In early 2025 photojournalist Marios Lolos was covering a demonstration in Athens about the Tempi rail tragedy when a police officer threw a stun grenade in his direction. It hit the left side of his head, exploding next to him. The impact resulted in him suffering permanent hearing loss and a head injury. “Had it exploded in front of my head and not a little bit later, we wouldn’t be speaking at the moment,” Lolos tells me, […]

In early 2025 photojournalist Marios Lolos was covering a demonstration in Athens about the Tempi rail tragedy when a police officer threw a stun grenade in his direction. It hit…

Stun grenades have no place in the policing of protests. The right to freedom of peaceful assembly in Greece is being blatantly violated both in law and in practice.