{"id":6801,"date":"2026-05-21T20:23:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T17:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=6801"},"modified":"2026-05-21T20:23:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T17:23:00","slug":"the-leader-of-17-november-alexandros-yiotopoulos-is-released-from-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=6801","title":{"rendered":"The leader of &#8220;17 November&#8221; Alexandros Yiotopoulos is released from prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-path-to-node=\"1\">The <b>convicted<\/b> leader of the <b>terrorist organization &#8220;17 November&#8221;<\/b> is <b>released<\/b> <b>after 24 years<\/b> of incarceration in <b>Korydallos<\/b> prison.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">The <b>release <\/b>of <b>Alexandros Yiotopoulos<\/b> <b>was decided<\/b> by the Council of Appeals, accepting the relevant request filed by the <b>convicted for the &#8220;17 November<\/b>&#8221; case. <b>Yiotopoulos<\/b>, who was serving a multi-year life sentence, is <b>expected to pass through the prison gates in the next few hours<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">The court decision comes <b>24 years after his arrest in the summer of 2002 in Lipsi<\/b>, which marked the <b>countdown to the dismantling of the organization<\/b>. <\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">In 2003, the Court of First Instance had given him the <b>highest sentence<\/b>, finding him guilty as the <b>intellectual perpetrator<\/b> and <b>director of the terrorist group&#8217;s<\/b> actions<\/b>, a sentence that was upheld in the second instance.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\">For <b>Alexander Yiotopoulos<\/b>&#8216;s release from prison, the judicial council imposed <b>restrictive conditions<\/b> to ensure his presence before the authorities. Specifically, the released man was imposed:<\/p>\n<ul data-path-to-node=\"5\">\n<li>The ban on leaving the country.<\/li>\n<li>The obligation to appear once a month at the police station of his place of residence.<\/li>\n<li>The declaration and maintenance of permanent residence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The convicted leader of the terrorist organisation &#8220;17 November&#8221; is released after 24 years in Korydallos prison.<br \/>\nOn &#8230;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-greece"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}