Nikos Romanos didn’t appear on the police radar out of nowhere. He is the 15-year-old who held his dead friend Alexandros Grigoropoulos in his arms when he was shot and killed by a police officer—a member of an auxiliary corps of the Greek Police—in Exarchia

A look back at four fatal cases of police violence in Greece—from 1965 to 1985—whose lack of accountability set the stage for the 2008 killing of 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos, an event that ignited one of the country’s fiercest waves of social unrest

According to reports from "xanthinews", the officer, acting without any authority, drove the victim to a remote field, where he brutally beat him before leaving him behind

The visit comes in the wake of the recent death of a 29-year-old man from Bangladesh who was reported to have been found hanged in a police station

Unanswered questions and strange coincidences surrounding the death of 37-year-old Muhammad Kamran Ashiq from Pakistan

The development comes in the wake of a recent suicide of a 29-year-old foreign national being held there and the escape of another prisoner

In the early morning Tuesday, a man was reported dead in the Athens Omonia Police Department. This comes just days after the news that a man named Mohammad Kamran Ashiq, originally from Pakistan, was found dead in the nearby Agios Panteleimonas police station.