Europe
Archaeology
European Court of Human Rights Throws Out First Legal Bid to Return the Elgin Marbles to Greece [video]
It has been 200 years since Greece was robbed of its famous marble Parthenon sculptures, known around the world as the so-called “Elgin Marbles.”
Just when it seemed that these 2,500-year-old marbles might actually be returned to their home in Athens,...
Europe
France: The European Court of Human Rights Delivers Its Verdict on the Inability of Greeks Living Abroad to Vote in Parliamentary Elections
In today’s Grand Chamber judgment in the case Sitaropoulos and Giakoumopoulos v. Greece, which is final, the European Court of Human Rights delivered the unanimous verdict that: The inability of Greeks living abroad to vote in parliamentary elections from...
Europe
European Court of Human Rights Convicts Greek Coast Guard of Immigrant’s Torture
On Tuesday, January 17, the European Court of Human Rights found that Greek Coast Guard officials tortured Necati Zontul when he was raped in detention at the port of Chania, Crete, in 2001, and ordered Greece to pay 50,000...
Europe
European Court of Human Rights Convicts Turkey of Violating the Protection of Greek-Cypriot Property
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Turkey will pay nearly 15 million Euros in compensation to 19 Greek Cypriot applicants, as Anatolia news agency reports from Strasbourg. On September 22nd and October 27th, 2009, the court convicted...
Europe
AI Machine Cannot Be Called an Inventor, UK Court Rules
In an important decision, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom has declared that a machine cannot be credited as the inventor of new products or ideas in a patent. This ruling addresses the important question of who, or...
Europe
Albania Court Rules Greek Minority Leader Beleri to Stay in Prison
A court in Albania ruled that ethnic Greek minority leader Fredi Beleri, who won the mayoral elections in the city of Himara recently, should remain in prison until his trial.
Beleri was arrested two days before the 14 May local...
Europe
International Criminal Court Issues Arrest Warrant for Putin
Arrest warrants have been issued for war crimes by judges at the International Criminal Court for Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Commissioner for Children's Rights.
In a statement, the ICC says they are suspected of the war crime of...
Europe
Greek Scientists in London Invent ‘Judge’ That Can Predict Court Outcome
Two Greek scientists from the University College of London (UCL) and the University of Sheffield have devised an algorithm that can predict the outcome of complaints filed by applicants to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) with 79...
Europe
Austria: Troika Violates Human Rights in Greece
According to a report by the Austrian Trade Union Federation and the Austrian Chamber of Labor, the policy that troika is implementing in Greece violates human rights and the European law.
Andreas Fischer-Lescano, professor of European law in the University...
Crime
Greece in 7th Place for Human Rights Violations
According to the annual report of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) released on Thursday, January 30 by the president of the Court Dean Spielmann, Greece is in 7th place for recorded human rights violations.
In particular, the annual...
Europe
Greek Vindicated for Turkish Property Rights Violation
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) announced their decision earlier on Tuesday, condemning Turkey for violating the right to property, in the case concerning the refusal of the Turkish authorities to recognize the inherited property of a Greek...
Europe
EU Court Issues Ruling Against Greece for “Inhuman Treatment” of Refugees
The European Court of Justice issued today (14 November) a ruling slamming Greece for mistreating asylum seekers.
The Court ruled that a refugee from Iran who had arrived in Germany from Greece should not be returned to the Greek authorities...
Europe
Same-sex Couples Appeal to European Court of Justice
The plenary session of Human Rights will decide at a public hearing on November 7, for the appeal submitted by Gregory Valianatos and eight other Greek nationals seeking to extend the law which recognizes the cohabitation between unmarried heterosexual...
Europe
ECHR Rules that Greece Violated Human Rights
European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Greece has violated the human rights of an immigrant from Afghanistan. Greece was sentenced for keeping a minor refugee from Afghanistan in a migrant holding center under unacceptable living conditions, along...
Education
EU Court Blasts Greece on Roma
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), which is based in Strasbourg, France, condemned Greece for violating the European Convention on Human Rights provisions about the right to education.
The case, Lavida and Others v. Greece concerning, according to the...