An incredible Greek case has reached the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), which has sentenced Greece to a fine of 312,500 euros to the owner of a hotel. The reason; The hotel in question was under occupation by squatters, under the SYRIZA government, and the state did not protect the right to property.

Closed detention facilities are not prohibited by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), as long as the European Convention on Human Rights’s Article 5 is observed, Court President Linos-Alexandre Sicilianos told a Greek Parliament committee on Tuesday.

The ruling of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) against Greece on the case of forced labour in the strawberry farms of Manolada in 2012 is a “milestone” for similar conditions of forced labour which unfortunately continue to exist, the lawyers of the organizations which represented the Bangladeshi workers in the court said on Thursday at a joint press conference in Athens.