tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24841410087825263102024-03-18T05:02:14.177+02:00radiobubble - internationalCitizen journalism - news from GreecePexlihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15580365841675314016noreply@blogger.comBlogger446125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2484141008782526310.post-10371067974682429152014-05-09T20:02:00.000+03:002014-05-09T20:10:00.168+03:00Cleaners escalate protest actions & call for public support<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">English translation of the protesting cleaners' <a href="https://twitter.com/dromografos/status/463940322180214784/photo/1" target="_blank"><i>announcement</i></a> by <a href="https://twitter.com/Inflammatory_" target="_blank"><i>@inflammatory_ </i></a></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cleaners staying overnight in a tent outside the Finance Ministry protesting layoffs & austerity measures <br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>REDUNDANT CLEANERS OF THE FINANCE MINISTRY</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are <b>595 female cleaners</b> that have been working for many years at the Finance Ministry. Since September 18, 2013 we've been under the <i>labour reserve scheme</i><i style="font-weight: bold;">* </i>and<i style="font-weight: bold;"> </i>on May 18, 2014 we are losing our jobs, <b>WE ARE GETTING SACKED.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>We are all WOMEN</b>, the gender discrimination is evident, most of us are over 50 years old and very close to retirement but <b>will NEVER MANAGE TO GET a pension</b>. Many of us are single parents and we've been providing this income for our family. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The bailout policies compromise our right to work and live. The Greek unemployment overall at the moment is 27% and 62.8% specifically for women.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WE DON'T HAVE ANY HOPE TO FIND A JOB </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(WE HAVE) NO RIGHT FOR HEALTH CARE</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Until 2005 we've been engaged under a "contract for service". Following a EU legislation and a fine for Greece, our contracts switched to "open-ended". The government is dismissing us to reduce the deficit, as it says. The truth is that we cost to the Greek state much less than the private cleaning services they are using now instead. For the Greek government and the Troika we are numbers, not humans.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For 8 months -since September 18- we 've been protesting every day outside the Finance Ministry. It has been an immense struggle that faced<b> violence & clampdown</b> by the Greek government. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They thought we would make ourselves easy target and weak link especially because we are women at the bottom of the working class. However we fight on a daily basis along with thousands of other laid off people, against the measures of the Greek government and the Troika that destroy our lives and lead us to utter misery.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>We continue our struggle:</b></span><br />
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<li><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We stage a sit-in protest from today (May 7, 2014) outside the Finance Ministry</b></li>
<li><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We won't stop until we get justice</b></li>
<li><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We demand the right to work, social security & pension</b></li>
<li><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We fight with other workers altogether to abolish these policies that bring us to poverty </b></li>
<li><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We demand the obvious: a life of dignity through our humble job</b></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>We are calling for solidarity with our sit-in protest</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">* <i>under the labour reserve scheme they get 75% of their salary for 8 months and then they get sacked for good</i></span><br />
<br />Inflammatoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16291717332021909681noreply@blogger.com30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2484141008782526310.post-7777231505258540252014-04-02T23:48:00.002+03:002014-04-05T22:58:49.477+03:00Golden Dawn's controversial video on prime minister's aide Baltakos, raises questions<div class="MsoNormal">
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& prime minister’s close aide<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Takis </span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Baltakos</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> was </span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">secretly
filmed describing to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Golden Dawn</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">
spokesman Ilias Kasidiaris the politics behind the clampdown on the
party following the murder of Pavlos Fyssas. </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The transcripts release, forced Baltakos to resign and triggered drama in the corridors of the parliament as his son stormed inside the Golden Dawners’ office and </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZM4G5Y22f0#t=14" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><b><i>attacked</i></b></a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> 3 lawmakers who allegedly failed to respond swiftly because -based on looks- they considered he was "one of them".</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_9C0CGtQfU" target="_blank"><i><b>video</b></i></a> subtitled by <a href="https://twitter.com/KallergisK" target="_blank">@kalergisK</a> shows a friendly chat between
the two men and Baltakos revealing that the allegations lacked sufficient
evidence whilst the crackdown was an effort to tackle the switch of New Democracy voters
to Golden Dawn. Frankly this is not news, but an old hot topic of analysis across alternative media sources back in September. However when it's allegedly admitted by a government official who is secretly recorded by a lawmaker, then the story enters a new chapter and raises a few questions: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The video material appears to be legit but it's edited and</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <a href="https://twitter.com/Skar_/status/451326706062995457" target="_blank"><b><i>3 bits</i></b></a> appear to be deleted (1:42' - 2:01' -2:28'). </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Was there any juicy info missed? If yes how would that affect the story?</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">If the video was recorded months ago why did Golden Dawn choose now to release it? </span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Since Golden Dawn engages with such practices, there is room for assumptions about other video or audio materials available. In case thery actually are, how could these shape further developments ahead of elections and party members' trial? Should other public figures start worrying? Would this mark the beginning of a bluffing game or blackmailing and secret negotiations?</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">What lies ahead for a governemnt and above all for the people it is supposed to serve amid allegations of political interference at justice? </span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The boundary between the far-right and the center right has become porous. For example the views and background of New Democracy's Kranidiotis, Voridis, Georgiadis or Plevris -to name a few- give strong evidence although they have made numerous efforts to play it down. Samaras also <a href="http://www.tovima.gr/politics/article/?aid=430076" target="_blank"><i><b>expelled</b></i></a> Sotiris Hatzigakis for raising the issue back in 2011. Baltakos would bear even greater responsibility as the government's general secretary. Is this video a hint of collusion between people of New Democracy and Golden Dawn?</span></li>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Video transcript in English can be found <b><a href="http://www.enetenglish.gr/?i=news.en.politics&id=1839" target="_blank">here</a></b> </i></span></div>
