Nikolaos Michaloliakos

Nikos Michaloliakos, the former leader of the now-defunct Golden Dawn, was arrested at his home in the northern Athens suburb of Pefki, hours after a court reversed a prior decision granting him release under restrictive conditions on Monday.

The 67-year-old is expected to return to Domokos Prison, just a month after his temporary release.

The judicial council of the Lamia Court of Appeals in central Greece has reversed the temporary release of Nikos Michaloliakos, former leader of the now-defunct Golden Dawn. Michaloliakos was sentenced to 13 years and 6 months in prison in 2020 after being convicted of leading a criminal organization.

An appeals court prosecutor has appealed a decision of a Lamia court earlier this month to grant conditional release to Nikos Michaloliakos, who in 2020 was sentenced to 13 years and 6 months' imprisonment after being convicted of leading the Golden Dawn criminal organization.

Ilias Kasidiaris, the imprisoned former deputy leader of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn group, submitted a request to the judicial authorities for his early release from jail.

Nikos Michaloliakos, the formerly powerful leader of the now defunct neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, has been conditionally released from prison after a decision by the judicial council of Lamia in central Greece.

The Lamia Court of Appeals Prosecutor intends to appeal the decision of the Lamia Misdemeanor Court, which granted conditional release to Nikos Michaloliakos, convicted of leading the criminal organization of Golden Dawn, sentenced to 13 years and 6 months.

Nikos Michaloliakos, the former leader of the now-defunct neo-Nazi group Golden Dawn who was serving a multi-year prison sentence for running a criminal organization will be released from jail, a court ruled on Thursday.

Democracy is under threat across the world. Fewer people today live in democracies than did two decades ago. Opposition to democracy, and to capitalism, has grown as populists launch "culture wars" - cruelly exploiting migrants and minorities - and appeal to the socially and economically excluded. This is a cocktail variously stirred by Trump, Brexit, Modi, Le Pen, Orban and Meloni.

Three former leading figures in the now-defunct neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party were cleared of inciting racist violence in a case relating to derogatory comments allegedly made against Muslim lawmakers in Parliament in March 2018.

By Nikos Hasapopoulos

Christos Pappas of the now defunct far-right Golden Dawn party was no run of the mill cadre of former party leader Nikos Michaloliakos.

He was the self-styled "theoretician" of the group. Even "his own" people referred to him as [top Nazi Hermann] Goering and his parliamentary presence was marked by his outrageous audacity.