The Athens Court of Appeals unanimously ruled against the release of convicted Golden Dawn cadres Yiannis Lagos and Ilias Kasidiaris on Monday. The court accepted the motion by the prosecution that as leading members of the party the two should remain in prison.
Self-styled “anti-fascist” protesters have organized a rally on Monday outside the Athens Court of Appeals, where judges are due to rule on a motion for the release of convicted Golden Dawn cadres Yiannis Lagos and Ilias Kasidiaris.
The suspended Euro MP of now-defunct Golden Dawn, Ioannis Lagos, had to be briefly removed from court on Monday after insulting the judges in the appeal of the convicted neo-Nazi party.
The head of the Athens’ Prosecutor’s Office has ordered a preliminary inquiry into the Nazi salute performed by a lawyer defending a former member of neo-Nazi criminal organization Golden Dawn (GD) last week.
A New Democracy minister has condemned his lawyer father for giving a Nazi salute in court at an appeal hearing by dozens of people convicted in relation to the Golden Dawn murder of leftist rapper Pavlos Fyssas in 2013
The hearing of appeals by dozens of members of the now-defunct neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party convicted over the 2013 murder of leftist rapper Pavlos Fyssas, among other crimes, continued on Friday in a tense session that became even more stormy when the lawyer of the only defendant in the courtroom gave a Nazi salute.
A court in Athens on Tuesday rejected a request by Golden Dawn leader Nikos Michaloliakos to delay the appeal trial against the landmark October 2020 verdict that found the leadership of the neo-Nazi party guilty of running a criminal organization.
An appeals court in Athens rejected on Wednesday requests by four defendants in the Golden Dawn trial – including MEP and former member of Greece’s neo-Nazi party, Ioannis Lagos – to be released from jail.
An Athens court began hearing appeals on Wednesday against the convictions 18 months ago of leaders and regional members of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party for a series of criminal activities.
After a brief session on Wednesday, an appeals court in Athens hearing a request to overturn the prolonged prison terms of four former leading figures of the now-defunct neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party adjourned until July 6.
An appeals court has suspended the six-year prison sentence of former Golden Dawn MP Nikos Michos.
The Supreme Court has called for a decision by a lower court to release a jailed Golden Dawn operative from jail while awaiting his appeal to be reversed.
Giorgos Patelis, a jailed former member of the now defunct neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, was released from prison by a parole board on Monday after serving just one year of his 10-year prison sentence.
Greece’s general secretary for anti-crime policy, Sofia Nikolaou, sent a document to the administration of the Domokos Prison asking whether the imprisoned Ilias Kasidiaris, a former senior member of neo-Nazi Golden Dawn, should be allowed to call anyone other than his family.
Andreas Tzelis, one of the prosecution lawyers for the family of murdered antifascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas in the long-running Golden Dawn trial, has died after a long illness, it was reported on Tuesday.
Former Golden Dawn lawmaker Michalis Arvanitis, who was arrested in July for violating parole during his five-year sentence for membership of a criminal organization, was released from custody on Monday.
