Press conference: The Rule of Law with Regards to the Possible Extradition of 8 Turkish Officials
“We cannot allow the eight to be extradited to Turkey. We can’t sacrifice our values, because it’s dangerous.”
Category: Press Releases
Democracy in Turkey: no longer? What are we to do?
In the last years we have had clear signs of the retreat of the rule of law in Turkey. Today, with the pretext of tackling the “internal enemy”, the government has not only been restricting human rights
Children in cages: there is no end to the shame
Press Release
The recent images and report by the BBC on the ‘Lechaina Medical Centre for Children’ raise, once more, questions about Greek society’s stance
The arson attack on Athens Voice undermines Greek democracy
Press Release
In response to the recent arson attack on the newspaper Athens Voice, but also every similar attempt to use violence as a means to confront opinions and ideas
Strawberry Pickers Shot by Bosses in Greece
Press Release
One of the darkest chapters in Greece’s judicial history closes as three men and their boss are cleared of wrongdoing after shooting dozens of migrant workers
When Art Serves Foreign Policy
Press Release
30 October 2014 Following an intervention by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 7 Greek short films were withdrawn last week from the international film festival ‘Other Movie’
Fired Cleaning Ladies Beaten outside Greek Ministry of Finance
Press Release
In light of the unprovoked jeering and beating of cleaning ladies and journalists by police officers outside Greece’s Ministry of Finance
The continuous sinking of immigration policy
Press Release
The Board of Directors of the Hellenic League for Human Rights expresses its repulsion towards the Samos boat sinking
SLC: They called the detention of foreign nationals a restrictive measure so as not to confess that the Operation Xenios Zeus was a fiasco…
Press Release
On 11 February 2014 the State Legal Council, after a question by the Hellenic Police Headquarters, issued an unprecedented in the Greek law chronicles
An amendment of racism and impunity
Press Release
The Hellenic League for Human Rights has often highlighted the fact that the lack of legal protection for victims of racist crimes
The murder of Shehzad Luqman was a hate crime
Press Release
Athens, 7 January 2014. The trial for the murder of Shehzad Luqman resumes on Wednesday, 8 January 2014.
National Action Plan on Human Rights: a quick job of it…
Press Release
A few weeks ago, the government submitted for consultation the ‘National Action Plan on Human Rights’, an action plan for the upgrading of the protection
