Volunteer members of the party dressed in black gave milk, pasta, olive oil and patatoes to Hundreds who stood in line at Athens’ main Syntagma Square, showing their ID cards to validate their citizenship in order to receive assistance as the country’s poverty and unemployment rates continue to soar.

Golden Dawn spokesman Ilias Kasidiaris said the food came from Greek firms and Greek producers only. The party ignored a local authority ban on allowing the food handout in the square.

In July, the far-right Golden Dawn party was accused of organizing a racist blood drive. The party was trying to get Greeks to donate blood exclusively to other Greek-born citizens.

Golden Down, which many say is neo-Nazi, is known for constant assaults on immigrants.

In mid-July, the Greek Human Rights Watch rang an alarm, saying migrants were being attacked all over the country. Although there was no direct evidence of Golden Dawn’s connection to those attacks, Human Rights Watch said some facts suggest that the extremist party was involved in the attacks.

Anti-immigrant sentiment in Greece is largely fueled by the economic crisis the country faces. Greece has always been a gateway for immigrants coming from Asia and Africa to Europe in large numbers.

Public support for the party has dramatically increased, twenty-fold, since elections in 2009, according to AP. This May, Golden Dawn gained 7 per cent of the vote at the parliamentary elections, managing to pass the threshold for the first time.

Wojdan Ali Seraj Abdulrahim Shaherkani is one of only two Saudi women to travel to London as Saudi Arabia‘s National Olympic Committee’s decision to send two women athletes to the London Olympic Games is a breakthrough for Saudi women’s sports.

But she had said she would only compete if she was allowed to wear the hijab, and judo officials refused, saying it would be dangerous and that according to IJF’s regulations for the Olympic Games state that no headgear can be worn.

This year is the first time every nation competing in the Olympics is sending women as well as men. Saudi Arabia was the last country to announce that it would send female athletes.

Saudi Arabia compained to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) after the head of the International Judo Federation (IJF) president Marius Vizer confirmed Wodjan Ali Seraj Abdulrahim Shaherkani,  would not be allowed to wear a hijab on Thursday.

Wojdan Shaherkani, is due to fight in the heavyweight judo competition on Friday.

The participation of two Saudi female athletes in the London Olympics is an important first step but does not go far enough in addressing entrenched problems of gender discrimination in the kingdom, Human Rights Watch said.

“The world should cheer Wojdan Shahrkhani and Sarah Attar as they make history in London, but we must also remember millions of women and girls inside Saudi Arabia who can only watch from the sidelines,” Minky Worden, director of global initiatives at Human Rights Watch. “The IOC can move the ball down the field for women’s sports by making it clear for future Olympics that if you don’t play by the rules, you should not play at all.”

In the summer of 1996, stories began to filter out of Libya about a mass killing in Tripoli’s Abu Salim prison. The details remained scarce, and the government initially denied that an incident had taken place. Libyan groups outside the country said up to 1,200 prisoners had died.

The government should establish a justice system that can and will prosecute and fairly try individuals responsible for the egregious crime, in which more than 1,200 prisoners were shot and killed, Human Rights Watch said.  The bodies of the victims have yet to be found.

“Sixteen years after the mass killing in Abu Salim prison, Libyans can finally hope for justice,” said Fred Abrahams, special advisor at Human Rights Watch. “This means finding the bodies and identifying and punishing the people responsible for the crime.

A number of guards and senior Gaddafi-era officials have been detained and are under investigation by the military prosecutor for the 1996 prison massacre.They should be given full due process rights guaranteed in Libya law and granted fair trials, Human Rights Watch said.

Human Rights Watch has interviewed eight prisoners who were in Abu Salim prison during that time.  According to these witnesses, on the evening of June 28 the prisoners protested over harsh prison conditions and captured two guards, one of whom died.

Guards opened fire, killing six prisoners and wounding about 20. 

The government sent senior officials to negotiate, including Muammar Gaddafi’s brother-in-law and intelligence chief, Abdullah Sanussi. Five prisoners met Sanussi to present their demands, including a stop to torture, trials for prisoners, and improved food, health care, and family visits.

Sanussi said he would meet the prisoners’ demands, except for trials, if the prisoners released the other captured guard, one of the prisoner negotiators told Human Rights Watch. The prisoners agreed and about 120 sick prisoners were taken away, allegedly for medical care. Instead, many of them were shot and killed.

 The next morning, hundreds of prisoners from different cell blocks were brought into a courtyard in the civilian side of the prison. Between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m., gunmen on the roofs opened fire with automatic weapons for at least one hour.In total over the two days, more than 1,200 prisoners lost their lives.

AbdallahSanussi is currently detained in Mauritania and Libya is trying to gain custody.He is also wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity during the 2011 conflict and by France for his alleged involvement in the destruction of an Air France passenger plane in 1989.

The bodies of the killed prisoners were apparently buried inside the prison, but were removed a few years later, former prisoners said. The location of the bodies remains unknown.

The Gaddafi government kept the mass killing a secret until 2001, when it began to inform some families of the victims.

The Abu Salim massacre provided a spark for the February 2011 uprising that overthrew Gaddafi.The arrest of a leader of the association of victims’ families on February 15 in Benghazi led to protests that quickly spread when the government responded with force.