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Greek authorities are locked into talks on Saturday with inmates at Korydallos maximum security prison to convince them to stop their protest and return to their cells. Inmates refused to return to their cells and remained in the common areas...

A 25-year-old man in Cyprus refused to leave the central prisons after his release as he had nowhere else to go, it was reported on Wednesday. According to the Politis news daily, the 25-year-old, who was sentenced to 45 days...

Former defense minister Akis Tsohatzopoulos stayed in prison one more day on Tuesday as his lawyers searched for their client’s old passport, which has to be submitted to the authorities before he is released, sources from his environment said...

New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced on Tuesday he will abolish the so-called “Paraskevopoulos law” which allows criminals who have served part of their sentence to be released from prison, in an attempt to relieve prison overcrowding. “Innocent citizens are...

A five-member Criminal Appeals Court on Wednesday again rejected a request filed by jailed former Greek minister Akis Tsohatzopoulos for his release from prison. This is the fourth time that a petition requesting Tsohatzopoulos' release and a suspension of...

Francois Crepeau, special UN rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, urged Greece on Monday to stop detaining refugee and migrant children in police cells. Following a fact-finding mission to the country from May 12 to 16, Crepeau called...

Workers in Domokos prison discovered a long tunnel under the shower in a cell, indicative of prisoners planning an escape route. It is unknown to authorities who the prisoners are and what their plan was exactly. Thus far it is...

  The Greek Government decided to tighten the legislation regarding the obstruction of public transport. In particular the Greek Government with an amendment that was included in the bill of the Cohabitation Agreement for homosexual couples, modified the Article of...

Greek-Australian travel agent Alexandra Kamitsis was sentenced to three years and 11 months in prison this week for fraud, after she admitted to spending money she obtained for pensioner travel concessions on her family and friends. Furthermore, the former...

A Greek prison is on lockdown after the discovery of a tunnel that could have been used for a future escape. While searching the cell of an inmate, prison guards of the Trikala Prison in Northern Greece found an entrance to...