WPF staunchly condemns the violent attack against Rena Kouvelioti. The journalist was investigating a story of great public concern, illegal oxygen welding in an area of the country dangerously prone to deadly fires when she was physically assaulted by an operator for the welding company.

The Coalition For Women In Journalism is highly concerned with the Greek Ministry of Immigration and Asylum denying Lydia Emmanouilidou access to a refugee camp in Samos.

Journalist Stavroula Poulimeni is due before court to face SLAPP (strategic lawsuit against public participation) brought against her.

A Greek court fined journalist Elena Akrita 8000€ for defamation because of her criticism of actor Marko Seferlis’s joke in his TV show.

Former investigative journalist and television host, Ioanna Papadakou, is due before the Greek Supreme Court.

Dutch journalist Ingeborg Beugel has been forced to leave the country due to increasing threats to her safety.

Dutch journalist Ingeborg Beugel faced a vicious online harassment campaign after a heated exchange between herself and the Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was televised. Ingeborg had pointedly questioned Mitsotakis regarding the Greek denial of their illegal treatment of refugees, in response to which the Prime Minister responded visibly angrily. Upon the exchange becoming public Ingeborg was accused of being an anti-state propagandist, and her professional credibility was put to task by state supporters online.

Eleftheria Spyraki, a correspondent associated with OPEN TV, was attacked and physically assaulted by miscreants in Thrakomakedones. The incident was reported around 2 a.m. late Saturday night as the crew was reporting a fire from the frontlines. Eleftheria narrated the attack live on an audio call, her voice cracking with fear as she described the details of what was happening.

On 19 October 2020, a German media crew making a documentary about climate-induced migration on the Greek island of Samos were detained for seven hours, strip searched and held in jail without charges over their use of a filming drone.

Two Kurdish journalists from Turkey, Çağdaş Kaplan and Berçem Mordeniz, captured the battery and detention of one person by police in Syntagma Square in Athens, the capital city of Greece. Journalists themselves have also been battered and taken into custody while their work was impeded.

Unknown perpetrators set the car of a CNN Greece journalist Mina Karamitrou on fire late Tuesday night.