
School and university students are planning a new protest march in central Athens on Thursday against education reforms brought about by a recently approved law.
School and university students are planning a new protest march in central Athens on Thursday against education reforms brought about by a recently approved law.
The Association of Attica Regional Authority Workers (SYPA) has called a four-hour strike on Monday and organized a “symbolic blockade” of the capital’s main landfill at Fyli, northwest of Athens. SYPA is protesting plans to extend the landfill at Fyli and to build an incineration unit in the same area, arguing that it is a […]
Convicted terrorist Dimitris Koufodinas has ended his hunger strike after 66 days.
Police arrested 16 of the 33 people detained during an operation to evacuate a sit-in at a building on the campus of Thessaloniki’s Aristotle University housing the rectorate early Thursday morning.
Extensive clashes broke out between police and protesters Thursday in Greece’s second-largest city, Thessaloniki, after authorities ended an occupation by students and other demonstrators at the city’s main university building.
The main opposition accused Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis of targeting it as the instigator of the violence that marred a protest march against police brutality on Tuesday night, despite knowing that hooligans were planning to hijack the rally.
Two more people have been arrested by counter-terrorism police for the violent beating of a police officer on the sidelines of a protest march in the suburb of Nea Smyrni last Tuesday.
A Greek police officer has been suspended over the beating of a man in an Athens suburb this week that led to protests against police violence and fuelled an increasingly angry political row between the government and opposition parties.
A group of protesters participating in a demonstration against police violence in a suburb of southwestern Athens clashed with riot police on Wednesday evening.
Student rallies were held in Greece’s two largest cities on Wednesday morning to protest against a new law reforming education and insufficient measures to protect against the coronavirus in schools.
Sixteen people have been arrested after the clashes between police and protesters on Tuesday night, following a march against police violence in the Athenian suburb of Nea Smyrni.
Greek Police (ELAS) ordered the temporary closure of Panepistimio metro station in central Athens at 11.30 a.m. on Wednesday.
The life of a police officer who received serious head injuries during clashes after a march against police violence in the Athens suburb of Nea Smyrni Tuesday evening is “not in danger,” Skai reported Wednesday.
The center of the Nea Smyrni district in Athens was transformed into a war zone for several hours on Tuesday as groups of hooded men launched attacks on police with firebombs and stones, set fire to dumpsters and went on a vandalism spree.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis called for “restraint and composure” after violent clashes between police and protesters broke out during a demonstration in an Athens suburb against police violence, leaving one officer injured.
One police officer was injured during clashes with protesters on the sidelines of a rally against police violence in an Athenian suburb on Tuesday afternoon.