immigrants

Greek Minister of Interior Evripides Stylianidis told an audience in Berlin during a conference on Techniques on Legislation Improvement in Greece and Europe that despite Greece's crushing economic crisis, Greek schools in Germany will stay open, a message greeted...

Proceedings in the Greek parliament were disrupted Thursday after a far-right deputy and member of a Council of Europe anti-discrimination committee described immigrants as subhumans. The incident was reported by the Greek news agency Ana , which was quoted by...

Greece has been condemned by the European Court of Human Rights for two cases of maltreatment of immigrants, and ordered to pay 8,000 euros damage to an illegal immigrant from Georgia, Zane Bgilasvili. In that case, the court found Greece...

United Nations High Commissioner of Human Rights Navi Pillay says her agency is deeply concerned about recent attacks on immigrants and asylum seekers in Greece and other countries. She said there is increasing discrimination against immigrants, especially in countries hit...

Thousands of immigrants marched in Athens on Friday to protest police sweeps and a rash of racist attacks in Greece as the country struggles to pull itself out of a huge debt crisis. Greece is a major gateway for mostly...

PIRAEUS -Police said that a gang led by members of the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn invaded a ship and tried to attack a 21-year-old Pakistani immigrant charged in the beating and sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl on this...

The European Court of Human Rights condemned Greece for mistreatment of an Albanian legal immigrant, Arben Lisha. Mr. Lisha had appealed against Greek authorities for mistreatment after he was deported to Albania. He used to reside in Skala Lakonias,...

In an atmosphere that has become increasingly electric before Greece's crucial elections, the far-right Golden Dawn has ratcheted up the rhetoric by threatening to remove immigrants and their children from hospitals and kindergartens. Earning loud applause at an election campaign...

According to president of the Greek correctional officers Spyros Karakitsos, interviewed by the newspaper To Vima, decades of immigrants who have served their sentence imposed by Greek courts remain in prison as "guests" because it is impossible to get deported. Everyone...

Based on a joint approach to tackle the problem of illegal immigration, Health Minister Andreas Loverdos and his Citizen Protection colleague, Michalis Chryssochoidis, presented a full-scale plan capable of ensuring the protection of public health in the country from...