Vassilis Tsarnas
@vassilistsarnas.bsky.social
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
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Researching: human rights / minority rights / discrimination / hate speech / free speech / secularism / police violence / far-right / rule of law
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#Greece: A Court acquitted a Sudanese refugee accused of "smuggling" & represented by the @gcrefugees.bsky.social, yesterday. ‼️BUT: He had been separated from his family & jailed for 8 months, for steering a sinking, adrift boat, to save all #RefugeesGr on board...
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November 20, 2025 at 11:11 AM
#Greece: A Court acquitted a Sudanese refugee accused of "smuggling" & represented by the @gcrefugees.bsky.social, yesterday. ‼️BUT: He had been separated from his family & jailed for 8 months, for steering a sinking, adrift boat, to save all #RefugeesGr on board...
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#Greece: The Hellenic League for Human Rights said in a statement today that banning public assemblies at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Athens, violates the Constitution & the #ECHR. Anarchists were recently arrested only for protesting at the spot #FreedomOfAssembly
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November 19, 2025 at 12:38 PM
#Greece: The Hellenic League for Human Rights said in a statement today that banning public assemblies at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Athens, violates the Constitution & the #ECHR. Anarchists were recently arrested only for protesting at the spot #FreedomOfAssembly
www.hlhr.gr/agnostos-str...
www.hlhr.gr/agnostos-str...
"Αν σε πιάσουν μπροστά στον Άγνωστο Στρατιώτη με δύο γραμμάρια κόκα στο χέρι θα έχεις μικρότερη ποινή από το αν σταθείς στο ίδιο σημείο με ένα πλακάτ στα χέρια.
Κι αυτό είναι ότι χρειάζεται να ξέρετε για το #ΚράτοςΔικαίου στην #Ελλάδα σήμερα."
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Κι αυτό είναι ότι χρειάζεται να ξέρετε για το #ΚράτοςΔικαίου στην #Ελλάδα σήμερα."
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November 16, 2025 at 6:34 PM
"Αν σε πιάσουν μπροστά στον Άγνωστο Στρατιώτη με δύο γραμμάρια κόκα στο χέρι θα έχεις μικρότερη ποινή από το αν σταθείς στο ίδιο σημείο με ένα πλακάτ στα χέρια.
Κι αυτό είναι ότι χρειάζεται να ξέρετε για το #ΚράτοςΔικαίου στην #Ελλάδα σήμερα."
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Κι αυτό είναι ότι χρειάζεται να ξέρετε για το #ΚράτοςΔικαίου στην #Ελλάδα σήμερα."
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#Greece's Ombudsman on the 2023 deadly #PylosShipwreck: "while criminal charges for several felonies have been brought against the 🇬🇷Coast Guard officers, the competent Ministry insists on abstaining from any disciplinary action, disregarding what the law dictates” #RefugeesGr
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November 11, 2025 at 9:55 AM
#Greece's Ombudsman on the 2023 deadly #PylosShipwreck: "while criminal charges for several felonies have been brought against the 🇬🇷Coast Guard officers, the competent Ministry insists on abstaining from any disciplinary action, disregarding what the law dictates” #RefugeesGr
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📢 #Greece: On October 31 in Exarchia, Athens, the police assaulted a #disabled man, without provocation, using ableist slurs & violence‼️They also attacked others, sitting in bars, in the "context" of a demo passing by. Impunity must end‼️
#Ableism
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#Ableism
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November 2, 2025 at 11:25 AM
📢 #Greece: On October 31 in Exarchia, Athens, the police assaulted a #disabled man, without provocation, using ableist slurs & violence‼️They also attacked others, sitting in bars, in the "context" of a demo passing by. Impunity must end‼️
#Ableism
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#Ableism
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#Greece's government, led by PM K. Mitsotakis, has been exercising its authoritarian tendencies for years and as all similar players, they are trying to say it's them or chaos. A poll is now asking this exactly. Mitsotakis or chaos. 30% still chose him but a 42% voted for chaos...
#RuleOfLaw
#RuleOfLaw
October 30, 2025 at 12:27 PM
#Greece's government, led by PM K. Mitsotakis, has been exercising its authoritarian tendencies for years and as all similar players, they are trying to say it's them or chaos. A poll is now asking this exactly. Mitsotakis or chaos. 30% still chose him but a 42% voted for chaos...
#RuleOfLaw
#RuleOfLaw
📢 #Greece: "Masked men from a 🇬🇷 Coast Guard vessel threatened the group at gunpoint, beat them, seized their phones & belongings, and towed their boat back toward 🇹🇷.
Videos showed (...) a man bleeding from his head, a woman from her hand."
#RefugeesGr #PushBacks
Videos showed (...) a man bleeding from his head, a woman from her hand."
