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Four prominent international organizations representing magistrates have issued a resounding call to action, urging the Council of Europe and the European Union to intervene swiftly in response to alarming threats faced by Bulgarian judges.

The nine adults out of 21 arrested for attacking two transgender individuals late on Saturday were released after being presented before the first instance court in the northern port city of Thessaloniki on Monday. 

The Thessaloniki court postponed the trial due to the absence of witnesses.

A request by two prosecutors last year to check whether the 92 people targeted by illegal spyware Predator had also been surveilled by the country's intelligence service, EYP, remains pending four months after it was submitted to the independent authority responsible for privacy, ADAE.

A judge has been dismissed from the judiciary over her extremely tardy handling of dozens of cases, following a unanimous decision by the Supreme Court's 48-member disciplinary committee.

Several complaints had been lodged about the judge, not just by lawyers but also defendants and plaintiffs, over the years.

Donald Trump is the first former president of the United States to face criminal charges - 91 of them, to be precise, in four cases. Also, in three states he was barred from being a candidate in the Republican Party primaries for this year's presidential election.

The Supreme Court's intervention in the Tempe train collision investigation shows that the judiciary, at least, understands that the institutions are under the public's microscope in this case, and that it is of the greatest importance to restore citizens' faith in them.

Relatives of the victims of the Tempe train collision in central Greece in late February last year attend a press conference on Monday at the Journalists' Union of Athens Daily Newspapers (ESIEA) headquarters.

Supreme Court Prosecutor Georgia Adeilini has issued an order to the prosecutor's office in the appeals court of Larissa, in central Greece, which oversees the investigations into last year's deadly railway crash in the nearby Tempe Valley, to comprehensively clarify "every claim and every allegation" regarding the disaster to ensure there is no shadow over the investigation.

The Supreme Court of Greece announced its decision on Wednesday to extradite 54-year-old Ali Yesildag to Turkey. The Turkish national had close family and professional ties with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan before accusing Erdogan of corruption involving hundreds of millions of dollars.

The resolution adopted last week by the European Parliament regarding press freedom and the threat to the rule of law in Greece was slammed on Thursday by the plenary of the Supreme Court as direct interference in the work of the Greek judicial authorities, regarding a series of cases that are pending before the courts, with unproven and unsubstantiated allegations.