December 21, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen launched an urgent inquiry into her 26 commissioners’ links to former EU migration chief Dimitris Avramopoulos, who has been caught up in spiraling corruption allegations about Qatari influence in Brussels. Commissioners have half a day to respond to von der Leyen, until 10:30 …
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January 5, 2022
BOOKS, Culture, FEATURED
“We Need Books” is an NGO that functions as a library and, more broadly, a multicultural space in Kypseli, a vibrant and culturally diverse neighbourhood in the centre of Athens. The library features 14,000 books in over 30 languages and at least 6 alphabets, and also includes a children’s library. …
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December 9, 2020
Greece, Politics, Refugees
A Norwegian NGO has rejected claims by Greece’s Migration Minister Notis Mitarakis that it is helping people smugglers, describing it as a “deliberately misleading attack.” The NGO was featured in a presentation to foreign journalists by the minister on Tuesday. Mitarakis presented video testimonies by African migrants who said they …
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September 28, 2020
Refugees
Greek authorities have prepared a case file against 33 foreign nationals, members of four non-governmental organizations dealing with refugee issues on the island of Lesvos. The case file against the specific NGOs reportedly includes the offenses of forming and joining a criminal organization, espionage, violation of state secrets, as well …
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May 25, 2020
Refugees
The Regional Authority of the North Aegean filed an a law suit against the volunteers group Moria Corona Awareness Team for speaking about the “Greek side of the island” of Lesvos. The Regional Authority said that the specific phrase implies that the territory where the Moria hot spot is located …
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February 17, 2020
Very Mix
A forensic examiner confirmed the suspected horror: the 11-month-old refugee baby girl from Syria that died on Sunday was sexually abused. A conducted autopsy could not determine the causes of the baby’s death so far. Results of toxicological tests are awaited. “It is clear that there has been abuse and …
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April 25, 2019
Refugees
Following a two-and-a-half-year legal battle in Greek courts, Salam Kamal-Aldeen, founder of the non-profit Team Humanity has filed an unprecedented application with the European Court of Human Rights challenging Greece’s crackdown on NGOs rescuing refugees at sea. The application filed with the Strasbourg Court challenges the legality of the Greek …
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January 21, 2019
Refugees
A Greek army sergeant and a UK national, member of an NGO, have been arrested in a restricted military area in North-Eastern Greece on Sunday. They were arrested by an army patrol and Greek police. According to Greek state agency amna, the two men were taking photographs in a restricted …
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August 30, 2018
Refugees
Celebrated Syrian refugee, competitive swimmer and Youth Good Will Ambassador Sara Mardini is among the three arrested by Greek police over alleged migrants trafficking by NGO operating on the island of Lesvos. Sara Mardini and Irish national Sean Binder are two of the three NGO members Greek authorities arrested beginning …
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August 28, 2018
Refugees
Greek authorities have struck a blow to a NGO suspected to have been involved in facilitating the illegal arrivals of refugees and migrants to the islands of Lesvos and Samos. The NGO was mainly operating on the island of Lesvos and the hot spot of Moria. Investigation that has lasted …
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July 30, 2018
Social
Athens Homeless help their fire-stricken fellowmen in East Attica. The volunteers groups of the Equal Society NGO has moved to the town of Rafina where a logistics center to distribute donated aid to the local population has been set up. The group consists mainly of homeless people, those who do …
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June 12, 2018
Very Mix
The Three-Member Felonies Appeal Court in Athens sentenced the former chief of the Church NGO “Allileggyi” – Solidarity – to 16 years imprisonment on suspension. Dimitris Fourlemadis was found guilty for embezzlement of 5.5 million euros of public money for charities in third countries.€ According to the court decision, Fourlemadis …
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May 7, 2018
Refugees
A criminal court on the island of Lesvos acquitted three Spanish firefighters members of the NGO Proem-Aid, and two Danes of Arab descent, members of the NGO Team Humanity on Monday. In a session that lasted nine hours the court acquitted the NGO members and ordered return of the bail. …
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May 7, 2018
Politics, Refugees
Three Spanish firefighters and two Danes, all members of non-governmental organizations, stand trial on the island of Lesvos on Monday. Greek authorities accuse them of smuggling refugees into the island of Eastern Aegean Sea and into the European Union in January 2016. The accused say they were only trying to …
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February 12, 2018
Very Mix
Police on the island of Lesvos is investigating the case of a van used by a non-governmental organization to have license plates belonging to an army vehicle. According to local media, police stopped the van in the area of Kratigos near the airport on Saturday night. During the control police …
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February 2, 2018
Greece, Politics
The trial of four former members of the Church of Greece’s charity Allilegii (Solidarity), charged with embezzlement, breach of faith and making false statements started at a Three-member Appeals Court in Athens on Thursday. The case concerns the alleged embezzlement by the NGO’s former head Dimitris Fourlemadis of 5.6 million …
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May 18, 2017
Politics, Refugees
The European Union has suspended funding to a non-government organization (NGO) aiding refugees in Greece pending an investigation into allegations of sexual exploitation and financial corruption, a spokesman for European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management Christos Stylianides has said. “Although these remain allegations under investigation, the Commission is …
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May 3, 2017
Refugees
The prosecutor of Greece’s Supreme Court ordered an urgent investigation into claims of genital mutilation in juvenile refugee and migrant girls in the country’s’ reception centers. In a press release issued by the Supreme Court, the prosecutor stresses that this practice is “a barbarity that can not be tolerated by …
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March 15, 2017
Social, Society
In crisis-hit Greece, some people suffer silently. In the empty four walls of their homes, isolated from the society, the poverty victims feel the pain of the unprecedented humanitarian crisis. Their plight is revealed the moment things have reached bottom. The drama of a family was exposed when one of …
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December 18, 2015
Politics
Corruption prosecutors in action raised felony charges former officials of the Greek Foreign Ministry and submitted the relevant file also to Parliament to investigate possible responsibility of former Foreign Minister George Papandreou. The charges refer to what it seems to be “illegal” funding to a foreign Non-governmental organization, an American …
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