Translation: Gigi Papoulias For three days, Solomon's website was by far the most popular website in Greece and possibly in the entire Balkan region — receiving more than 220 million hits in just 72 hours. But, unfortunately, the “visitors” to our site did not...
Illustration: Spoovio In September last year, when the mother and younger brother of Greek-Nigerian NBA star Giannis Antetokounmpo were granted honorary Greek citizenship in a special ceremony in Athens, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was in attendance. When...
Greece planned and has begun implementing two surveillance systems directed at asylum seekers and partly financed with European Union pandemic-recovery funds in violation of data privacy protections set down by the bloc’s General Data Protection Regulation, Solomon...
Visual: Spoovio Translation: Gigi Papoulias On Thursday, July 29, 2022, the Greek Parliament's Committee of Institutions and Transparency held a meeting regarding the surveillance of journalists and politicians, following the discovery that there was an attempt to...
Proof read: Gigi Papoulias The recent condemnation of Greece by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) for an incident that occured near Farmakonisi in 2014, where eleven asylum seekers died at sea when the boat they were in was forced back to Turkey by a Greek...
Visual: Galateia Iatraki Proof read: Gigi Papoulias Whether it’s their ultimate destination or not, many refugees arriving in Greece consider the country a safer place where they can start re-gaining a relatively more normal life. It is not necessarily the case...
Visualization: Spoovio Proof-read: Gigi Papoulias Nasrin didn’t want to give birth inside the camp. After the family was told their transfer to Germany had been accepted, she was hoping she’d be able to travel before giving birth. She was 27 years old, pregnant with...
Images: Nikos Pilos Translation: Gigi Papoulias As Miodrag Živković recounts the events surrounding the expropriation of his land by the Zijin company, the unyielding smell of sulfur and ashes invades the nostrils. Slatina, where the 58-year-old's family has lived for...
Illustration: Fanis Kollias A long-awaited decision issued by the European Court of Human Rights on April 5, on a case regarding a violent pushback of approximately 1,500 asylum seekers into Greece via North Macedonia in 2016, has raised concerns for the state of...
