Athens University on Panepistimiou Street

The downtown Athens metro stations of Panepistimio, Monastiraki and Evangelismos will be closed at 4 p.m. on Friday on the orders of the Greek police.

The station closure was ordered to take place ahead of a 5 p.m. protest rally planned outside Athens University on Panepistimiou Street in support of jailed November 17 terrorist Dimitris Koufodinas.

Students, unions and political parties objecting to the new government's plan to abolish a law banning police from entering university grounds will be holding a protest rally in downtown Athens on Tuesday evening.

Several student organizations have called a rally on Monday outside the historic building of Athens University on Panepistimiou Street in order to protest plans by the Education Ministry to create a new university.

PAME, a vocal union associated with the Greek Communist Party (KKE), has organized a string of anti-austerity protests on Thursday evening that are expected to cause traffic problems in Athens, Thessaloniki and other cities.

Doctors of the World set up Christmas trees of milk at three points around Greece – Thessaloniki (Aristotelous Square), Athens (Athens Uni, Panepistimiou Street) and Crete (Chania).

Citizens helped build a tree of evaporated milk cans as part of the medical charity’s Christmas campaign.