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Inflammatoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16291717332021909681noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2484141008782526310.post-72156875793459466902013-07-29T13:30:00.000+03:002013-07-29T13:30:26.628+03:00Informativo semanal desde Grecia #42 - 27 Julio 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>En las noticias de #rbnews international de esta semana:</b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>Los servicios públicos de salud se degradan aún más en Grecia con el cierre de hospitales y despidos de personal </li>
<li>El gobierno sigue sin reaccionar por la fuga de datos personales de la Secretaría General de Sistemas de Información del ministerio de finanzas</li>
<li>Sigue el apagón de la ERT </li>
<li>Prohibida por el alcalde de Atenas, el uso de una plaza en Atenas por la Aurora Dorada para distribuir alimentos sólo a griegos</li>
<li>Sigue la recaudación de dinero para la fianza para la liberación de Kostas Sakkás</li>
<li>Continúan en julio varias protestas en Grecia de diversos sectores de trabajo contra las medidas del gobierno</li>
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<a name='more'></a><br /><b>1. Recortes en la sanidad pública</b><div>
<b><br /></b>El pasado miércoles 24 de julio, el personal médico del país se declaró en huelga y se manifestó en Atenas y Tesalónica, para protestar por los recortes previstos en el sector de la salud. Los recortes, que fueron anunciados por el ministro de Salud Ádonis Georgiadis cuando asumió el cargo, implican el cierre o la fusión de varios hospitales de todo el país con el fin de reducir el coste de la salud pública en el presupuesto del Estado. Solamente en la región de Atenas, el cierre o la fusión prevista de <a href="http://www.alfavita.gr/arthron/%CF%83%CE%BF%CF%83-%CE%B3%CE%B9%CE%B1-%CF%84%CE%BF%CE%BD-%CF%80%CE%BB%CE%B7%CE%B8%CF%85%CF%83%CE%BC%CF%8C-%CF%80%CE%BF%CE%B9%CE%B1-%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE%BD%CE%B1%CE%B9-%CF%84%CE%B1-6-%CE%BD%CE%BF%CF%83%CE%BF%CE%BA%CE%BF%CE%BC%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE%B1-%CF%80%CE%BF%CF%85-%CE%BA%CE%BB%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE%BD%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%BD-%CE%BC%CE%AD%CF%83%CE%B1-%CF%83%CF%84%CE%BF%CE%BD-%CE%B1%CF%8D%CE%B3%CE%BF%CF%85%CF%83%CF%84%CE%BF">6 hospitales</a> provocará que 1.300 personas del sector sanitario pierdan su empleo o se trasladen a nuevas plazas, si hay alguna disponible.<br /><br />Por otra parte, una de las primeras medidas de Ádonis Georgiadis al asumir el cargo, fue la de reestablecer una directiva que había sido establecida por el ex ministro de Salud Andreas Loverdos pero que más tarde fue revocada por la ex viceministra Fotini Skopuli. La Directiva tiene como fin la supresión de un porcentaje de la pensión a largo plazo en pacientes hospitalizados, particularmente <a href="http://www.psyspirosi.gr/2009-03-13-13-12-12/724-2013-07-20-17-08-23.html">pacientes con enfermedades mentales</a>, para contribuir a los gastos de su hospitalización, independientemente del impacto que esta medida tenga sobre los cónyuges u otros familiares al cargo. Esta directiva, principalmente, elimina el carácter público de los hospitales y no tiene en cuenta el hecho de que los pacientes hospitalizados a largo plazo hayan pagado y sigan pagando las cotizaciones al seguro nacional de salud.<br /><br />Por último, el diario <a href="http://www.avgi.gr/article/683464/ekopsan-ti-therapeia-apo-duo-astheneis-me-ipatitida-c-">Avgí</a>, informó esta semana que el Comité Nacional del Fondo del Seguro Social (conocido como EOPYY por sus siglas griegas) suspendió la cobertura de los medicamentos importados y caros de al menos 2 pacientes con hepatitis C crónica. El diario señala que la decisión va en contra de las directrices nacionales e internacionales para la prevención y tratamiento de la hepatitis C y que el comité, con el fin de reducir los costes, ha estado negando los medicamentos adecuados, no sólo a pacientes que en realidad podrían recuperarse de la enfermedad, sino también a personas para quienes la suspensión del tratamiento equivale a una sentencia de muerte.<br /><div class="" id="magicdomid19" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; padding-right: 1px;">
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<b>2. Fuga de datos personales de 6 millones de griegos del Ministerio de Finanzas</b><br /></div>
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La página web de noticias <a href="http://tvxs.gr/news/ellada/diarroi-prosopikon-dedomenon-toylaxiston-6-ek-politon-apopeira-sygkalypsis">TVXS</a> reveló esta semana que una fuga de datos personales sobre los impuestos de las personas aún no se ha investigado adecuadamente, a pesar de que la Autoridad de Protección de Datos de Carácter Personal haya solicitado información al respecto a la Secretaría General de Sistemas de Información del Ministerio de Finanzas desde diciembre de 2012. Igualmente el Servicio de la Fiscalía de Delitos Electrónicos, declaró en una conferencia de prensa a principios de febrero 2013, que había identificado las empresas privadas que tenían acceso a esos datos sensibles de ciudadanos. También, TVXS menciona que los expertos consultados sobre el asunto, estiman que la fuga se refiere a los archivos de aproximadamente 6 millones de personas, es decir, toda la fuerza laboral del país. Según TVXS, no sólo el Ministerio ha retrasado una investigación interna sobre el caso, sino que tampoco ha pasado el caso a la justicia.<br /><br /><b>3. El cierre de la ERT</b> <br /><br />ERT la cadena pública de Grecia, que fue cerrada abruptamente por decreto gubernamental el 11 de junio, sigue emitiendo vía satélite con la ayuda de la Unión Europea de Radiodifusión. Un El “juego” entre los técnicos de la ERT y el gobierno continúa con la reapertura, por parte de los segundos, de un poderoso transmisor en la frecuencia 91.6F de FM en Atenas para cubrir superponerse a la señal de radio de ERT. Además, el gobierno también está adoptando una serie de medidas para reforzar su control sobre los medios de comunicación mediante la ampliación, por enésima vez, del mandato de los miembros del Consejo Nacional de Radio y Televisión, cuyo presidente anunció que consideraba legales las emisiones lanzadas por el gobierno en frecuencias ERT bajo el nombre de "<a href="http://static.diavgeia.gov.gr/doc/%CE%92%CE%9B4%CE%A3%CE%97-%CE%9A0%CE%95">Televisión Pública Griega</a>", a pesar del hecho de que esta "televisión pública" no tiene existencia legal, mientras que, al mismo tiempo, estaba considerando aplicar sanciones contra el canal de Partido Comunista, <a href="http://periodista.gr/medias/item/4350-%CE%BB%CE%AC%CE%B4%CE%B9-%CE%B7-%CE%BA%CF%85%CE%B2%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%BD%CE%B7%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%AE-tv-%CF%83%CF%84%CE%BF-%CF%83%CE%BA%CE%B1%CE%BC%CE%BD%CE%AF-%CE%BF-902">902</a> por retransmitir durante unas pocas horas en junio el programa emitido por el personal de ERT en los primeros días después del apagón.<br /><br />Mientras tanto, después de la votación en el Parlamento del proyecto de ley para el establecimiento de un nuevo organismo público de radiodifusión con el nombre <a href="http://www.satleo.gr/cdn/component/content/article/1-satleo/5870-2013-07-23-05-35-18">NERIT</a>, el gobierno <a href="http://newpost.gr/post/255236/arxizei-h-diadikasia-proslhpsewn-sth-dhmosia-thleorash">anunció</a> 589 plazas para iniciar las contrataciones, y agregó que otros 1.500 puestos de trabajo serían anunciados una vez que el personal dejase los edificios de la ERT que ocupan en todo el país. <a href="https://twitter.com/dialogosmedia/status/358585801761763328">@dialogosmedia</a> señaló una serie de aberraciones relacionadas con el anuncio, como por ejemplo el hecho de que sólo 38 plazas están programadas para Tesalónica, la segunda mayor ciudad de Grecia, que es el sitio de la tercera cadena de televisión pública. De éstas, 4 son para presentadores de televisión, pero ningún artista de maquillaje será contratado por ellos. Del mismo modo, sólo 1 empleado está programado para la isla más grande de Grecia, Creta, mientras que ninguno se contratará en Evros, las islas Jónicas y las Cícladas.