Author: Fotis Frangopoulos
European Court Examines Greece Over Religious Image in Supreme Court
(Article in Greek below / Το άρθρο στα Ελληνικά ακολουθεί) We proudly announce a long-awaited, AAI-supported campaign for religious neutrality in public services and of a state in general. It comes alongside other AAI-supported campaigns for secular education in Greece. 🏛️ European Court Examines Greece Over Religious Image in Supreme Court The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is currently re...
Far-Right Greek Politician vandalized ‘Sacrilegious’ Artworks
Greek authorities arrested and then released Nikos Papadopoulos, a far-right MP with the Niki (:Victory) party, after he vandalized artworks in Athens’s National Gallery. Papadopoulos previously said in parliament that one of the Greek paintings was offensive to Orthodox Christianity, the predominant religion in Greece, asserting that it insulted the Virgin Mary and Christ. The Culture Ministry re...
The Greek government will once again waste taxpayers’ money on a medieval scam.
(Article in Greek below / Το άρθρο στα Ελληνικά ακολουθεί) The Greek government will once again waste taxpayers’ money on a medieval scam. According to recent publications, the Greek government will send a government plane to Jerusalem taking additional security measures. Is this planned in terms of some diplomatic effort to stop the genocide in Gaza? Maybe for humanitarian aid? No, this is ...
Atheists in Lebanon: Human Rights Violation Report
Our affiliate, Freethought Lebanon, recently published a study called: “Atheists in Lebanon: Human Rights Violations”. It is the first study of its kind on the various aspects of discrimination against atheists, agnostics, and freethinkers in Lebanon. Just like most Lebanese citizens, atheists and freethinkers of the country are struggling on several levels amid a chaotic scene of a cr...
Greek Court Recognises Atheism as Ground for Asylum
Ali (not his real name), was born to a Sunni Muslim family in Pakistan. He grew up a practicing Muslim but, in 2015, horrified and repulsed by the Taliban’s atrocities against innocents, he left Islam and identified as an atheist. He made his atheistic views known on social media and became an active member of the Atheist and Agnostic Alliance of Pakistan, an AAI affiliate that is fighting for th...
AAI-supported campaign for secular education in Greece
On February 15, 2021, the First Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) posted on its publicly accessible website the fact that it had notified the Government of Greece of the application brought by the Atheist Union of Greece (our affiliate) in February 2018. The announcement of the ECtHR includes a summary of the case, stating that the subject of the appeal is the way in which athe...
Another Victory for Our Greek Affiliate
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on Thursday upheld a complaint from the Atheist Union of Greece (AUG) and two families that the Greek State violates two fundamental human rights in its process for exempting children from religious education classes. It held that the process violates the fundamental right to education and the fundamental right to freedom of thought, conscience and religi...
Atheist Union of Greece’s complaint upheld
Greece’s independent Data Protection Authority (HDPA) ruled that keeping records of, and demanding declaration of the religious views of students violate the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of the EU, the Constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights. HDPA said it is also illegal to record their nationality. The decision, made public on Wednesday Sept 4, 2019, follows complain...