Greece: Convictions following racist attack against Roma ‘first step to justice’

Headline Title: Greece: Convictions following racist attack against Roma ‘first step to justice’ 04 November 2014 Today’s conviction of three men following a brutal racist attack on a Roma woman and her nephew is a “first step towards justice”, said Amnesty International and Greek Helsinki Monitor - the NGO that provided free legal representation to the victims.A court in the town of Messolonghi today handed eight-month jail sentences – suspended for three years – to the three men over the attack on Paraskevi Kokoni and her nephew Kostas Theodoropoulos in October 2012. “These…

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