Greece
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Decree limiting free movement deemed unlawful
The Council of State has deemed unlawful a presidential decree that stipulated that refugees from third countries with a legal resident permit could only settle in particular districts.
1 July 2006 (42 words)
Irregular migrants regularised, but negative attitudes persist
There was criticism of the government's regularisation programme for undocumented migrants which ended on 30 April 2006, with an estimated 180,000 applications.
1 May 2006 (140 words)
Police brutality against Afghans in Athens
Amnesty International has demanded an investigation be held into reports that Greek police officers have subjected a group of Afghan asylum seekers to torture.
31 December 2004 (219 words)
Hijacking prompts anti-immigrant outburst
The hijacking of an Attica bus by two Albanians who took 23 hostages, has prompted a backlash in the press against all immigrants in Greece.
19 December 2004 (155 words)
Crime rates low among immigrants
Contrary to the general belief that most law breakers in Greece are aliens, statistics released by the Greek police reveal particularly low crime rates among immigrants.
16 December 2004 (35 words)
ECRI says minorities need protection
ECRI has called upon the Greek government to do more to counter anti-Semitism and protect Roma.
22 November 2004 (151 words)
Anti-discrimination law being drafted
The government is planning legislative action to ensure that discrimination on grounds of race, sex, religion, disability and nationality is banished from the workplace and social security system.
27 October 2004 (64 words)
Demonstration against anti-Albanian racial violence
Around 3,000 anti-racists and immigrants took to the streets of Athens on 9 September to protest at violent clashes involving right-wing groups which followed Greece's football defeat by Albania on the previous Saturday.
11 September 2004 (106 words)
Olympic 'clean-up' violates rights of the vulnerable
Workers' organisations and human rights groups have been concerned about the treatment of the most vulnerable groups in Greece, in the run-up to the Olympic Games.
12 August 2004 (377 words)
Athens mosque still under debate
Greece's minority Muslim community called on Muslims around the world to boycott the Olympics because of the refusal by the authorities to provide a mosque or cemetery in the host city.
25 July 2004 (254 words)
European elections: breakthrough for xenophobic LAOS party
The extreme-Right Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS) has made its first electoral breakthrough, to gain a seat in the European parliament.
14 June 2004 (138 words)
ECRI reports on racism
ECRI reports stereotypes, prejudices and incidences of discrimination targeting members of minority groups, particularly the Roma community and minority religious groups, as well as immigrants.
8 June 2004 (68 words)
Far-right targets minority political meeting
Police in Thessaloniki clashed with 150 right-wingers who tried to force their way into a meeting of a party representing Greece's northern Slav-speaking minority.
6 June 2004 (78 words)
Olympic security plans heightens xenophobia
Amnesty International has warned that the debate about security in the run up to the Olympic games, as well as specific policing operations targeted at immigrant areas, are leading to a xenophobic climate against immigrants and asylum seekers in Greece.
12 May 2004 (305 words)
Thessalonika police reopen cases of unsolved disappearances of migrants
Thessalonika police have reopened the cases of several unsolved disappearances of migrant workers, following the arrest of a farmer in Langadas who had confessed to murdering three Albanian shepherds when he was arrested for abducting his former fiancée and killing her two brothers.
10 May 2004 (86 words)
Far-right publisher on blackmail charge
Grigoris Michalopolous, a far-right publisher was indicted on charges of blackmail for allegedly demanding money from businessmen and top churchmen for getting their names removed from a list of terror targets.
22 April 2004 (40 words)
General election: no representation for LAOS
In the March general election, LAOS failed to cross a 3 per cent threshold to win any seats in the country's parliament.
8 March 2004 (66 words)
Migrant deaths in Olympics construction
A confidential report obtained by the Independent newspaper has revealed that at least thirteen immigrant workers have died in industrial accidents in the race to build the Olympic dream in Athens.
3 March 2004 (152 words)
Gypsies attacked in Athens
Dozens of ethnic Greeks from the former Soviet Union attacked a Gypsy settlement in Aspropyrgos on the north-western outskirts of Athens.
4 February 2004 (91 words)
European Court finds Greece guilty of violating religious freedom
The European Court of Human Rights has found that Greece violated the right to religious freedom by imposing in 1999 a four month prison sentence on Mehmet Emi Aga, an ethnic Turkish Muslim.
1 December 2003 (65 words)
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