Civil disobedience

Students and medical workers faced off against riot police in a protest over reforms by President Emmanuel Macron's government on April 5.

A new panel set up in the wake of a spate of lawlessness at Greek universities, chiefly to curb the widespread use of drugs on campuses, convened on Tuesday, with members proposing the use of volunteers and instructive seminars.

A police officer was sentenced to two years and one month in jail on March 21 for shooting and killing Ethem Sarısülük during the 2013 Gezi Park protests. The sentence was later converted into a punitive fine. 

Turkish educators Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça, who went on hunger strike after being dismissed from their jobs by a state of emergency decree, have announced the end of their hunger strike after 324 days. 

Convicted November 17 terrorist Christodoulos Xiros was rushed to the Papanikolaou Hospital in Thessaloniki on Friday for reasons that were not made public though they are believed to be connected to his ongoing hunger strike.

Xiros, who is serving multiple life sentences at Diavata Prison, has been on hunger strike for three weeks, demanding improved detention conditions.

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Small groups of youths have clashed with Greek police before a demonstration to mark the ninth anniversary of the fatal police shooting of a teenager in Athens that sparked the worst rioting Greece had seen in decades.

A court in central Vietnam on Nov. 27 sentenced an activist to seven years in prison for producing online videos and interviews related to an environmental disaster that instigated anti-government protests, in the authorities’ latest crackdown on dissent.

Tens of thousands of Romanians gathered on Sunday in Bucharest and in other towns and cities to demand the withdrawal of justice-related laws that will give more power to politicians over judiciary system.

Over 42 civic groups and non-governmental organizations, as well as the most powerful unions, asked people to attend the rallies to protest against the proposals.

Fourteen refugees who had been on a hunger strike for two weeks while camped on Syntagma Square in central Athens ended their action on Tuesday.