THESSALONIKI – Students and clubs of the University of Thessaloniki (UoT) demonstrated at the United States consulate in Thessaloniki against the continuing detention of Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi, 16, who is awaiting trial in Israel for hitting two Israeli soldiers in her town, Nabi Saleh.
Tamimi was arrested on December 19 during a protest against US President Donald Trump’s recent decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Her continuing detention ahead of her trial has prompted reactions from the European Union and Amnesty International, among others, over the legality of detaining a minor.
Yiannis Vassiliadis, a member of the University Students’ Struggle Front (MAS), told the Athens-Macedonian News Agency, “Different schools have issued resolutions, and we are holding the protest to spread awareness about the 16-year-old Palestinian girl?s detention. Our intent was not to speak with the consulate, but to make people aware of the issue.”
He added that students will hold events at UoT as well “because students must learn about the unacceptable and criminal stance of Israel, express their solidarity to the Palestinian people, and condemn the involvement of the Greek government in war plans related to the US and Israel.”
ATHENS - With Greece and Britain in a row over the stolen Parthenon Marbles in the British Museum, the National Museum of Denmark said it will not return three fragments it has kept there for centuries, claiming them as part of Danish history.
FALMOUTH, MA – The police in Falmouth have identified the victim in an accident involving a car plunging into the ocean on February 20, NBC10 Boston reported.
Police have arrested a suspect in the shooting of three young men of Palestinian descent who were attending a Thanksgiving holiday gathering near the University of Vermont campus Saturday evening.
TEL AVIV, Israel — An Israeli hostage freed by Hamas said in an interview that she was initially fed well in captivity until conditions worsened and people became hungry.
BATON ROUGE, La. — Jean Knight, a New Orleans-born soul singer known for her 1971 hit "Mr.
NEW YORK — Celine Song's wistful romance "Past Lives" earned top honors at the Gotham Awards on Monday evening at an award-season kickoff where the night's biggest drama came in a political speech by Robert De Niro that the actor claimed had been edited without his permission.
MARRAKECH, Morocco — Thirty years ago, Palestinian actor Hiam Abbass left her home to pursue her dreams of being in the movies, joining generations of women in her family who were shaped by exile and "learned to leave everything and start anew.
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