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Post by Eric Holder on May 15, 2010 11:42:51 GMT -8
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Post by clone on Nov 6, 2011 9:00:41 GMT -8
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Post by moabiter on Nov 1, 2012 15:35:15 GMT -8
Greek peril: Another journalist arrested amidst free speech protests Published: 01 November, 2012, 15:12 rt.com/news/greece-government-censorship-media-732/Another Greek journalist was arrested after threatening to expose damaging information about the country’s economy. This move comes in amid public protests against government media censorship following two high-profile cases. Facing public discontent and mass protests, Greece’s government has been curtailing free speech and implementing media censorship, as parliament tries to pass new harsh austerity measures in order to qualify for new US$40 billion of EU bailout money. Last night Spiros Karatzaferis, a Greek television journalist, was arrested after threatening to expose damaging allegations about the country’s economy. He received this information from the hacker group Anonymous and claimed prove that the Greek deficit, which forced the embattled country to seek bailouts, was fraudulent. Karatzaferis told the Greek Reporter that he was arrested not for possessing the information, but on an unrelated case dealing with libel, after he accused judges of trying to form a para-state outside the government. This came a few days after another Greek investigative journalist, Kostas Vaxevanis, was arrested and now faces up to a year in prison with a $38,000 fine for allegedly breaching data privacy laws. His crime was in publishing the so-called Lagarde list, containing the names of 2,059 Greek account holders of HSBC’s Swiss bank. He is to appear in court on Thursday. The list was initially stolen by a bank employee in 2007 and later passed on to then-Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou in 2010. Show-stopper: Greek journalists go on strike, alleging state censorship (31 October, 2012, 00:24) ERT workers staged a walkout during scheduled programming on Tuesday morning and said they will organize 24-hour rolling strikes until Katsimi and Arvanitis are reinstated. rt.com/news/greece-media-censorship-strike-593/
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Post by Sir Jonathan on Jun 3, 2013 15:55:28 GMT -8
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