<br /><br /><b>4. Aurora Dorada</b><br /><br />Con el fin de <a href="http://www.enet.gr/?i=news.el.article&id=376343">prohibir</a> la distribución de alimentos sólo para griegos planificada por la Aurora Dorada en la plaza de Ática, un barrio del centro de la ciudad de Atenas, el alcalde Yorgos Kaminis y la dirección de la Policía Nacional procedió a prohibir todas las reuniones públicas de la zona el miércoles 24 de julio. La policía justificó su decisión sobre la prohibición de todas las reuniones, y no sólo de la distribución de alimentos de la Aurora Dorada, al afirmar que los anarquistas tenían la intención de provocar enfrentamientos con los miembros de la Aurora Dorada. La prohibición no impidió que la Aurora Dorada implementase su plan de distribución de alimentos en su sede central en lugar de la plaza Ática. Además las escenas sin precedentes en el Parlamento siguen con la diputada de Aurora Dorada y esposa del líder del partido Eleni Zarulia participando en ataques ad hominem a la hija del vicepresidente del parlamento Yiannis Dragasakis, que pertenece al partido de SYRIZA.<br /><br />El mismo día, en la ciudad de <a href="http://left.gr/news/patra-epeisodia-kai-traymaties-meta-apo-nea-patridokapili-fiesta-tis-hr-aygis">Patras</a> varios enfretamientos tuvieron lugar entre los activistas antifascistas y miembros de la Aurora Dorada que pusieron una ofrenda floral en el monumento a los caídos en el conflicto de Chipre. Tres miembros de la Αurora Dorada fueron heridos y trasladados al hospital. La policía dispersó los enfrentamientos con abundante uso de gases lacrimógenos y procedió a detener a 25 antifascistas. Por otra parte, el jueves, miembros de la Aurora Dorada intentaron intimidar a los participantes en un evento de LGBT, y a continuación, procedieron en golpear a un <a href="http://left.gr/news/o-syriza-ahaias-gia-tin-epithesi-se-melos-toy-kai-ta-epeisodia-stin-patra">miembro</a> de 16 años del movimiento juvenil del partido de SYRIZA en la estación de tren de cercanías. Los informes indican que los policías antidisturbios estuvieron presentes durante la paliza, pero no intervinieron.<br /><br /><b>5. La fianza de Kostas Sakkas</b> <br /><br />Múltiples eventos se llevaron a cabo en todo el país esta semana con el fin de recaudar fondos para la fianza de 30.000€ exigida por el Tribunal de Apelaciones para la liberación de <a href="https://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1483501">Kostas Sakkas</a>, un anarquista que había sido detenido en la cárcel durante dos años, siete meses y ocho días sin juicio por cargos de posesión de armas de fuego y participación en un grupo terrorista. Sakkas había iniciado una huelga de hambre el 4 de junio, después de haberse superado todos los límites de detención preventiva legales. Su caso generó un gran movimiento de solidaridad. Fue puesto en libertad después de 38 días de huelga de hambre.<br /><br />Indymedia Atenas anunció el 23 de julio que 18.419€ ya han sido recogidos para la fianza. Se espera que el saldo restante se recogerá a través de recaudación de fondos en Grecia y en el extranjero, así como contribuciones individuales. Cabe señalar que un concierto solidario con Kostas Sakkas, organizado en la casa okupa K*VOX, que lidera el esfuerzo de recaudación de fondos, fue agredida por la policía el pasado sábado. También cabe destacar que la etiqueta discográfica británica Pumpkin Records ha lanzado una compilación de música descargable con y que todas las ganancias serán destinadas al fondo de fianza.<br /><br /><b>6. Otras protestas</b><br /><br />Un número inusualmente grande de protestas tuvo tuvieron lugar esta semana en Grecia a mediados de julio, un período del año en que la actividad política normalmente comienza a retroceder debido a las vacaciones de verano. En particular, según ha informado <a href="https://twitter.com/northaura">@northaura</a>, la Federación de Profesores OLME organizó una protesta en Syntagma el lunes debido al despido de 2.500 profesores de educación técnica. El martes, de acuerdo con <a href="https://twitter.com/KHatzinikolaou">@ KHatzinikolaou</a>, fue el turno de los empleados del sector privado para protestar contra un proyecto de ley que anula la fiesta del domingo. El viernes, <a href="https://twitter.com/MavriMelani">@MavriMelani </a>informó que los ganaderos que protestaban en la fábrica de productos lácteos Dodoni en el noroeste de Grecia exigiendo el pago atraso de sus productos y que fueron agredidos por los antidisturbios cuando salían del lugar de la protesta. Un manifestante se desmayó debido a los gases lacrimógenos y tuvo que ser trasladado al hospital.<br /><br /><i>Esto ha sido el último informativo la temporada. El radiobubble permanecerá cerrado durante todo el mes de agosto. En nombre del equipo de #rbnews internacional, gracias por escucharnos y os deseamos un buen verano. Nos vemos en Septiembre.</i><div>
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Кроткаяhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00526347887822752050noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2484141008782526310.post-80856689316652049172013-07-24T09:50:00.001+03:002013-07-24T09:50:46.252+03:00#rbnews weekly bulletin 13-19 July 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The text companion to <a href="http://international.radiobubble.gr/2013/07/rbnews-international-show-20-july-2013.html" target="_blank">this week's #rbnews international show</a> is now online. You can read it after the jump.<br />
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1. Continued abuses against trans women in Thessaloniki.<br />
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The Greek Transgender Support Association denounced a new case of brutal and arbitrary detention of transgender women in Thessaloniki in the night of 17 July, while yet another such incident was reported on 19 July. These events come as part of a long series of such detentions since the end of May 2013, with several women having been detained several times for no other reason than their sexual orientation, while others were asked if they were members of the Transgender Association. Furthermore, on 04 June, the Association’s lawyer Elektra Koutra was detained herself after she went to the police station and demanded to see her clients. Both Elektra Koutra and the Association have filed lawsuits against the police for these incidents.<br />
Minister of Public Order Nikos Dendias drew the ire of the Transgender Europe Association when he sought to justify the arbitrary detentions with the argument that they are intended to “improve the image of city areas” and to “tackle, among others, prostitution and exploitation of the sexual life of socially and economically vulnerable individuals, to enhance citizens’ feeling of safety and to improve the image of the abovementioned areas.”<br />
Meanwhile, the re-introduction of public health provision 39A, which allows forcible testing for HIV of groups considered to be “at risk”, continues drawing harsh criticism from the international public health and human rights community. The provision had allowed upon its introduction in 2012 for a massive sweep operation against drug users in Athens, whose personal details and HIV status had been released to the media. It had been revoked in April 2013 but was immediately reintroduced by Minister of Health Adonis Georgiadis as soon as he took office two weeks ago following the cabinet reshuffle.<br />
A Lancet editorial this week, titled “HIV testing in Greece: repeating past mistakes”, notes that not only is such a policy in breach of basic human rights, but that it is also counter-productive in terms of public health. However, the Minister of Health made it clear in parliament on 12 July that he not only intends to maintain the provision for the time being, but also that he considers the opinion of international groups as irrelevant. <br />
Adonis Georgiadis caused further mayhem on Friday 19 July when he sought to visit the Attikon hospital under the escort of two platoons of riot police. The Attikon staff were among the first and most vocal to react to his announcement, upon taking office, that hospitals would be shut down to save money, and gathered to protest his visit. The Minister claims that he was heckled and even punched by protesting staff, while the staff union say that they were assaulted by the riot police escort in plain view of the patients. Available videos of the incident show neither.<br />
