Iason Gousetis has been a research associate of the Hellenic League for Human Rights (HLHR) since 2021.

He studied Political Science at the University of Crete and pursued postgraduate studies in Modern Literature at the University of Edinburgh, as well as in Social Policy with a specialization in Social Discrimination, Migration, and Citizenship at the University of the Peloponnese.

He has authored a series of reports, studies, and documentation papers, including “Police, Brutality and Fundamental Rights: An overview of police arbitrariness in Greece” (1st edition Hellenic League for Human Rights, 2nd edition EfSyn, 2024) and the research project “Mapping the Landscape of SLAPPs in Greece” (Hellenic League for Human Rights, 2025), in collaboration with the investigative journalism team The Manifold.

He regularly collaborates as an expert on human rights issues with the European Commission and as a researcher with the Centre for European Constitutional Law – Themistokles and Dimitris Tsatsos Foundation, within assignments of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA). In the past, he worked for several years as Program Manager at the “Diotima” Centre.

His research interests focus on issues of police violence and arbitrariness, freedom of speech and of the press, as well as social discrimination and inequalities.