2021 Greek protests

2021 Greek protests
2021 Greek protests
Date	4 February 2021 – March 2021
Location	Greece
Caused by	Kerameus-Chrisochoidis Law allowing police on university campuses; Hunger strike of Dimitris Koufontinas; Authoritarianism; Police brutality; Government mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic;
Goals	Repeal of campus security law; Transfer of Dimitris Koufontinas to Korydallos Prison;
Methods	Protests; Demonstrations; Vandalism;
Resulted in	Protests contained Kerameus-Chrisochoidis Law passed and partially implemented; Koufontinas' hunger strike ended;
Parties
Students; Academic personnel Opposition: SYRIZA; Communist Party of Greece; MeRA25; Anarchists	Government: Hellenic Police; New Democracy;
Lead figures
	No centralized leadership Kyriakos Mitsotakis; Michalis Chrisochoidis; Niki Kerameus; Lt.Gen. Michail Karamalakis

The 2021 Greek protests broke out in response to a proposed government bill that would allow police presence on university campuses for the first time in decades, for which opposition groups accused the government of taking advantage of the COVID-19 lockdown to impose increasingly authoritarian measures. Protests intensified in response to the hunger strike of the prisoner Dimitris Koufontinas, a former member of terrorist organization 17N, who had started the strike in December, demanding his transfer to a different prison after he had been forcibly relocated to a maximum-security facility in central Greece, as well as issues relating to police brutality and specifically the DELTA Force motorcycle police.

The prime minister condemned the opposition parties as having "exploited lockdown fatigue", which he blamed for the frequent rallies.