Punishments

Police on Thursday were seeking three Albanian men who escaped from a detention unit on Petrou Ralli Street shortly after midnight on Wednesday. 

Two of the detainees were being held pending trial on drugs charges, the third for manslaughter.

A Georgian national also tried to escape with the three men but was caught.

The government is planning an overhaul of fines on undeclared labor that will be reduced, but accompanied with the full payment of workers' contributions, Labor and Social Security Minister Effie Achtsioglou stated.

The prosecutor in the case has requested the release of hunger striking educator Nuriye Gülmen on probation, stating that “there is no risk of escape.”

The inspection plans of Greece's tax authorities have been upended by the decisions of the Council of State and the case law of the European Union, forcing the government to proceed to the adjustment of fines imposed on tax dodgers.

The Belgrade Higher Court has handed down suspended sentences of five and six months to four indictees charged with setting fire to the US embassy in 2008.

By the court's decision, three of those accused have been acquitted.

The sentences will not be enforced if the convicted persons refrain from committing new criminal offenses within two years.

Traffic code violators will only pay what they can afford under new regulations announced on Monday by Transport Minister Christos Spirtzis, who argued that plans to peg the size of fines to violators' tax declarations are designed to crack down on wealthy offenders who aren't fazed by existing fines.

Fines from the Traffic Police can now be paid online as well - through the "Easypay" platform, announced Dnevnik.

Canada has deported hundreds of people to countries designated too dangerous for civilians, with more than half of those people being sent back to Iraq, according to government data obtained by Reuters.

Turkey's Council of State has stopped the execution of a regulation on chemical castration, which was introduced last year against sex offenders, on the grounds that it can "lead to hard-to-recover and unrepairable damages."

The early released this year will reach a record number. From the beginning of the year to July 21, prisoners released before serving their entire sentence were 632, according to Directorate-General for Execution of Penalties. If the pace persists, by the end of the year there will be another 451 people. This will lead to a record 1083.