Civil disobedience

When a political party decides to boycott a specific media outlet for whatever reason, it doesn't really achieve anything tangible.

Here in Greece, such practices were started by SYRIZA and other similar forces, but media boycotts happen all over the world, called for by all sorts of parties when they don't like what they see or hear on the news or on political talk shows.

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania's prime minister has defended the use of force by riot police during a violent anti-government protest that left more than 450 people injured.

Turkey's Constitutional Court has ruled that the case of two citizens convicted of staging an unpermitted demonstration during the Gezi Park protests' href='/search/Gezi Park protests'>Gezi Park protests in 2013 should be retried.

The leader of the Moria community on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos ended on Wednesday a hunger strike which he had started on Sunday in protest at overcrowding at the Moria reception center.

Kostas Bakoyiannis, the Regional governor of Central Greece, decried on Tuesday a decision by prison authorities to grant a 48-hour prison leave to the jailed shooter of disbanded terrorist group November 17, who went on a two-week-long hunger strike.

Jailed November 17 terrorist Dimitris Koufodinas, who had gone on a hunger strike for almost two weeks, was released from the Nikaia state hospital on Monday.

He was to be returned to Korydallos maximum security prison before he is granted his third 48-hour furlough.

Twenty members of anarchist group Rouvikonas attempted to barge into the Citizens Protection Ministry on Monday morning but were prevented by the ministry's guards.

Police said in a press release the suspects were stopped at the outer perimeter of the building, on Kanellopoulou avenue, detained and transferred at the Attica Security Directorate. 

Hundreds marched on May 31 through the centre of Istanbul to mark five years since the Gezi Park protests that shook Turkey. Here is the story of the march in photos (AFP)

Turkish protesters hold banners reading "Free Palestine" and "Struggle to return back home continue for 70 years" as they stage a demonstration near the US embassy, in Ankara, on May 15, 2018.

Rallies staged by small groups of protesters which bring the Greek capital to a standstill for hours on end have again started to become an frustratingly common occurrence.

Athens is one of the very few cities where a group of, say, 20-30 individuals has the power to paralyze the downtown area, causing trouble for workers, visitors and motorists alike.