Communist terrorism

US Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt (center right) and Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis (center left) break ground for the renovation of the American Embassy in Athens on Wednesday. "This is a very, very big week for the US-Greece relationship as we get ready for the Thessaloniki International Fair. Truly a landmark event in our partnership with Greece," Pyatt said.

A convicted November 17 killer has been transferred from the high-security Korydallos Prison in Athens, a week after a fellow member of the group was moved to an agricultural prison.

On Monday, Christodoulos Xiros was transferred to a Halkida prison on the island of Evia.

Panagiota Roupa, a leading member of domestic terrorist group Revolutionary Struggle, was on Wednesday given a life term, and an additional 25-year sentence, for a car bomb attack outside the Bank of Greece headquarters in central Athens in April 2014.

A convicted hitman who belonged to the now defunct November 17 terror group Christodoulos Xiros went on hunger strike on Friday to protest what he describes as his "undignified" isolation at the Korydallos maximum-security prison in western Athens.

A leading member of the now disbanded terrorist group November 17 returned to Korydallos prison on Thursday morning after a 48-hour furlough.

Dimitris Koufodinas had gone on a hunger strike for almost two weeks because authorities refused to give him a leave of absence from prison.

Turkey condemned on Wednesday the two-day prison leave granted this week to Dimitris Koufodinas, the jailed shooter of disbanded terrorist group November 17.

A leading member of November 17, Greece's most deadly guerrilla group, left Korydallos prison on Tuesday morning after being granted his third two-day leave from prison.

Dimitris Koufodinas had gone on a hunger strike for almost two weeks because authorities refused to give him a leave of absence from prison. He was transferred to Nikaia state hospital earlier in the month.

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.

In a strongly worded tweet Tuesday, the US Embassy in Athens condemned the two attacks on the Hellenic American Union offices in Thessaloniki and Athens by anarchist groups who support hunger-striker and jailed terrorist Dimitris Koufodinas.

The US embassy in Athens on Tuesday strongly condemned the two attacks on the Hellenic American Union offices in Thessaloniki and Athens by anarchist groups who support hunger-striker and jailed terrorist Dimitris Koufodinas.

"We strongly condemn the recent attacks on American educational institutions in Thessaloniki and Athens," the embassy said in a tweet.