December 7, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Anti-vaxxer parents who do not send their children to school will be punished with up to 2 years imprisonment and fines, the Greek Education Ministry ruled in an amendment submitted to the Palriament late on Tuesday. The tough measure comes as parents and guardians who oppose vaccinations against Covid-19 and …
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November 17, 2021
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
A criminal code provision that Greece’s parliament adopted on November 11, 2021, makes it a criminal offense to spread “fake news.” The new Law could lead to journalists being jailed. The Human Rights Watch calls on the Greek government to immediately move to revoke the provision, which is incompatible with …
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November 11, 2021
FEATURED, Turkey-GR
Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has filed a lawsuit against a Greek newspaper on Wednesday. The lawsuit submitted to a prosecutor’s office in Ankara refers to a front page of conservative daily “Dimokratia” two years ago. The lawsuit demands imprisonment of up to five years for four high-ranking newspaper staff …
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June 25, 2020
Greece, Politics
Development Minister Adonis Georgiadis is known to have a big mouth. On Wednesday, he went so far to threaten the head prosecutor investigating possible involvement of politicians to the Novartis bribes scandal with imprisonment. Corruption prosecutor Eleni Touloupaki, “should go to jail because she violated the Constitution” for pressing charges …
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March 12, 2020
CORONAVIRUS, Greece
Violating the measures imposed by Greece’s health authorities to contain the spread of coronavirus should be treated as a crime and prosecuted, the Supreme Court said on Thursday. Punishment reaches up to life imprisonment if violating the measures causes death. In a memo sent to prosecution offices, the Supreme Court …
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May 21, 2019
animals
A court on the island of Corfu imposed the maximum sentence so far by a Greek court in the last years to a 67-year-old man who shot his dog. The man was sentence to 33 months on suspension and a fine of 5,300 euros. Additionally, the man should expect the …
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February 14, 2019
Social
A mother of 13 children who applied for a job vacancy was sentenced to 8 years imprisonment for having forged the date she graduated from elementary school. In her job application for a work at a state hospital in Ioannina, Epirus, the woman had wrote the year of her graduation …
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January 28, 2019
Greece, Politics
A three-member Misdemeanor court in Aigio, Peloponnese, sentenced hard-core Metropolit Amvrosios to seven months imprisonment for “misuse of ecclesiastic office, hate speech and incitement to violence. The Bishop of Aegialeia and Kalavryta had called his followers to “spit on homosexuals and “stone gays.” The sentence is suspended for three years …
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July 18, 2018
Turkey-GR
The news about the two Greek soldiers in the hands of Turkish authorities are not promising. Information leaked by court sources in Greece’s neighboring country indicates that lieutenant Aggelos Mitretodis and sergeant Dimitris Kouklatzis are facing a prison sentence of up to two years. Although officially no charges have been …
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May 23, 2018
Society, Very Mix
The Misdemeanor court in Thessaloniki found guilty three men for the attack against the mayor of Thessaloniki, Yiannis Boutaris. The court sentenced one 20-eyar-old and a 36-year-old to 14 months imprisonment and the second 20-year-old to 21 months. The sentence is suspended for 3 years for the two 20-year-olds. There …
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March 17, 2017
Society, Very Mix
The man who would save Greece from the debt, the man who claimed he owned $600 billion, Artemis Sorras, has been sentenced to eight years imprisonment without parole on felony charges for embezzlement. A court in Patras, Sorra’s hometown in Peloponnese, sentenced him and his wife in absentia. The arrest …
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September 23, 2016
Society
The Three Member Felony Court in Larissa imposed the penalty of 15 years imprisonment for a cleaning lady who had submitted a fake Primary School Diploma in order to get a job at a state nursery. She was hired at the municipality nursery 20 years ago. The court found that …
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July 21, 2016
Politics, Turkey-GR
A Greek court sentenced each of the eight Turkish officers who fled to Greece after the failed coup attempt of July 15 to two months in prison on 3-year suspension, on charges of illegally entering the country. The court recognized “mitigating action under the threat of life.” H However, the …
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October 15, 2015
Society
I think we have turned into a country where everyone considers he owns a free pass to transform into a law every crap that comes into his mind. The Executive Director of the Athens Public Transport company (OASA) seems to be one of them. OASA CEO Grigoris Dimitriadis told the …
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October 7, 2013
Politics
The judges spoke in the case Akis Tsochatzopoulos and the famous submarines bribes: the former Defense Minister of PASOK received a prison sentence of 20 years. The court imposed the highest sentence for money laundering cases. Tsochatzopoulos has to stay in prison at least seven years. He was arrested one …
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March 4, 2013
Politics
A court in Athens sentenced former Defence Minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos to 7+1 years imprisonment, a fine of 520,000 euro while it ordered the confiscation of his luxury real estate property, a three-storey building at noble Dionisioy-Aeropagitoy Street close to Acropolis. Akis Tsochatzopoulos, former powerful PASOK official stood trial on Monday morning …
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April 2, 2011
animals
The revised law for the protection of companion animals and strays has been uploaded on March 31 on internet for public consultation. You can write your comments until April 13, 2011. Unfortunately I can’t translate the whole law… However from the comments I’ve read so far, there are constructive proposals …
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March 30, 2011
animals
Important changes in the Law for the protection of animals are on the way as the Ministry for Rural Development and Food finally submitted a draft with regulations that aim to protect animals – strays or companion animals. The draft bill foresees no-redeemable penalties for animals abusers and fines up …
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