Austerity measures adopted over the past decade continued to erode the accessibility and affordability of health care. Allegations of torture and other ill-treatment and excessive use of force by police persisted. More pushbacks of refugees and migrants at land and sea were reported. In a historic...

Amnesty International is deeply concerned about the prosecution of two Amnesty International activists indicted on several misdemeanor charges following their arrest by police after a protest in November 2022.

Ahead of the hearing on 6 March 2023, before the Council of State, Greece’s Supreme Administrative Court, of the case of Thomas Katsaros, whose application for the status of conscientious objector to military service has been rejected by the Minister of National Defence, Amnesty International,...

Amnesty International is seriously concerned over the arbitrary deprivation of liberty of a member of staff of Amnesty International’s Greek Section, who was taken to a police station for an identity check in the evening of 14 December 2022 following questions raised to police officers at a...

Today, Amnesty International filed a Collective Complaint with the Council of Europe’s European Committee of Social Rights, alleging that the Government of Greece violated provisions of the European Social Charter concerning the rights to health and non-discrimination because of the impact of...

Ahead of the hearing before the Council of State, Greece’s Supreme Administrative Court, of the cases of Charis Vasileiou and Nikolas Stefanidis, conscientious objectors to military service whose applications have been rejected by the Deputy Minister of National Defence, Amnesty International,...

Amnesty International is deeply concerned about the pending trial of two human rights defenders on a charge of “false accusation” against a senior leader of the Orthodox Church in Greece. The charge stems from an official complaint submitted by the human rights defenders under an anti-racism law...

This submission has been prepared ahead of the adoption of the List of Issues Prior to Reporting (LOIPR) for Greece by the UN Committee Against Torture in April and May 2022. The information included in this submission is a non-exhaustive selection of Amnesty International’s concerns regarding...

Amnesty International is concerned about the punitive and discriminatory nature of a fine of 100 Euro per month which will be imposed on people over 60 if they do not comply with compulsory vaccination for COVID-19, following the adoption of a legal provision by the Greek Parliament last week. Such...

This submission has been prepared ahead of the adoption of the List of Issues Prior to Reporting for Greece by the UN Human Rights Committee in October and November 2021. The information included in this submission is a non-exhaustive selection of Amnesty International’s concerns regarding Greece’s...

Ahead of the hearing before the Council of State, Greece’s Supreme Administrative Court, of the case of Charis Vasileiou, a conscientious objector whose application has been rejected by the Deputy Minister of National Defence, Amnesty International, together with four other NGOs call on the Greek...

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and especially during the country’s second lockdown, Greece took a series of measures that have put the right to freedom of peaceful assembly at risk. They include detrimental legislative reforms regulating demonstrations; blanket bans on demonstrations;...

Years after Amnesty International first reported pushbacks of refugees and migrants from Greece in 2013, Greece is still violently and illegally returning people to Turkey, in contravention of their human rights obligations under EU and international law. Amnesty International documented 21 new...