thessaloniki on International Women’s Day, calling for gender equality and action against gender-based violence.
The Secretary-General of the Central Committee of the Greek Communist Party (KKE), Dimitris Koutsoumpas, issued a statement on International Women’s Day, linking women’s struggles to opposition to war and what…
The New Left has condemned the criminal prosecution of archaeologist Stavros Bazas in Alexandroupolis as an unprecedented attack on democratic rights. In a statement, the party described the transformation of…
Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis has announced he is filing a criminal complaint and civil lawsuit against comedian and television presenter Lakis Lazopoulos, following a segment on Lazopoulos’s satirical programme Al…
The Organising Committee of the Referendum for the Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF) is calling on the Municipality of Thessaloniki to lift what it describes as an illegal obstruction of the…
The Citizens’ Registry Directorate of the Municipality of Thessaloniki’s General Directorate for Quality of Life is attempting, on questionable grounds, to block the expressed will of 23,000 citizens seeking a…
Refugee Support in the Aegean (RSA) says official state data confirms the harmful consequences of what it describes as unfair and disproportionate criminal sanctions for the offences of ‘illegal’ entry,…