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2. Austerity measures, demonstrations and Schaeuble’s visit<br />
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The Greek parliament passed on Wednesday evening a new austerity package that allows, among other things, for the sacking and/or inclusion in the so-called mobility scheme of several thousands of civil servants. “Mobility” means the suspension of civil servants on reduced pay, and their reintegration in the civil service only if a new position can be identified for them. The groups hardest hit by this provision, namely teachers, school janitors, municipal policemen and municipal workers at large, have been engaging in industrial action since last week and held several demonstrations on Tuesday and Wednesday to protest the measures. A controversial provision that enabled criminal liability of mayors if their municipalities exceeded their planned budget was pulled out at the last minute. The bill was passed with a slim majority of 153 votes out of a total of 300 MPs.<br />
Furthermore, downtown Athens was put on lockdown on Thursday 18 July for the visit of German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble to Greece. Several central metro stations were closed and any form of public gathering was banned in a large portion of downtown Athens by the police, on the basis of legislation dating back to the days of the Junta. It is the second time in the last year that such draconian measures are put in place, both times for the visit of German officials, the first being Angela Merkel’s visit to Greece in October 2012. A protest was held in Athens against what essentially amounted to a curfew on Thursday afternoon, at the end of which a delegation of protesters handed a letter of complaint to the European Commission office in Athens.<br />
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3. ERT shutdown, continued<br />
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Greece’s public broadcaster ERT is still transmitting 40 days after the government officially shut it down on 11 June. Broadcasts continue online, via satellite with the help of the European Broadcasting Union and on analogue frequencies wherever possible. The federation of ERT employees, POSPERT, voted on Thursday 18 July to continue occupying the premises and broadcasting.<br />
Meanwhile, the so-called “Greek Public Television” channel, which was launched last week by the government, is also broadcasting on the ERT digital frequencies with the help of digital network provider DIGEA. It remains unclear whether the channel has any legal existence and if it even has a licence to broadcast. Artists who had announced that they would not allow any new broadcaster to use their work are still complaining about the fact that the channel is doing it nonetheless, while there has also been at least one case of a civil society organization that denied that it had submitted to the channel a promotion TV spot for its work.<br />
Parliament rejected on 18 July a proposal by SYRIZA to establish an investigation committee into the ERT shutdown issue. It must be noted that Democratic Left, which opposed the shutdown, voted against the proposal, while Golden Dawn, which supported it, was absent altogether from the voting process.<br />
Media unions went on strike in the private sector on Friday as legislation paving the way for a new public broadcaster to be created was voted through Parliament, with the minister in charge pledging to create a service that would be free from political intervention. All of the government’s 155 MPs supported the legislation despite several lawmakers expressing qualms earlier in the day. The bill did not receive any other support in the 300-seat House.<br />
SYRIZA’s Alexis Tsipras accused the government of an “unconstitutional and undemocratic” action and said that the “hard core of the [Antonis] Samaras government despises democracy.” He also questioned whether Pantelis Kapsis, the deputy minister in charge of the new public broadcaster and a former managing director at Lambrakis Press, which owns 22 percent of private TV channel Mega, was the appropriate person to lead the new public broadcaster.<br />
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4. The impact of austerity on demographics<br />
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Austerity has fuelled a dramatic decrease in the birthrate and a rapid increase in stillbirths in Greece and is directly related to the increase in unemployment, research from National School of Public Health (ESDY) has shown.<br />
The research, whose findings were published in Sunday's Eleftherotypia, found that from 2009 to 2011, the birthrate has fallen consistently, from 10.45 births per 1,000 inhabitants in 2009 to 9.39 births per 1,000 inhabitants in 2011, an overall decrease of 10.13%. Similarly, from 2008 to 2011, the rate of stillbirths has increased by 21.5%, from 3.31 per 1,000 in 2008, to 4.01 in 2011.<br />
The report notes that these trends accompanied the dramatic fall in GDP from 2009 to 2011 by 14.82% and the increasing rates of unemployment, particularly among women, from 11.7% in 2008 to 24.5% in 2011.<br />
The researchers who conducted the study noted that economic downturns are usually associated with such an evolution of a country’s demographics. Eleftherotypia notes that a similar trend can be observed in Portugal, where the birthrate has fallen by 14% since 2008.<br />
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5. Golden Dawn’s antics in parliament<br />
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The Greek parliament became on Thursday the setting for unprecedented scenes as Golden Dawn crudely insulted and threatened SYRIZA MPs inside the assembly and offered to take the fight outside, prompting an intervention of the parliament guard in front of the building as things were about to get out of hand.<br />
According to the English-language version of newspaper Kathimerini, it was the efforts of far-right Golden Dawn to hold a festival in Kalamata on August 3 and 4 which prompted the row, that culminated in MPs from the neo-Nazi party hurling obscenities at SYRIZA lawmakers and making references to Greece’s bloody Civil War.<br />
The incident took place after SYRIZA MP Thanasis Petrakos claimed that Golden Dawn deputies were using the party’s parliamentary office to telephone and intimidate anti-fascist campaigners in Kalamata who want to prevent the August 3 and 4 festival from taking place.<br />
Golden Dawn MP Dimitris Koukoutsis accused SYRIZA of being “hooded murderers” that “burn Athens.” He then made reference to the battles at Mount Vitsi and Mount Grammos in 1949 that led to national forces overcoming Communist resistance and bringing the Civil War to an end.<br />
“At Vitsi and Grammos, we buried you in the sand,” Koukoutsis told SYRIZA MPs. The Golden Dawn deputies then left the debating chamber, walking past the SYRIZA benches and swearing at the leftist lawmakers. They also offered to fight the SYRIZA deputies outside, prompting the intervention of the parliament guard.<br />
Government spokesman Simos Kedikoglou labelled the incident as “condemnable and deplorable” but there does not seem to have been any further reaction on behalf of the government or the speaker of the parliament. It was announced on Friday morning that the secretary-general of the Peloponnese prefecture cancelled all events planned in the Kalamata Harbour Park, including the Golden Dawn festival, until 30 August.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2484141008782526310.post-21732916091805562162013-07-24T09:49:00.001+03:002013-07-24T09:49:45.290+03:00#rbnews international show 20 July 2013 - Health in the time of the crisis<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<li>As aduções de transexuais continuam em Thessaloniki</li>
<li>Os trabalhadores responderam na adoção do novo pacote de austeridade com greves e manifestações, enquanto o Ministro das Finanças alemão, Wolfgang Schäuble, visitava Atenas</li>
<li>A transmissão do programa de greve da ERT continua, em paralelo com o esquema transicional do governo.</li>
<li>O impacto demográfico da austeridade é dramático, segundo pesquisa realizada pela Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública</li>
<li>A Aurora Dourada (Golden Dawn) desafia novamente no Parlamento</li>
