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Greek authorities say they plan to build detention centers to house 30,000 illegal immigrants by 2014. Public Order Minister Michalis Chrysohoidis said on Monday that...

Local autothirities in Evros are opposed to new plans by the government for new detention centers for undocumented immigrants. According to the government's blueprint, new...

There weren't prisons in ancient Greece as we know them today, only temporary detention centers as criminals were either fined, exiled, or executed. The concept...

There were “no significant changes” in the human rights situation in Greece over the past year, the US State Department said in its annual...

Just prior to the 1967 Greek coup, fifty-five years ago, I arrived in Athens with my mother and CIA father. He was a young...

Protestors who have taken part in the insurgent rebellion in Iran are now facing trials. The forms they take are however not certain. Iran is...

The HOME Project is a group that helps some of the most vulnerable groups of all in Greece -- unaccompanied young migrants and refugees.

Two non-profit organizations announced earlier in the week that they have joined efforts to provide more safe and enabling environments for vulnerable unaccompanied minor...

The Greek government is fortifying the Evros borderline with two new quick response units of 30 men each that will patrol the Greek-Turkish border...

  General Secretariat for Counter-Criminal Policy, part of Greece's Civil Protection Ministry, announced on Friday that visits to detention centers and jails in the country...