Hellenic League for Human Rights

The Hellenic League for Human Rights is the oldest Non Governmental Organization for human rights protection and promotion in Greece. The League was founded in 1953. Its board members are eminent personalities from the political and academic field.

The League, from its foundation, is the affiliated member of the International Federation for Human Rights (Fédération Internationale des Droits de l’Homme) and represents the Federation’s human rights network in the country. The dictatorship of 1967 banned the functioning of the Greek League for Human Rights and its members were persecuted untill the end of the regime. The president of the League, Professor Phaedon Vegleris, was the basic witness before the European Court of Human Rights at the notorious Greek case against the military regime, which actually resulted the expulsion of Greece from the Council of Europe.

The League recommenced its activities in 1974.