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<a name='more'></a><br /><b>1. As aduções de transexuais continuam em Thessaloniki</b><br /><br />A Associação Grega de Apoio à Transexuais denunciou um novo caso de <a href="http://left.gr/news/epithesi-astynomikon-se-trans-gynaikes-sto-kentro-tis-thessalonikis-fotografies">detenção brutal e arbitrária</a> de mulheres transexuais em Thessaloniki na noite de 17 de Julho, enquanto um outro incidente similar tinha sido relatado em 19 de julho. Estes acontecimentos vêm como parte de uma longa série de detenções desde o final de maio de 2013, com várias mulheres terem sido detidas por nenhuma outra razão a não ser sua orientação sexual, enquanto outras foram perguntadas se elas eram membros da Associação Grega de Apoio à Transexuais. Além disso, em 04 de junho, a advogada Elektra Koutra da <a href="http://transgendersupportassociation.wordpress.com/2013/07/19/tgeu-thessaloniki-trans-women-lay-down-in-protest-against-their-detention/">Associação</a> também foi detida depois que ela foi até a delegacia e pediu para ver seus clientes. Ambos, Elektra Koutra e a Associação, entraram com ações contra a polícia por estes incidentes.<br /><br />O Ministro da Ordem Pública, Nikos Dendias, atraiu a ira da Transgender Europe Association, quando ele tentou justificar as detenções arbitrárias, com o argumento de que eles estão destinados a "<a href="http://left.gr/news/otan-ta-trans-atoma-prosagontai-gia-na-veltiothei-i-eikona-tis-polis">melhorar a imagem de áreas da cidade</a>" e "enfrentar, entre outros, a prostituição e a exploração da vida sexual das pessoas social e economicamente vulneráveis, para aumentar a sensação de segurança dos cidadãos e melhorar a imagem das áreas acima referidas". <br /><br />Enquanto isso, a re-introdução da provisão 39A referente à serviços de saúde pública, que permite testes de HIV à força em grupos considerados "de risco", continua atraindo duras críticas da comunidade internacional de saúde pública e de direitos humanos. A provisão 39A após sua introdução em 2012, havia permitido para uma operação de varredura em massa contra os usuários de drogas em Atenas, cujos detalhes pessoais e status de HIV tinha sido liberado pela mídia. Ela foi revogada em abril de 2013, mas foi imediatamente reintroduzida pelo Ministro da Saúde <a href="http://international.radiobubble.gr/2013/07/greek-health-minister-says-he-will-not.html">Adonis Georgiadis</a> assim que assumiu o cargo há duas semanas, após a remodelação do gabinete.<br /><br />Um editorial do <a href="http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2813%2961546-9/fulltext?elsca1=TW&elsca2=socialmedia">Lancet</a> desta semana, intitulado "Testes de HIV na Grécia: repetindo os erros do passado", observa que essa política não somente violenta os direitos humanos básicos, mas ela também é contra-produtiva em termos de saúde pública. No entanto, em 12 de julho, o Ministro da Saúde deixou claro no Parlamento que ele não só tem a intenção de manter a provisão 39A, mas que ele também considera a opinião de grupos internacionais como irrelevante.<br /><br />Adonis Georgiadis causou ainda mais confusão na sexta-feira 19 de julho, quando ele tentou visitar o hospital Attikon sob a escolta de dois pelotões de policiais. Os funcionarios de Attikon estavam entre os primeiros e mais expressivos para reagir ao seu anúncio, ao assumir o cargo, que os hospitais seriam fechados para poupar dinheiro, e se reuniram para protestar contra a sua visita. O ministro afirma que ele foi vaiado e até mesmo recebeu <a href="http://www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2013/07/19/athens-protesters-attack-health-minister-during-hospital-inspection/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed:+KeepTalkingGreece+%28Keep+Talking+Greece%29">um soco dos manifestantes</a>, enquanto o sindicato dos funcionários diz que os funcionários foram agredidos pela escolta policial à vista dos pacientes. Vídeos disponíveis sobre o incidente nem mostrar. <a href="http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1rleqdg">funcionários</a> dizem que foram agredidos pela escolta policial motim à vista dos pacientes. Vídeos disponíveis sobre o incidente não comprova nenhuma das afirmações do Ministro.<br /><br /><b>2. Os trabalhadores responderam na adoção do novo pacote de austeridade com greves e manifestações, enquanto o Ministro das Finanças alemão, Wolfgang Schäuble, visitava Atenas</b><br /><br />O Parlamento grego aprovou nesta quarta-feira à noite um novo pacote de austeridade, que permite, entre outras coisas, a demissão e/ou inclusão no chamado esquema de mobilidade de vários milhares de funcionários públicos. Chamam de "mobilidade" a suspensão de funcionários com seu salário reduzido, e sua reintegração no serviço público somente se uma nova posição pode ser identificada por eles. Os grupos mais atingidos por esta provisão, ou seja, professores, professionais de seguridade de escolas, policiais municipais e trabalhadores municipais em geral, têm se envolvido em greve desde a semana passada e realizaram várias manifestações na terça-feira e quarta-feira para protestar contra as medidas. A cláusula polêmica que permitiu a responsabilidade criminal dos prefeitos se seus municípios excederam o orçamento previsto foi retirada no último minuto. A lei foi aprovada com uma pequena maioria de 153 votos de um total de 300 deputados.<br />Além disso, o centro de Atenas foi colocado em confinamento na quinta-feira 18 de julho para a visita do ministro das Finanças alemão, Wolfgang Schaeuble, na Grécia. Várias estações de metrô centrais foram fechadas e qualquer forma de reunião pública foi proibida em grande parte do centro de Atenas pela polícia, com base em legislação que remonta aos dias da Junta. É a segunda vez no ano passado, que tais medidas draconianas são postas em prática, ambas as vezes para a visita de autoridades alemãs, sendo a primeira visita de Angela Merkel para a Grécia em outubro de 2012. Um protesto foi realizado em Atenas contra a proibição de mobilidade na quinta-feira à tarde, no final do qual uma delegação de manifestantes entregaram uma carta de reclamação para o gabinete da Comissão Europeia em Atenas.<br /><br /><i>Fonte: #rbnews feed</i><br /><br /><b>3. Fechamento da ERT, continuação</b><br /><br />A emissora pública da Grécia, ERT, ainda está transmitindo 40 dias depois que o governo a fechou oficialmente em 11 de junho. As transmissões continuam on-line, via satélite, com a ajuda da União Europeia de Radiodifusão e em frequências analógicas sempre que possível. A federação dos empregados da ERT, <a href="http://www.ertopen.com./eidiseis/item/1887-pospert-synechizoyme-atalanteyta-kai-dynamika-ton-agwna-mas#.UekZ-o1M9gE">POSPERT</a>, votou nesta quinta-feira 18 de julho para continuar ocupando as instalações e continuar transmitindo.<br />Enquanto isso, o canal chamado "Greek Public Television", que foi lançado na semana passada pelo governo, também está transmitindo em frequências digitais da ERT com a ajuda do provedor de rede digital DIGEA. Ainda não está claro se o canal tem alguma existência legal e se tem licença de transmissão. <a href="http://manthoulis.wordpress.com/2013/07/16/%CE%BD%CE%B1-%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%B1%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B1%CE%BB%CE%B5%CE%AF-%CE%B7-%CF%80%CF%81%CE%BF%CE%B2%CE%BF%CE%BB%CE%AE-%CF%84%CF%89%CE%BD-%CE%B1%CE%BA%CF%85%CE%B2%CE%AD%CF%81%CE%BD%CE%B7%CF%84%CF%89/">Artistas que tinham anunciado</a> que não iriam permitir que qualquer nova emissora usasse o seu trabalho ainda estão reclamando sobre o fato de que o novo canal do governo o faz; também houve pelo menos um caso de uma <a href="http://left.gr/news/antidrasi-apo-diktyo-mesogeios-sos-gia-ti-metadosi-minymatos-toy-apo-tin-edt">organização da sociedade civil</a>, que negou que havia colocado anúncio neste canal de TV para promover o seu trabalho.<br /><br />O Parlamento rejeitou em 18 de julho uma proposta por SYRIZA de estabelecer <a href="http://www.enet.gr/?i=news-room.el&id=375407">uma comissão de investigação</a> sobre o problema de desligamento da ERT. Deve-se notar que a Esquerda Democrática, que se opôs ao desligamento, votou contra a proposta, enquanto a Golden Dawn, que apoiou, era completamente ausente do processo de votação.