#RefugeesGr #PushBacks
October 30, 2025 at 10:56 AM
📢 #Greece: "Masked men from a 🇬🇷 Coast Guard vessel threatened the group at gunpoint, beat them, seized their phones & belongings, and towed their boat back toward 🇹🇷.
Videos showed (...) a man bleeding from his head, a woman from her hand."
#RefugeesGr #PushBacks
Videos showed (...) a man bleeding from his head, a woman from her hand."
#RefugeesGr #PushBacks
#Greece: Declared incomes of all members of parliament (and their spouses), by party. The blue line that stands out concerns, completely coincidentally, the ruling party (which also, coincidentally, is dismantling the already weak Democracy in the country). Data from @vouliwatch.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 6:03 PM
#Greece: Declared incomes of all members of parliament (and their spouses), by party. The blue line that stands out concerns, completely coincidentally, the ruling party (which also, coincidentally, is dismantling the already weak Democracy in the country). Data from @vouliwatch.bsky.social
#Greece convicted again by the @echr.coe.int concerning the condition of detention (in 2012 & 2013...) of B.F., a #gay, #atheist, Iranian asylum seeker. Congrats to Electra Leda Koutra who represented him. #RefugeesGr
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October 15, 2025 at 11:23 AM
#Greece convicted again by the @echr.coe.int concerning the condition of detention (in 2012 & 2013...) of B.F., a #gay, #atheist, Iranian asylum seeker. Congrats to Electra Leda Koutra who represented him. #RefugeesGr
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shorturl.at/WGvqL
"The private school of A. Georgiades, 🇬🇷's #FarRight Minister of Health, where the greatness of Ancient #Greece is taught, published a photo.. to celebrate the liberation of Athens from the #Nazis.. Except it's a pic of the Nazis raising their flag on the Acropolis" via @brunotersago.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 8:51 PM
"The private school of A. Georgiades, 🇬🇷's #FarRight Minister of Health, where the greatness of Ancient #Greece is taught, published a photo.. to celebrate the liberation of Athens from the #Nazis.. Except it's a pic of the Nazis raising their flag on the Acropolis" via @brunotersago.bsky.social
📢 #Greece's Migration Minister exploits a mentally ill 19-year-old Iraqi refugee's minor altercation in the metro, to push for his deportation- despite no violence, no felony, & asylum laws barring such moves. His #FarRight show vs. a young man's life...
#RefugeesGr
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#RefugeesGr
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October 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
📢 #Greece's Migration Minister exploits a mentally ill 19-year-old Iraqi refugee's minor altercation in the metro, to push for his deportation- despite no violence, no felony, & asylum laws barring such moves. His #FarRight show vs. a young man's life...
#RefugeesGr
www.efsyn.gr/ellada/dikai...
#RefugeesGr
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10/9, #Greece: A #FarRight mob of 30–40 attacked 4 minor #RefugeesGr (13–17yo) near a Pontic festival. A governing party MP was present.They live in a shelter in Oreokastro. Injuries included a broken nose, bottle to the head & facial wounds. No media coverage, no police action for days. 1/
October 11, 2025 at 10:53 AM
10/9, #Greece: A #FarRight mob of 30–40 attacked 4 minor #RefugeesGr (13–17yo) near a Pontic festival. A governing party MP was present.They live in a shelter in Oreokastro. Injuries included a broken nose, bottle to the head & facial wounds. No media coverage, no police action for days. 1/
📢 #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...
They.. seek asylum.. we.. call on their immediate rescue & transfer to a camp.. or hospital "
#StopPushBacks www.facebook.com/share/1RVsZy...
October 7, 2025 at 10:11 AM
📢 #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...
They.. seek asylum.. we.. call on their immediate rescue & transfer to a camp.. or hospital "
#StopPushBacks www.facebook.com/share/1RVsZy...
📢 #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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#racism
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October 6, 2025 at 9:05 AM
📢 #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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#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
We call - on 4/10, in Klafthmonos Square at 17:00"
#transphobia
mobile.kinimatorama.net/event/181368
October 4, 2025 at 7:21 AM
📢 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
We call - on 4/10, in Klafthmonos Square at 17:00"
#transphobia
mobile.kinimatorama.net/event/181368
📢 #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”.
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September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
📢 #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”.
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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.
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September 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
📢 #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.
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📢 #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...)
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(He also calls this FBI, maybe he thinks 🇬🇷 is a Federal State...)
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September 23, 2025 at 9:56 AM
📢 #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...
(He also calls this FBI, maybe he thinks 🇬🇷 is a Federal State...)
www.ekathimerini.com/in-depth/soc...
" #Greece | ‼️A group of 37 people from Chad, Somalia & Sudan have arrived on #Lesvos island & are in urgent need of help.
