Vassilis Tsarnas
@vassilistsarnas.bsky.social
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Greek Helsinki Monitor & Humanist Union of Greece Researching: human rights / minority rights / discrimination / hate speech / free speech / secularism / police violence / far-right / rule of law Queer 🌈🌈🌈
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🎈📢 Greek Helsinki Monitor, that has submitted the application, is very satisfied with this seminal #ECtHR judgment that included multiple violations by #Greece for the ill-treatment of 3 #Roma & the multiple flaws of the administrative & criminal investigations. Greek police & 1/
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📢 #Greece: 26 #RefugeesGr "are in urgent need of help.. on.. Farmokinisi. There are pregnant women, [some] are sick.. they haven’t eaten in 3 days..
They.. seek asylum.. we.. call on their immediate rescue & transfer to a camp.. or hospital "
#StopPushBacks www.facebook.com/share/1RVsZy...
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meredithmeredith.bsky.social
📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
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We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...
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vassilistsarnas.bsky.social
📢 #Greece: Ali Ahmed, a Pakistani migrant, was attacked by a racist gang on a bus in Aspropyrgos, on 1/10. Police did nothing & illegally asked him to pay €100 to file charges, to prevent him. He later filed a complaint with the Police's Racist Violence Unit.
#racism
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📢 Athens, Today: #Greece's First "Self-Organised #Trans Pride (...) We are the scapegoats made in the news. We are a threat to the nation. We are the guilty secret buried under the family table (...)
We call - on 4/10, in Klafthmonos Square at 17:00"
#transphobia
mobile.kinimatorama.net/event/181368
vassilistsarnas.bsky.social
Thank you. I was searching and couldn't find how he identifies.
vassilistsarnas.bsky.social
"EU chief prosecutor Laura Kövesi ramped up pressure on Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Thursday, urging constitutional reform to scrap immunity rules that shield ministers from corruption probes involving EU funds."
#Greece #RuleOfLaw
www.euractiv.com/news/eus-top...
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vassilistsarnas.bsky.social
"Extreme, persistent impoverishment & marginalization of people with #disabilities in #Greece (...) the 2nd-worst record in the EU when it comes to the living conditions of PwD, acc. to new data from the National Confederation of Disabled People"
www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2025/09/29/p...
Extreme impoverishment and marginalization of people with disabilities in Greece
Extreme, persistent impoverishment and marginalization of people with disabilities in Greece, with the country to have the second-worst record
www.keeptalkinggreece.com
vassilistsarnas.bsky.social
📢 2 announcements by "The Observatory" on #Greece: One on the last alleged new felony charge against @panayote.bsky.social which is "announced" by the State News Agency. & one on threats to remove NGOs from the Ministry of Asylum registry.
"🇬🇷 must let HRDs work freely"‼️
www.fidh.org/en/region/eu...
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📢 Gerhard Ermischer, the President of the @coe.int INGOs Conference, about #Greece (and not only): "NGOs were accused of illegal political action because they defended #HumanRights (...) a truly hopeless situation, which (...) also calls into question the foundations of Democracy & the #RuleOfLaw."
efsyntakton.bsky.social
Ο εμμονικός πόλεμος του πρώτου κατά της Κοινωνίας των Πολιτών και οι προκλήσεις του δεύτερου για το Διεθνές Ποινικό Δικαστήριο, θα οδηγούσαν με μαθηματική ακρίβεια σε διεθνές ρεζίλεμα της Ελλάδας.
Πλεύρης και Γεωργιάδης εκθέτουν την Ελλάδα στο Συμβούλιο της Ευρώπης
«Απελπιστική κατάσταση σχετικά με τη μεταχείριση των ΜΚΟ» διαπίστωσε επί λέξει εκπρόσωπος του οργανισμού.
www.efsyn.gr
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christinaayiotis.bsky.social
“It has become known as Greece's Watergate: spyware software and Greek intelligence targeted the mobile phones of government ministers, senior military officers, judges and journalists.” www.bbc.com/news/article...
Phone spyware scandal deepens in Greece as four appear in court
Two Israelis and two Greeks are allegedly involved with marketing spy software known as Predator.
www.bbc.com
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📢 #Greece: Johnny Mouassame, an artist & peddler from Sierra Leone, was reportedly the victim of #torture in the notorious Omonia police station, Athens, on 12 & 15/9. He was beaten unconscious as they said “we'll f* you #black, if we kill you & nothing will happen”.
www.facebook.com/share/p/1K8d...
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📢 #Greece: Konstantinos Plevris, the patriarch of 🇬🇷 neo-nazism is on trial tomorrow, following a criminal complaint filed by Greek Helsinki Monitor, for a #Nazi salute he gave inside the courtroom, being the lawyer of G. Lagos, a #GoldenDawn MEP at the time.
www.facebook.com/share/16S7Xe...
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isabella-cortese.bsky.social
Father of murdered Denni Roussi, begins hunger and thirst strike:
He demands that exhumation of his son's remains be allowed - something the government denies in order to cover up the criminal operations that led to the death of 57 citizens during a train ride from Thessaloniki to Athens
Beware.
vassilistsarnas.bsky.social
📢 #Greece's Minister of the Police investing in systemic #antigypsyism: “The next step we’re taking is (...) the installation of uniformed, specialized police officers inside #Roma camps".
(He also calls this FBI, maybe he thinks 🇬🇷 is a Federal State...)
www.ekathimerini.com/in-depth/soc...