<br /><br />Sindicatos de mídia do setor privado entraram em greve na sexta-feira quando a legislação que abre o caminho para a criação de uma nova emissora pública estava sendo votada no Parlamento. Naquele dia, o ministro responsável se comprometia a criar um serviço que estaria livre da intervenção política. Todos os 155 deputados do governo apoiaram a legislação, apesar de vários legisladores expressaram dúvidas no início do dia. O <a href="http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_19/07/2013_510395">projeto de lei</a> não recebeu nenhum outro tipo de apoio na Câmara de 300 lugares.<br />O Alexis Tsipras do SYRIZA acusou o governo de uma ação "inconstitucional e antidemocrática" e disse que o "núcleo duro do governo de Samaras despreza a democracia". Ele também questionou se Pantelis Kapsis, o vice-ministro encarregado da nova emissora pública e ex-diretor administrativo na Lambrakis Press, que detém 22 por cento do canal de TV privado “MEGA”, era a pessoa adequada para liderar a nova emissora pública.<br /><br /><b>4. O impacto da austeridade na demografia</b><br /><br />A austeridade tem provocado uma diminuição drástica na taxa de natalidade, um aumento rápido nos natimortos, enquanto está diretamente relacionada com o aumento do desemprego, segundo a pesquisa da Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública (ESDY).<br /><br />A pesquisa, cujos resultados foram publicados na <a href="http://www.enetenglish.gr/?i=news.en.article&id=1275&utm_source=EnetEnglish+general&utm_campaign=a9a174b6e0-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_2d5bc1ed1e-a9a174b6e0-26966345">Eleftherotypia</a> deste Domingo, constatou que, de 2009 a 2011, a taxa de natalidade tem caído de forma consistente: de 10,45 nascimentos por 1.000 habitantes em 2009, nos 9,39 nascimentos por mil habitantes em 2011, uma redução total de 10,13%. Da mesma forma, de 2008 a 2011, a taxa de natimortos aumentou para 21,5%, passando de 3,31 por mil em 2008, para 4,01 em 2011.<br />O relatório observa que essas tendências acompanham a dramática queda do PIB de 2009 para2011 por 14,82%, e as crescentes taxas de desemprego, especialmente entre as mulheres, de 11,7% em 2008 para 24,5% em 2011.<br /><br />Os pesquisadores que conduziram o estudo observaram que as crises econômicas são normalmente associadas com uma tal evolução da demografia de um país. Eleftherotypia observa que uma tendência semelhante pode ser observada em Portugal, onde a taxa de natalidade caiu 14% desde 2008.<br /><br /><b>5. A Aurora Dourada (Golden Dawn) desafia novamente no Parlamento</b><br /><br />O parlamento grego tornou-se nesta quinta-feira o cenário para cenas inéditas quando a Aurora Dourada (Golden Dawn) grosseiramente insultou e ameaçou MPs do SYRIZA dentro da assembléia, e se ofereceu para levar a luta do lado de fora, obrigando a guarda do parlamento de intervir porque as coisas estavam prestes a sair de mão.<br /><br />De acordo com a versão Inglês do jornal <a href="http://ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_18/07/2013_510166">Kathimerini</a>, foram os esforços da Aurora Dourada (Golden Dawn) da extrema-direita de realizar um festival em Kalamata em 3 e 4 de agosto que motivou os deputados do partido neo-nazista de atirar obscenidades para legisladores do SYRIZA e fazer referências a sangrenta Guerra Civil da Grécia.<br /><br />O incidente ocorreu após que o MP do SYRIZA, Thanasis Petrakos, afirmou que os deputados da Golden Dawn estavam usando o escritorio parlamentar do partido para telefonar e intimidar os ativistas anti-fascistas em Kalamata que querem impedir que o festival de Agosto ocorra.<br /><br />O MP de Golden Dawn Dimitris Koukoutsis acusou o SYRIZA de ser "assassinos encapuzados" que "queimam a Atenas." Ele então fez referência às batalhas no Monte Vitsi e Monte Grammos em 1949 que levou às forças nacionais superarem a resistência comunista e trazer a Guerra Civil ao fim. <br /><br />"No Vitsi e no Grammos, nós enterramos vocês na areia", disse Koukoutsis nos MPs do SYRIZA. Os deputados da Golden Dawn, em seguida, andaram à direção dos bancos do SYRIZA e xingaram os parlamentares de esquerda. Eles também se ofereceram para lutar contra os deputados do SYRIZA fora do They também se ofereceu para lutar contra os deputados SYRIZA fora do prédio, o que levou à intervenção da guarda parlamentar.<br /><br />A porta-voz do governo, Simos Kedikoglou, classificou o incidente como "condenável e lamentável", mas não parece ter sido qualquer outra reação, em nome do governo ou do presidente do parlamento. Foi anunciado na sexta-feira de manhã que o secretário-geral da <a href="http://www.apd-depin.gov.gr/mediaupload/%CE%91%CE%9D%CE%91%CE%9A%CE%9F%CE%99%CE%9D%CE%A9%CE%A3%CE%95%CE%99%CE%A3%202013/19-07-2013b.pdf">prefeitura de Peloponeso</a> cancelou todos os eventos programados no Kalamata Harbour Park até 30 de agosto, incluindo o festival da Golden Dawn.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.apd-depin.gov.gr/mediaupload/%CE%91%CE%9D%CE%91%CE%9A%CE%9F%CE%99%CE%9D%CE%A9%CE%A3%CE%95%CE%99%CE%A3%202013/19-07-2013b.pdf" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a></div>
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En las noticias de #rbnews international de esta semana</div>
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<li>Siguen las detenciones de mujeres transexuales en Tesálonica </li>
<li>Atenas recibe la visita del ministro de Finanzas alemán, Wolfgang Schäuble, mientras en el país proliferan huelgas y manifestaciones como respuesta a la adopción de nuevas medidas de austeridad, condicionadas por el nuevo tramo de rescate</li>
<li>Sigue la transmisión de la radiotelevisión pública ERT</li>
<li>La austeridad está teniendo en Grecia un impacto demográfico dramático, según una encuesta realizada por la Escuela Nacional de Salud Pública</li>
<li>Nuevos retos de Aurora Dorada en el Parlamento</li>
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<b>1. Abusos continuados contra mujeres trans en Tesalónica.</b></div>
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La Asociación Griega de Apoyo a Transexuales denunció un nuevo caso de detención brutal y arbitraria de mujeres transexuales en Tesalónica la noche del 17 de julio, así como otro incidente el 19 de julio. Estos hechos se enmarcan en una larga serie de detenciones que vienen teniendo lugar desde finales de mayo de 2013, con varias mujeres detenidas en varias ocasiones por la única razón de su orientación sexual. Varias testigos afirman que durante las redadas la policía preguntaba si eran miembros de la Asociación de Transexuales. Por otra parte, el 4 de junio, la abogada de la Asociación de Elektra Kutra fue detenida después de ir a comisaría y pedir a ver a sus clientes. Tanto Elektra Kutra como la Asociación han presentado demandas contra la policía por estos incidentes.</div>
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El Ministro de Orden Público Nikos Dendias provocó la ira de la Asociación de Transgéneros de Europa cuando trató de justificar las detenciones arbitrarias con el argumento de que están destinados a "mejorar la imagen de las zonas de la ciudad" y para "hacer frente, entre otras cosas, a la prostitución y la explotación sexual de personas social y económicamente vulnerables, para mejorar la sensación de seguridad de los ciudadanos y mejorar la imagen de las áreas antes mencionadas".</div>
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Mientras tanto, la re-introducción del decreto de salud pública 39A, que permite realizar pruebas forzosas de VIH a los grupos que se consideran "en riesgo", continúa recibiendo duras críticas de la comunidad de salud pública internacional y de la de derechos humanos. La disposición, a partir de su introducción en 2012, ha permitido el desarrollo de una operación de control masivo contra las personas drogodependientes en Atenas, cuyos datos personales y estado de VIH habían sido publicados en los medios de comunicación. El decreto había sido revocado en abril de 2013, pero fue renovado inmediatamente por el ministro de Salud Ádonis Georgiadis cuando asumió el cargo hace dos semanas después de la reorganización del gabinete.</div>
