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Greece Athens Court of Misdemeanours 2014 Greece / Athens Single-Member Court of Misdemeanours / Decision 65738/2014 / Case of Alexandros Plomaritis Race/Ethnicity Migrants, Refugees & asylum seekers The Athens Single-Members Court of Misdemeanours convicted a known Golden Dawn Member and MP candidate under article 1 of the Anti-Racist Law 927/1979, which punishes the public incitement of violence or hate. He was convicted to one year imprisonment and a three-year suspended sentence for referring to migrants, inter alia, as “sub-human” and “taints” during an interview for a documentary that was aired on Channel 4 with the title "The Cleaners". The Court attempted to clarify the… View more
Greece First Instance Court of Thessaloniki 2014 Greece / First Instance Court of Thessaloniki Race/Ethnicity Black people or of African origin, Migrants In April 2013, a public bus driver in Thessaloniki was accused of discrimination. He stopped the bus and ordered two African passengers to get off the bus, claiming that they were not holding valid tickets. According to witnesses the actual motive was related to the racial origin of the two passengers, since, after they got off, the driver screamed that he was "chrysafgitis", i.e. a fan of the Golden Dawn, and showed a medallion with the symbol of the “Golden Dawn” party in an effort… View more
Greece Mixed Jury Court of Athens 2014 Greece / Mixed Jury Court of Athens /Decision 398/2014 / Shehzad Luqman Case Race/Ethnicity, Religion, Race/Ethnicity Migrants, Muslims The Mixed Jury Court of Athens convicted two men with alleged ties to the Golden Dawn party for murdering Shehzad Luqman, a 27 year-old worker from Pakistan on his way to work. The Judgment of the Court was the first to examine the elements capable of establishing a racist motive such as the circumstances of the attack, the vulnerability and identity of the victim and the modus operandi of the perpetrators. The accused were sentenced to life in prison with the aggravating circumstance of racist… View more
Greece Misdemeanour Court of Thessaloniki 2015 Greece / Three-member Misdemeanour Court of Thessaloniki / Decision on Appeal / Public Bus Driver case Race/Ethnicity, Race/Ethnicity Black people or of African origin The three-member Misdemeanour Court of Thessaloniki sentenced, following an appeal, a driver of OASTH (Organisation of Public Transport in Thessaloniki) to eight months' imprisonment, a suspension for three years and a fine of 1000 euros for discriminatory behaviour and denying services to two black passengers on a bus. This was the first case where a violation of anti-discrimination law was prosecuted on the initiative of the prosecutor, i.e. without a victim needing to press charges… View more
Greece Third Single-Member Felony Appeals Court of Athens 2015 Greece / Third Single-Member Felony Appeals Court of Athens / Third Single-Member Felony Appeals Court of Athens / Bademi and others case Race/Ethnicity Foreigners The Felony Appeals Court of Athens in May 2015 found three men guilty of attacking two women during a national parade on October 28, 2011 because they were considered “foreigners”. Throughout the trial their links to the Golden Dawn party were considered a determining factor for establishing a racist motive behind the offences. This was the second time a Greek Court condemned perpetrators for carrying out a crime with a bias motive (the first was the Luqman Decision above). They were convicted… View more
Greece Court of Appeal 2016 Greece / Piraeus five-member Court of Appeal / Decision no. / Walid Taleb case Race/Ethnicity, Migrant status Migrants The Court of Appeal of Piraeus upheld the first-degree judgment convicting Walid Talib’s former boss, and two of his friends for his abduction, inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent, and robbery. Walid was an Egyptian national without legal documents who was attacked in November 2012 and subsequently, robbed, tortured and assaulted. The text of the Judgement has not been published, yet during the examination of the case, the prosecutor confirmed that the acts were carried out due to… View more
Greece Misdemeanour Court of Rethymno 2016 Greece / Single Member Misdemeanour Court of Rethymno / Decision 2383/2015 Nationality EU citizens & nationals with migrant background The Misdemeanour Court of Rethymnon acquitted Professor Richter and put an end to his prosecution for denying, undermining and approving the war crimes committed by Germans in Crete during the Nazi occupation in his book “The Battle of Crete”. This was the first case to examine hate speech in light of the Council Framework Decision 2008/913/JHA, of 28 November, on combating certain forms and expressions of racism and xenophobia by means of criminal law. View more
Greece European Court of Human Rights 2017 Greece / ECtHR/Application
no. 17249/10/Gjikondi and Others v. Greece
Race/Ethnicity Migrants The case concerned the murder of an Albanian national, L. B., by an unidentified individual in central Athens. The applicants are the deceased’s parents and sister. The Court found in particular that the competent authorities had not dealt with the case with the necessary diligence, and that the question of the existence of a racist motive had not been examined. View more
Greece Greek Council of Radio television - ESR (Ελληνικό Συμβούλιο Ραδιοτηλεόρασης - ΕΣΡ) 2018 Greece / Greek Council of Radio television/Decision No. 155/2018 Race/Ethnicity, Race/Ethnicity Black people or of African origin The case concerns hate speech during a sports broadcasting. The host referred to a famous basket ball player with the derogatory terms 'negro' and 'ape'. The case was brought before the ESR by the General Secretariat of Human Rights (Ministry of Justice) and three citizens. The respondent broadcasting company was considered liable for the host's behaviour and forced to pay administrative fines and shut down their channel for 24 hours. View more
Greece Mixed-Jury Appeals Court of Athens (Μικτό Ορκωτό Εφετείο Αθηνών) 2019 Greece / Mixed-Jury Appeals Court of Athens/Decision on the Appeal against Decision No. 398/2014 of the Mixed-Jury Court of Athens/Luqman Case Race/Ethnicity, Religion, Race/Ethnicity Migrants, Muslims The Decision of the Appeals Court upheld on a unanimous vote the verdict of the first instance court. The Mixed Jury Court of Athens convicted two men with alleged ties to the Golden Dawn party for murdering a 27 year-old worker from Pakistan on his way to work. The case was introduced to the courts as a ‘quarrel gone wrong’ however the Judgment of the Court was the first to examine the elements capable of establishing a racist motivation such as the circumstances of the attack, the… View more
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