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Golden Dawn's No. 2 Jailed Too

After appearing in court on Oct. 3, Christos Pappas, the second-in-command of the Greek neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, was remanded in custody, joining his leader, Nikolaos Michaloliakos and another Member of Parliament, Yannis Lagos, who were being held in...

Released Golden Dawn MP's Claim Victory

Three senior lawmakers from Greece’s neo-Nazi Golden Dawn who were released from pre-trial detention while facing an array of charges including murder, extortion and money laundering stormed out in anger, with one of them, party spokesman, punching and kicking...

Greek Golden Dawn MP Turns Himself In

A Member of Parliament from the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party wanted in a roundup of its members on charges of belonging to a criminal organization gave himself up to police on the morning of Sept. 29, officials said, waving...

Battles Break Out at Anti-Fascist Rally

An anti-fascist rally Sept. 25 in Athens to protest the killing of a hip-hop artist by a man police said belonged to the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party turned violent when demonstrators threw bottles and rocks at riot police who...

Golden Dawn Leader's Wife's Hotel To Be Seized

A hotel owned by the wife of neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party Nikos Michaloliakos, who is opposed to austerity measures being imposed by the government, will be confiscated because she hasn’t paid 36,000 euros ($48,000) in outstanding taxes, the newspaper...

Golden Dawn Gets EU Human Rights Seat

The wife of Greece’s neo-Nazi Golden Dawn leader has been allowed to join the Council of Europe, a human rights organization, despite her denunciation of immigrants as “subhuman” and as the party is being blamed for rising incidents of...

The 12 Events That Bent Greece In 2012

The world was supposed to end in 2012 – on Dec. 21 for you Mayan calendar believers and doomsday cultists – and for many Greeks it seemed like it did. Like the Flogging Molly song, it was the worst...

Anti-Fascists Claim Golden Dawn Bombing

A little-known anti-Fascist group said on Dec. 8 that it was behind a bomb attack on an office of Greece's neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party this week that ripped through a wall and smashed windows but caused no injuries. The dynamite-packed...

Greece’s Golden Dawn Embracing Extremist Role

ATHENS -  Although Greece country suffers through a crushing economic crisis, most citizens are not desperate enough to embrace the hate rhetoric and immigrant-bashing of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party. “They have a bad history and violence breeds violence,” Athens...

Golden Dawn Supporters Attack Passengers on Athens Metro

On Tuesday night, supporters of Golden Dawn attacked an immigrant who was in the metro en route to/from Piraeus - Kifisia. At 11pm, a man from Pakistan was attacked by a gang of almost 30 people while the train...