The decision of the Greek Government to block the joint EU statement with regard to the human rights situation in China and Egypt before the UN Human Rights Council’s 35thsession in June
Common statement
On Monday 19/06/2017, the prosecutor of the Supreme Court Mrs. Demetriou met in her office representatives of agencies and organizations (Hellenic League for Human Rights,
A few days ago HLHR publicized a complaint that concerned the informal refoulement of Turkish citizens seeking international protection from the state, from Greece back to Turkey. One of them is already held in a Turkish prison, and no further communication with him is possible.
Athens, May 29th, 2017
The Hellenic League for Human Rights has received allegations concerning the refoulement of Turkish asylum seekers in Evros
On the occasion of the 9 and 10 March European Council meeting, HLHR
“We cannot allow the eight to be extradited to Turkey. We can’t sacrifice our values, because it’s dangerous.”
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
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
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
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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
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30 October 2014 Following an intervention by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 7 Greek short films were withdrawn last week from the international film festival ‘Other Movie’
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In light of the unprovoked jeering and beating of cleaning ladies and journalists by police officers outside Greece’s Ministry of Finance
