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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
ATHENS – With Greece’s capital city under repeated attack from anarchists demanding a furlough from jail – the seventh – for November 17 terrorist assassin Dimitris Koufodinas, the country’s highest court is due to decide whether to overturn a prosecutor’s decision preventing another vacation for him.
The decision could come as soon as May 23 or May 24, said media reports, as violence in support of him was being stepped up by the notorious anarchist group Rouvikonas, including a paint bomb attack on Parliament.
Koufodinas, 61, has been hospitalized after beginning a hunger strike May 2 to protest the prosecutor overruling a recommendation from a council at the low-security work farm to which he was transferred from a high-security prison, the board saying he should get out.
He is serving 11 life sentences for his role in the terror group’s murders of 23 people, including five Americans attached to the US Embassy over the years, with Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt – whose home was splashed with paint by Rouvikonas – denouncing his supporters and saying that Koufodinas “is a murderer, not Robin Hood.”
The penal section of the Supreme Court discussed an appeal filed by the court’s top prosecutor Xeni Dimtiriou who recommended the furlough for Koufodinas, although he doesn’t appear to be eligible under furlough laws which require prisoners to be repentant The judges convened in a closed-door session to examine the case although Dimitriou, who was not present, said previously that even criminals serving multiple life sentences can be granted a furlough, provided they have served a specific part of their term.
There’s been no reports anyone other than Koufodinas though has been given any. Dimitriou wanted to overturn the rejection of his furlough after he was hospitalized during his hunger strike, with Rouvikonas warning violence if anything happens to him, as he said he would continue not eating “until the end.”
It was a sharp turnaround for Dimitriou who last year had ordered a disciplinary investigation against two prosecutors who had agreed to grant Koufodinas a new leave but she wouldn’t explain her change of heart.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) — It was in the den that Karen Goodwin most strongly felt her son’s presence: On the coffee table were his ashes, inside a clock with its hands forever frozen at 12:35 a.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A bus carrying worshippers on a long-distance trip from Botswana to an Easter weekend church gathering in South Africa plunged off a bridge on a mountain pass Thursday and burst into flames as it hit the rocky ground below, killing at least 45 people, authorities said.