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The Lancet, una prestigiosa revista de la comunidad académica de medicina, dedico esta semana pasada su editorial a esta cuestión. Titulado "la prueba del VIH en Grecia: se repiten los errores del pasado", el texto señala que no sólo dicha política supone una violación de los derechos humanos básicos, sino que también es contraproducente en términos de salud pública. Sin embargo, el Ministro de Salud dejó claro el pasado 12 de julio en su comparecencia en el Parlamento que tiene la intención de mantenerla en vigor, por el momento, además de calificar de "irrelevantes" las opiniones de los grupos internacionales.</div>
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Ádonis Georgiadis causó aún más revuelo el viernes 19 de julio, cuando trató de visitar el hospital Attikon bajo la escolta de dos grupos de policías antidisturbios. El personal de este hospital de Atenas había sido de los primeros a reaccionar ante sus declaraciones durante el discurso de investidura, en el que anunció que se cerrarían hospitales como medida de ahorro, y se congregaron para protestar por su visita. El ministro afirma que fue abucheado e incluso rechazado por el personal en protesta, mientras que el sindicato del personal dice que fueron atacados por la escolta de la policía antidisturbios a la vista de los pacientes. Los vídeos disponibles del incidente no muestran ninguna agresividad física por parte de los protestantes.</div>
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<a href="http://left.gr/news/epithesi-astynomikon-se-trans-gynaikes-sto-kentro-tis-thessalonikis-fotografies">http://left.gr/news/epithesi-astynomikon-se-trans-gynaikes-sto-kentro-tis-thessalonikis-fotografies</a><br />
<a href="http://transgendersupportassociation.wordpress.com/2013/07/19/tgeu-thessaloniki-trans-women-lay-down-in-protest-against-their-detention/">http://transgendersupportassociation.wordpress.com/2013/07/19/tgeu-thessaloniki-trans-women-lay-down-in-protest-against-their-detention/</a><br />
<a href="http://left.gr/news/otan-ta-trans-atoma-prosagontai-gia-na-veltiothei-i-eikona-tis-polis">http://left.gr/news/otan-ta-trans-atoma-prosagontai-gia-na-veltiothei-i-eikona-tis-polis</a><br />
<a href="http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2813%2961546-9/fulltext?elsca1=TW&elsca2=socialmedia">http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2813%2961546-9/fulltext?elsca1=TW&elsca2=socialmedia</a><br />
<a href="http://international.radiobubble.gr/2013/07/greek-health-minister-says-he-will-not.html">http://international.radiobubble.gr/2013/07/greek-health-minister-says-he-will-not.html</a><br />
<a href="http://www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2013/07/19/athens-protesters-attack-health-minister-during-hospital-inspection/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+KeepTalkingGreece+%28Keep+Talking+Greece%29">http://www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2013/07/19/athens-protesters-attack-health-minister-during-hospital-inspection/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+KeepTalkingGreece+%28Keep+Talking+Greece%29</a><br />
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<b>2. Medidas de austeridad, manifestaciones y la visita de Schäuble</b></div>
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El Parlamento griego aprobó el miércoles por la tarde nuevas medidas de austeridad que supondrán, entre otras cosas, el despido de varios miles de personas del funcionariado público con o sin inclusión en el denominado programa de movilidad. Dicha "movilidad" significa a la práctica la suspensión definitiva del puesto de trabajo, por el que se sigue cobrando con reducción de sueldo, y la posibilidad de una posterior reintegración en la función pública sólo si se identifica un puesto vacante que sea adecuado para al perfil. Los grupos más afectados por esta disposición, es decir, profesorado, conserjes escolares, policías municipales y en general todo tipo de empleos municipales, han estado participando en una huelga desde la semana pasada y celebraron varias manifestaciones el martes y el miércoles en protesta por las medidas. También se preveía en el paquete de austeridad la inclusión de una controvertida disposición que hubiera establecido una responsabilidad penal para los alcaldes cuyos municipios excedieran el límite de déficit previsto en el presupuesto, pero se retiró en el último minuto debido a las críticas. En el Parlamento, el proyecto de ley fue aprobado con una escasa mayoría de 153 votos de un total de 300 diputados.</div>
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Por otra parte, el centro de Atenas fue completamente aislado por un impresionante dispositivo policial el jueves 18 de julio a raíz de la visita del ministro de Finanzas alemán, Wolfgang Schaeuble, a Grecia. Varias estaciones centrales de metro se cerraron y fue prohibida cualquier forma de reunión pública en gran parte del centro de Atenas, sobre la base de una legislación que data desde los días de la Junta militar. Es la segunda vez en el último año que tales medidas draconianas se ponen en marcha, ambas veces con motivo de la visita de autoridades alemanas, la primera ocasión fue la visita de Angela Merkel a Grecia en octubre de 2012. El jueves por la tarde se celebró en Atenas una protesta en contra de las excesivas medidas "de seguridad" , al final de la cual una delegación de los manifestantes entregó una carta de queja a la oficina de la Comisión Europea en Atenas.</div>
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Flujo de noticias de #rbnews feed<br />
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La cadena pública de Grecia ERT sigue transmitiendo, 40 días después de que el gobierno la cerrara oficialmente el 11 de junio. Las emisiones continúan en línea, a través de satélite con la ayuda de la Unión Europea de Radiodifusión, y por frecuencias analógicas cuando es posible. La federación de empleados de ERT, POSPERT, votó el jueves 18 de julio a favor de seguir ocupando las instalaciones y la radiodifusión.</div>
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Mientras tanto, el llamado canal de "televisión pública griega", que fue lanzado la semana pasada por el gobierno, también está emitiendo en las frecuencias digitales ERT con la ayuda del proveedor de red digital DIGEA. No está claro si el canal tiene una existencia legal ni una licencia para transmitir. Los artistas que habían anunciado que no iban a permitir a la nueva emisora usar su trabajo denuncian que el canal lo está haciendo, mientras que también ha trascendido un caso de una organización de la sociedad civil, que negó haber presentado al canal un anuncio de televisión para promover su trabajo.</div>
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El Parlamento rechazó el 18 de julio una propuesta de SYRIZA para establecer un comité de investigación sobre el asunto del apagón de la ERT. Debe tenerse en cuenta que Izquierda Democrática, que se opuso a la parada, votó en contra de la propuesta, mientras que Aurora Dorada, que la apoyó, estuvo ausente por completo del proceso de votación.</div>
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En la noche del viernes 19 de Julio el parlamento votó en favor del proyecto de ley sobre el funcionamiento de la nueva radiotelevisión pública. El responsable del gobierno sobre el asunto, Pantelís Kapsís, declaró que la nueva radiotelevisión va a emplear 2.000 personas. </div>
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<a href="http://manthoulis.wordpress.com/2013/07/16/%CE%BD%CE%B1-%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%B1%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B1%CE%BB%CE%B5%CE%AF-%CE%B7-%CF%80%CF%81%CE%BF%CE%B2%CE%BF%CE%BB%CE%AE-%CF%84%CF%89%CE%BD-%CE%B1%CE%BA%CF%85%CE%B2%CE%AD%CF%81%CE%BD%CE%B7%CF%84%CF%89/">http://manthoulis.wordpress.com/2013/07/16/%CE%BD%CE%B1-%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%B1%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B1%CE%BB%CE%B5%CE%AF-%CE%B7-%CF%80%CF%81%CE%BF%CE%B2%CE%BF%CE%BB%CE%AE-%CF%84%CF%89%CE%BD-%CE%B1%CE%BA%CF%85%CE%B2%CE%AD%CF%81%CE%BD%CE%B7%CF%84%CF%89/</a><br />
<a href="http://left.gr/news/antidrasi-apo-diktyo-mesogeios-sos-gia-ti-metadosi-minymatos-toy-apo-tin-edt">http://left.gr/news/antidrasi-apo-diktyo-mesogeios-sos-gia-ti-metadosi-minymatos-toy-apo-tin-edt</a><br />
<a href="http://www.enet.gr/?i=news-room.el&id=375407">http://www.enet.gr/?i=news-room.el&id=375407</a><br />
<a href="http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_19/07/2013_510395">http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_19/07/2013_510395</a><br />
