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.
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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.
A total of 11 people are being investigated on suspicion that they provided support to Christos Pappas, the deputy leader of neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, during the time he was on the run after his conviction last October.
Christos Pappas, the second-in-command in the Golden Dawn criminal organization who was arrested last week after being on the run since last October, is believed to have been planning an escape to Italy.
A 52-year-old woman who was arrested in a police raid in Athens on Thursday night for hiding the deputy leader of Greece’s neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party in her house was handed a 30-month prison sentence on Friday for aiding and abetting a fugitive.
The fugitive deputy leader of Greece’s extreme right-wing Golden Dawn party was jailed on Friday, hours after his capture by the police’s anti-terrorism division.
The second-in-command of the now-defunct Golden Dawn neo-Nazi party was headed to prison in Domokos, central Greece on Friday, where he is expected to serve out a sentence of 13 years and three months for running a criminal organization.
Christos Pappas, the fugitive second-in-command of the now-defunct neo-Nazi Golden Dawn, was to appear before an Athens prosecutor on Friday after being arrested late on Thursday.
A former member of Greece’s extreme right Golden Dawn party, Ioannis Lagos, was extradited to Athens on Saturday from Brussels, where he was a member of the European parliament.
European Parliament lawmaker Yiannis Lagos, who was convicted as a leading member in the trial of neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party last year, landed in Athens on Saturday afternoon, following his extradition from Belgium earlier this week.
Convicted far-right European Parliament lawmaker Yiannis Lagos is expected to be returned to Greece on Saturday afternoon, after Belgium authorities accepted the country’s extradition request.
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