Sylva Akrita

Sylva-Kaiti Akrita (17 July 1928 – 23 December 2025) was a Greek politician, political activist and opponent of the Greek junta, the military dictatorship which ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974.

In 1967, Akrita became one of the first women to be arrested and sentenced to prison for her opposition to the military junta. Following the 1974 collapse of the Greek military dictatorship, Akrita was a founding member of the PASOK political party.

Syla Akrita was the mother of , a journalist who was first elected to the Hellenic Parliament from the Syriza party in 2023.