Nikos Michaloliakos

Workers at Greek state broadcaster ERT will be walking off the job on Friday evening in a strike scheduled to coincide with a pre-election speech by far-right Golden Dawn leader Nikos Michaloliakos.

In an announcement earlier in the day, their union, POSPERT, said that the broadcaster would be showing reruns between 7 and 9 p.m. in protest at the party's "Nazi sermons of hate."

Greece's Golden Dawn sustained significant losses in the two recent election races in Greece. In its former stronghold of Laconia in the Peloponnese, the neo-Nazi party lost more than 50 percent of the support it had in the 2014 European Parliament elections in last month's contest.

Neo-Nazi MEP Yiannis Lagos will need to apply for a special permit to travel before he can assume his responsibilities in European Parliament, as the terms of his parole prohibit him from leaving the country.

Supreme Court deputy prosecutor Panagiotis Brakoumatsos has challenged a ruling by an Athens court that cleared Nikos Michaloliakos, the leader of neo-Nazi Golden Dawn, of incitement to criminal behavior, it emerged on Wednesday.

Hundreds of extreme-right Golden Dawn party supporters protested the construction of a state-funded mosque - the capital's first - at a rally in Athens Thursday.

No arrests were reported during the demonstration which was held at the construction site of the mosque near central Athens.

Several hundred supporters of Greece's extreme right Golden Dawn party  staged a protest near central Athens on Wednesday evening against plans to build a state-funded mosque in the Greek capital.

Authorities used riot police buses to block roads near the construction site during the rally, which ended with no reported arrests.

Two of the perpetrators of an attack on an anarchist squat in Piraeus in February, which injured three people, have been identified as members of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, Kathimerini understands.

As she waits for her son, a Golden Dawn party MP, to come out of jail, Dafni wipes a collection of rifles sitting on a weapons rack in their family home. Behind her, sunlight streams through a swastika-shaped grille on the window.

An Athens court handed the leader of the far-right Golden Dawn party, Nikos Michaloliakos, a suspended eight-month prison sentence on Friday after finding him guilty of inciting violence during a speech at a rally in 2011.

An Athens criminal court on Wednessday found Christos Zervos, a member of the far-right Golden Dawn party, guilty of causing grievous bodily harm in connection with an attack on a student in March outside the party headquarters on Mesogeion Avenue, northern Athens.