Greek Court

In an extensive article about what happened on Wednesday, July 30, after the court decision to acquit the accused farmers who shot at and injured 28 strawberry pickers from Bangladesh in Manolada, British newspaper The Guardian spoke with members...

In a landmark decision for the Greek judicial system, the Athens Administrative Appeals Court placed a temporary hold on the expulsion of a Kenyan woman due to a threat of being subjected to forced genital mutilation (FGM) and her three...

The custody trial of "Little Maria," as she became known, started yesterday in a court in the central city of Larissa. The fair-haired child was placed into foster care six months ago after she was spotted during a raid on...

The President of the Greek Union of Judges and Prosecutors, Vassiliki Thanou announced that during the next judicial year, the 18-month custody will probably cease to exist. She spoke during the hearing of the parliamentary committee that is in charge...

An unusual kind of trial took place in the First Misdemeanor Court of Thessaloniki, Greece. It was probably the first time that so many defendants were being tried simultaneously in this court. Seventy-two parents were being tried for choosing...

Surrounded by heavily-armed anti-terrorist police, four Members of Parliament from Greece's neo-Nazi  Golden Dawn  party rounded up with a group of other leaders and members charged with operating a criminal gang appeared in an Athens court on Oct. 1...

A Greek court has imposed life sentences on two men convicted of dealing in ancient treasure worth an estimated €12 million, which had been illegally excavated from a cemetery in northern Greece. The court in the northern city of Thessaloniki...

A Greek court has convicted an elderly villager and four local officials on charges of negligence that led to 36 deaths five years ago in one of the country's worst-ever wildfires. Judges gave a suspended 10-year sentence to Sofia Nikolopoulou,...

The public prosecutor’s office in Athens has charged the organizers, producers and cast of the play Corpus Christi with blasphemy following a lawsuit filed by Bishop Seraphim of Piraeus. Directed by Albanian-born Laertis Vasiliou, Terrence McNally’s play had been staged...

Greek pension reforms requested by Troika of the European Union-International Monetary Fund-European Central Bank (EU-IMF-ECB) to secure a pending loan of $38.8 billion may be unconstitutional, a Greek court ruled on Nov. 1, further complicating the government's plan to...