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European Court Rules in Favor of Greek Photojournalist Strip-Searched by Police

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled against the Greek state over the degrading treatment of a photojournalist taken to Athens police headquarters for identification in 2013.
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Vindication for photojournalist Popi Melliou - Conviction of Greece by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR)

A significant development for photojournalist Popi Melliou is the decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), which unanimously ruled that Greece violated Article 3 regarding the prohibition of degrading treatment.

Photojournalist Popi Melliou was vindicated in the ECtHR, with the Court condemning Greece for the humiliating physical examination she submitted to GADA.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has vindicated photojournalist Popi Melliou and convicted Greece of illegally degrading treatment of her, due to the full physical examination she submitted to GADA after she was brought in 2013, during a fact-finding exercise. The ECtHR considered that the subjection of a citizen by the police forces to a physical examination with the removal of all clothing, without even, as it notes, having been arre…

Photojournalist Popi Melliou was acquitted by the European Court of Human Rights after her appeal for degrading treatment by the Greek Police in 2013

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Έθνος broke the news on Wednesday, September 23, 2026.
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