Activism

After meeting Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and Justice Minister Haralambos Athanasiou on Monday, the father of hunger striker Nikos Romanos said on Monday that there has been no breakthrough in his dispute with the government.

“I think they will discuss it again and I hope they find a solution,” said Giorgos Romanos, whose son entered the 29th day of his hunger strike on Monday.

Hüseyin Üzmez, a sexual abuse convict and former columnist of the hardline Islamist daily Yeni Akit, has died in an Ankara hospital

The world's largest toymaker Lego said it was ending a deal with oil giant Shell, bowing to pressure from a Greenpeace campaign linking Lego toys to Arctic oil spills

Romanian MP Aurelian Mihai, who has been on a hunger strike for eight days in a protest aimed at curbing consular taxes, was taken from the Parliament by ambulance on Wednesday to Bucharest Emergency University Hospital on his request, immediately after he had given a news conference to explain his protest.

A UN Security Council committee blacklisted more than a dozen foreign extremist fighters tied to militant groups

Hong Kong students Monday began a week-long boycott of classes, gathering in their thousands for what democracy activists say will be a wider campaign of civil disobedience against China's refusal to grant the city unfettered democracy.

Festival canceled after reports neo-Nazi would perform

NOVI BEČEJ -- The organizers of the Kamp Pustai Music Festival in Novi Bečej have the event, tanjug is reporting.

This came after accusations that the festival program features the performance of Hungarian neo-Nazi Balazs Sziva and his rock band.

A coalition of activists said on Aug. 12 they would send a flotilla of ships to break Israel's siege of Gaza by the end of 2014, fours years after a similar campaign ended in a deadly raid by Israeli commandos.
      
"We plan to send the flotilla during 2014," the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, which includes activists from at least 10 countries, said in Istanbul.        

Calls are growing for a boycott of Israeli products in Turkey, with a number of professional associations urging consumers to refrain from buying goods from a list of companies prepared following Israel’s recent Gaza operations.

A 32-year-old inmate of Domokos Prison in central Greece was killed and a second man seriously injured early on Friday when a brawl broke out between cellmates at the institution.

For reasons that remained unclear, the two cellmates argued before drawing makeshift knives on each other.

The second inmate was hospitalized with serious injuries sustained during the fight.