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Greece
Court Acquits HIV-Positive Women Charged with 'Transmitting the Virus' Via Prostitution
An Athens Misdemeanours Court acquitted a group of HIV positive women arrested in 2012 and charged with repeated counts of grievous bodily harm on the grounds that they were transmitting the HIV/AIDS virus by working as prostitutes and having...
Crime
Marfin Bank Firebombing Suspects Cleared of Charges
Two suspects in 2010 Marfin Bank fatal firebombing and the destruction of IANOS bookstore were found innocent by the First Instance Criminal Court, it was announced on Monday.
Thirty-four-year-old Theodoros Sipsas and 34-year-old Pavlos Andreev were the suspected perpetrators of...
Crime
Trial Begins for 120 Blindness Benefits Scammers Who Could See
The trial of the hundred accused state insurance claimants began at the three-member Court of Misdemeanors on Chios after a number of adjournments. The case concerns 120 recipients of health benefits for blindness from around the island without being...
Economy
German Debts to Greece Should be Claimed Through Diplomacy and in Court if Necessary, Says Parliament's Report
Greece should initially claim the German debts through negotiations with the German government but also in court if Germany insists on its current negative stance, said Greek parliament's intergroup committee for the claim of German debts report that was...
Crime
8 Turkish Army Suspected Coup Plotters Transferred to Athens Olympic Village
The eight Turkish officials implicated for having taken part in the attempted coup in their country before escaping to Greece were sentenced to two months in prison on Thursday for illegal entry to Greece due to mitigating circumstances. Their...
Greece
CoS Again Rules that Pay for Military Must Be Restored to July 2012 Levels, Reversing Cuts
The plenum of the Council of State, Greece's supreme administrative court, has again ruled that salary cuts imposed on those employed in the armed forces as unconstitutional and has ordered that their wages be restored to 2012 levels.
In a...
Greece
Public Sector Union ADEDY Asks Top Court to Cancel Law Increasing Retirement Age
Greece's public sector labor union ADEDY filed a motion on Monday to the Council of State, Greece’s supreme administrative court, asking to cancel a law that gradually increases the retirement age in the public sector.
ADEDY is specifically turning against...
Greece
Greek Court Must Consider Hate Motive Behind Attack on Romani Woman
Any failure of a court in Messolonghi, western Greece, to consider the racist motive in the brutal attack on a Romani woman and her nephew will be a failure of justice, Amnesty International said ahead of the opening of...
Business
The Curious Case of Airfasttickets
Airfasttickets has been the target of Greek and international media accusing the fast-growing online travel agency for unfair competition and bringing to the spotlight complains that include non-refunded tickets after they were cancelled by the company.
Amid the high tourist...
Crime
Teacher Convicted of Making Students Hit Each Other
The court of Arta, Greece imposed a two-year suspended sentence on a teacher that apparently made his students slap their 8-year-old classmate.
This unprecedented incident created a hurricane of reactions from the local community as well as all of Greece....