THEY WOULD LIKE TO SEEK ASYLUM IN GREECE. WE CALL ON THEIR IMMEDIATE RESCUE & SAFE TRANSFER TO A CAMP (CCAC), OR HOSPITAL"
#RefugeesGr
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THEY WOULD LIKE TO SEEK ASYLUM IN GREECE. WE CALL ON THEIR IMMEDIATE RESCUE & SAFE TRANSFER TO A CAMP (CCAC), OR HOSPITAL"
#RefugeesGr
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September 20, 2025 at 7:14 AM
" #Greece | ‼️A group of 37 people from Chad, Somalia & Sudan have arrived on #Lesvos island & are in urgent need of help.
THEY WOULD LIKE TO SEEK ASYLUM IN GREECE. WE CALL ON THEIR IMMEDIATE RESCUE & SAFE TRANSFER TO A CAMP (CCAC), OR HOSPITAL"
#RefugeesGr
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THEY WOULD LIKE TO SEEK ASYLUM IN GREECE. WE CALL ON THEIR IMMEDIATE RESCUE & SAFE TRANSFER TO A CAMP (CCAC), OR HOSPITAL"
#RefugeesGr
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📢 Athens, #Greece: Amir Shehzad, a Pakistani migrant, told anti-racist group KEERFA, that when he quit his job in a restaurant on 15/9, his boss used racist slurs & beat him brutally, held him hostage, & refused to pay him‼️He has filed a complaint. #migrants #racism
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September 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM
📢 Athens, #Greece: Amir Shehzad, a Pakistani migrant, told anti-racist group KEERFA, that when he quit his job in a restaurant on 15/9, his boss used racist slurs & beat him brutally, held him hostage, & refused to pay him‼️He has filed a complaint. #migrants #racism
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📢 #Greece, "All we do is illegal": Leaked police testimonies, via @insidestory.gr, reveal, once again, that #RefugeesGr are pushed back to the Evros border, without arrest to avoid asylum claims. #Pushbacks are carried out by selected migrants under police orders.
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archive.is/xi7Kt
September 17, 2025 at 11:06 AM
📢 #Greece, "All we do is illegal": Leaked police testimonies, via @insidestory.gr, reveal, once again, that #RefugeesGr are pushed back to the Evros border, without arrest to avoid asylum claims. #Pushbacks are carried out by selected migrants under police orders.
archive.is/xi7Kt
archive.is/xi7Kt
The window of "Colourful Planet", the only #lgbtq+ bookstore in Athens & #Greece, was vandalized on Wednesday. As the owner said, he can't imagine the motivation being any other than #homophobia / #transphobia...
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September 12, 2025 at 7:06 AM
The window of "Colourful Planet", the only #lgbtq+ bookstore in Athens & #Greece, was vandalized on Wednesday. As the owner said, he can't imagine the motivation being any other than #homophobia / #transphobia...
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📢 #Greece: A Black man was denied a bus ticket despite empty seats, a few days ago. A police officer said to passengers asking why, “For your safety, foreigners travel at night.” The intercity bus director confirmed this racist policy, citing a '14 law to justify the #segregation of #migrants 1/
September 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
📢 #Greece: A Black man was denied a bus ticket despite empty seats, a few days ago. A police officer said to passengers asking why, “For your safety, foreigners travel at night.” The intercity bus director confirmed this racist policy, citing a '14 law to justify the #segregation of #migrants 1/
#Greece: Ali Faryad, a 46-year-old man from Pakistan, was deliberately misled by a company to board a tanker of 🇬🇷 interests, flying the 🇲🇭flag, & received threats to his life to continue working 10-hour shifts. Greece has been convicted by the #ECtHR for #humantrafficking of #migrants before...
September 1, 2025 at 2:18 PM
#Greece: Ali Faryad, a 46-year-old man from Pakistan, was deliberately misled by a company to board a tanker of 🇬🇷 interests, flying the 🇲🇭flag, & received threats to his life to continue working 10-hour shifts. Greece has been convicted by the #ECtHR for #humantrafficking of #migrants before...
📢 #Greece: Acc. to KEERFA, an antiracist org, Rafik Mohammed, a migrant, was attacked, on 30/8, with a crowbar, by a friend of his employer who used racist slurs, because he demanded to be paid.
The police arrested the victim instead of the racist without explanation‼️
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The police arrested the victim instead of the racist without explanation‼️
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August 31, 2025 at 8:39 PM
📢 #Greece: Acc. to KEERFA, an antiracist org, Rafik Mohammed, a migrant, was attacked, on 30/8, with a crowbar, by a friend of his employer who used racist slurs, because he demanded to be paid.
The police arrested the victim instead of the racist without explanation‼️
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The police arrested the victim instead of the racist without explanation‼️
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