Archive for February, 2008
From the Athens News
PIRAEUS Mayor Panayotis Fasoulas has decided to create a special committee to assess the problems faced by his municipality’s immigrant residents and help local officials find solutions. This is part of the municipality’s local immigrant integration initiative.
A total of nine Piraeus municipal council members and four local immigrant community representatives will sit […]
Here are two more articles about the blog that has triggered controversy about anonymous blogging in Greece.
From Kathimerini
Authorities are broadening their investigation into the press-gr news blog after indications the site was being supplied with information from someone using a computer inside Parliament.
Authorities are continuing to look into the blog spot after journalist Andreas Kapsampelis, […]
Greek Bloggers, Lawsuits and the Future
16 Comments Published by deviousdiva February 26th, 2008 in Blogging.Don’t Kiss The Frog has an extremely interesting (and rather worrying) post up about Greek bloggers and new laws which are being drawn up.
according to the Eleftheros Typos newspaper, the government has already prepared legislation to deal with the issue of bloggers gone wild. The new law will treat informational(sic) blogs like newspapers. The name […]
I have been thinking long and hard about what I should do about comments on this blog and I have reached a decision that I am happy with for now. The policy I have come up with is in four parts:
ONE:
People commenting for the first time will need approval from me before their comment will […]
Two related articles in the Athens News this week about the conditions in police stations and prisons in Greece.
Firstly, the Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) has stated that there has been no improvement in how law enforcement officials treat detainees.
A report published by the Strasbourg-based CPT on February 8 says there has […]
Under terms of a European agreement signed in Dublin, asylum seekers can be returned to the European country where they first applied for refugee status. Norway sent 74 asylum seekers back to Greece last year, on the basis of that agreement. The country has since decided to stop sending people back because of serious problems […]
Comments Closed Until Further Notice
Closed Published by deviousdiva February 24th, 2008 in Personal.I am not going to either answer the insults or justify this blog.
Some of you just filled up one sand-pit with rubbish and when I closed it, you found another one to play in. Very silly. You are not addressing the issues or discussing anything actually. Just seeing who can shout the loudest.
I don’t […]
Freedom of Thought, Conscience and Religion
Closed Published by deviousdiva February 22nd, 2008 in Human Rights.Greek Helsinki Monitor (GHM) expresses great satisfaction with today’s European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) unanimous conviction of Greece in the Case of Alexandridis v. Greece. The application No. 19516/2006 was submitted to the ECtHR by GHM and concerned GHM’s legal counselor Theodore Alexandridis. According to the ECtHR, Greece violated Articles 9 (freedom of thought, […]
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From the IPS (Inter Press Service)
“Who are you with?” an excited fellow around 20 years old asked a journalist standing by, looking at riot police surrounding the main University of Athens building in downtown Athens.
Not receiving an answer he said, “I am from the Golden Dawn, and we keep an eye on journalists, because you […]
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Norway Stops Returning Asylum Seekers to Greece
55 Comments Published by deviousdiva February 19th, 2008 in Asylum, Personal.From Aftenposten
Norway has stopped returning asylum seekers to Greece, following reports that they’ve have been abused and deported to their countries of origin without due process. Some of Norway’s biggest law firms, meanwhile, are offering to help refugees whose appeals have been rejected by Norwegian officials.
And this is the reason why
Norwegian officials are now concerned, […]
This is the second real snowfall that I have experienced since living in Athens. This time, I’m really feeling the cold because we have no central heating (just one electric radiator). It’s too cold to blog but I just wanted to say…Greece is beautiful.
Dysfunctional but beautiful.
And I love the quiet that came with the snowfall.
See […]
A child is dead
The full article is here at Dying to emigrate
[I have corrected the text in two places (there were no spaces between the words). I have not changed the article in any way]
The Greek port town of Patra is a key route for migrants (mainly Afghanis and Iraqis) dreaming of starting a new […]
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