Courtroom

Unprecedentedly, the district court in Stara Zagora did not allow journalists into the courtroom during the hearing of Georgi Nikolaev's remand order. The judge demanded that the journalists be expelled from the corridor in front of the courtroom.

Trials that drag on for years raise serious questions about the administration of justice in Greece, while the fines imposed by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) against our country almost exclusively stem from the glacial pace of the Greek justice system.

Petros Filippidis will be in the docket today before the Mixed Jury Court of Athens.

The high-profile trial in which former premier Nikola Gruevski is accused of ordering a political opponent's building to be demolished out of revenge may have to start all over again next year as the court failed to wrap it up by Tuesday before one of the judges retires, possibly rendering the entire process so far null and void.

The long-running trial of MPs and members of the extreme-right Golden Dawn party on Thursday shifted to the next stage of examining hundreds of documents following the completion of testimonies delivered by more than 130 witnesses for the prosecution.

After 224 sessions since the launch of the trial in April 2015, the party's leadership has yet to appear in court.

A judge ordered journalist Ahmet Şık to be removed from the courtroom on Dec. 25, preventing him from making a “political statement” in his defense during the fifth hearing of the trial Cumhuriyet journalists held at Istanbul’s Çağlayan Courthouse. 

Judges hearing an ongoing case against the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party had to leave the courtroom on Tuesday after scuffles broke out between the plaintiffs' and defendants' supporters.

Judges hearing an ongoing case against the far-right Golden Dawn party, accused of constituting a criminal organization, had to leave the courtroom on Tuesday after tension broke out between the plaintiffs' and defendants' sides.

An Athens court of appeals on Tuesday started hearing an appeal by convicted urban terrorists Nikos Maziotis and Pola Roupa against their 50-year sentence.

The brother of Dilek Do?an, a young woman who was killed during an anti-terror raid on her house last year, was detained during the hearing into the case on April 20, while the judge ruled to hold future hearings behind closed doors.