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Helena Smith in Athens

Appeal trial for jailed Golden Dawn leaders to start amid anti-fascist protests

Ilias Kasidiaris
Ilias Kasidiaris, a former MP for the extreme-right Golden Dawn party, who was handed a sentence of 13 years imprisonment, at an appeal court in Athens in October 2020. Photograph: Pantelis Saitas/EPA

The imprisoned protagonists of Greece’s once powerful neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party will seek to overturn prolonged prison terms in an appeals court trial due to open amid anti-fascist protests in Athens this week.

Eighteen months after members were convicted of operating a criminal organisation that masqueraded as a political party, appellate judges will start hearing the case afresh on Wednesday.

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