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La austeridad ha provocado un dramático descenso de la natalidad y el rápido aumento de nacidos muertos en Grecia, fenómenos que están directamente relacionado con el aumento del desempleo, como la investigación de la Escuela Nacional de Salud Pública (ESDY) ha demostrado.</div>
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La investigación, cuyos resultados fueron publicados en el diario de Eleftherotypia del domingo pasado, revela que a entre el 2009 y el 2011, la tasa de natalidad ha disminuido constantemente, desde 10,45 nacimientos por cada 1.000 habitantes en 2009 a 9,39 nacimientos por cada 1.000 habitantes en 2011, representando un descenso del 10,13%. Del mismo modo, de 2008 a 2011, la tasa de nacidos muertos se ha incrementado en un 21,5%, pasando de 3,31 por 1.000 en 2008, a 4,01 en 2011.</div>
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El informe señala que estas tendencias acompañaron la dramática caída de un 14,82% del PIB desde 2009 hasta 2011 y las crecientes tasas de desempleo, sobre todo entre las mujeres, del 11,7% en 2008 al 24,5% en 2011.</div>
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Los investigadores que realizaron el estudio señalaron que las crisis económicas suelen asociarse a esta evolución de la demografía de un país. Eleftherotypia señala que una tendencia similar se observa en Portugal, donde la tasa de natalidad ha caído un 14% desde 2008.</div>
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<b>5. Las travesuras de Aurora Dorada en el Parlamento</b></div>
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El Parlamento griego se convirtió el jueves en un auténtico circo con escenas inéditas protagonizadas por Aurora Dorada, crudamente insultando y provocando a los diputados de SYRIZA en la cámara de los diputados y amenazando con llevar la “lucha” fuera, lo que acabó requiriendo la intervención de la guardia del parlamento enfrente del edificio, ya que parecía que la tensión estaba a punto de descontrolarse.</div>
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De acuerdo con la versión en inglés del diario Kathimerini, fue la intención de los neonazis de Aurora Dorada para celebrar un festival en Kalamata el 3 y 4 de agosto, que provocó la disputa, que culminó con los diputados del partido neo-nazi profiriendo obscenidades contra los diputados de SYRIZA, haciendo incluso referencia a la guerra civil sangrienta de Grecia.</div>
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El portavoz de gobierno, Simos Kedikoglu, etiquetó el incidente como "condenable y lamentable", pero no se ha producido ninguna otra reacción en nombre del gobierno o del presidente del Parlamento. Se anunció el viernes por la mañana que el Secretario General de la prefectura de Peloponeso canceló todos los actos previstos en el parque del puerto de Kalamata, incluyendo el festival de Aurora Dorada, hasta el 30 de agosto.</div>
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<b>A la une de #rbnews international cette semaine: </b><br />
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<li>Les détentions de femmes transexuelles se poursuivent à Thessalonique </li>
<li>Avec une grève et des mobilisations ont répondu les travailleurs au vote d'un nouveau paquet de mesures d'austérité, mardi; jeudi, le Ministre des Finances allemand Wolfgang Schaüble a rendu une visite officielle à Athènes. </li>
<li>La diffusion du programme de grève de ERT se poursuit, mais la chaîne transitoire du gouvernement transmet aussi</li>
<li>Les conséquences de l'austérité à la démographie sont dramatiques, selon une recherche de l'Ecole Nationale de la Santé Publique </li>
<li>De nouvelles provocations de l'Aube Dorée ont eu lieu dans le Parlement la semaine passée</li>
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<a name='more'></a><b>1. Les attaques contre les femmes transexuelles se poursuivent à Salonique</b> <br />
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L'<a href="http://transgendersupportassociation.wordpress.com/2013/07/19/tgeu-thessaloniki-trans-women-lay-down-in-protest-against-their-detention/">Association de soutien aux transexuelles grecques</a> a denoncé certains cas de <a href="http://left.gr/news/epithesi-astynomikon-se-trans-gynaikes-sto-kentro-tis-thessalonikis-fotografies">détentions brutales et arbitraires de femmes transexuelles</a> à Thessalonique, produites au cours de la nuit du 17 juillet; un cas pareil a aussi été signalé le 19 juillet. Ces évenements font partie d'une longue série de détentions similaires depuis la fin de mai 2013; selon les sources, plusieurs femmes on été détenues plusieurs fois, pour aucune autre raison que leur orientation sexuelle, tandis que d'autres ont été demandées si elles étaient membres de l'Association des transexuelles. En plus, le 4 juin, l'avocate de l'association, Electra Koutra, a aussi été détenue elle-même, après s'être rendue au Commissariat et avoir demandé de rencontrer ses clients. Mme Koutra et l'Association ont toutes les deux déposé une plainte contre la police pour ces incidents.<br />
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Le Ministre de l'Ordre Public, Nikos Dendias, a attiré les foudres contre l'Association européenne des transexuelles, quand il a essayé de justifier les détentions arbitraires avec l'argument que la police a eu l'intention "<a href="http://left.gr/news/otan-ta-trans-atoma-prosagontai-gia-na-veltiothei-i-eikona-tis-polis">d'améliorer l'image de la ville</a>" et "d'adresser entre autres les problèmes de prostitution et d'exploitation de la vie sexuelle de personnes vulnérables au niveau économique et social, de renforcer le sentiment de sécurité des citoyens et d'améliorer l'image de régions abandonnées".<br />
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Εntre temps, <a href="http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(13)61546-9/fulltext?elsca1=TW&elsca2=socialmedia">la re-introcution de la provision pour la santé publique 39A</a>, qui permet de faire un test SIDA forcé aux personnes considérées à risque, continue de recevoir une critique forte de la part des communautés de santé publique internationale et de droits de l'homme. Quand elle a été introduite en mai 2012, cette provision avait permis une opération de balayage massive contre des usagers de drogue à Athènes, dont les donnés personnels et statut SIDA avaient été publiés par les médias. Elle avait été révoquée en avril 2013, mais a été <a href="http://international.radiobubble.gr/2013/07/greek-health-minister-says-he-will-not.html">reintroduite</a> par le Ministre de la Santé publique, Adonis Georgiadis, au moment où il a assumé sa fonction, deux semaines après le remaniement ministériel.<br />
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Adonis Georgiadis a provoqué encore des réactions, vendredi 19 juillet, quand il <a href="http://www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2013/07/19/athens-protesters-attack-health-minister-during-hospital-inspection/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+KeepTalkingGreece+%28Keep+Talking+Greece%29">a essayé de visiter l'hôpital Attikon</a>, accompagné par deux pelotons de police anti-émeute. Le personnel de l'hôpital ont été parmi les premiers et les plus dynamiques à réagir, quand il a annoncé la fermeture d'hôpitaux dans le but de faire des économies, et ils ont réalisé un rassemblement protestataire en réaction à sa visite. Le Ministre prétend avoir été chahuté et même aggressé, tandis que <a href="http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1rleqdg">le personnel denonce</a> avoir été attaqué par les policiers accompagnant Georgiadis, devant les yeux des patients. Les vidéos disponibles ne demontrent aucune des deux versions.<br />
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<b>2. Nouvelles mésures d'austérité, manifestations et la visite de W. Schaüble</b><br />
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Le Parlement grec a voté mercredi soir un nouveau paquet de mesures d'austérité, qui permet, entre autres, le licenciement et/ou inclusion de l'ainsi-dit schéma de mobilité pour plusieurs miliers de fonctionnaires. Dans le cadre de la mobilité, les fonctionnaires seront suspendus avec un salaire inférieur, et seraient réintégrés à la fonction publique, seulement si un nouveau poste était identifié pour eux. Les catégories qui sont le plus frappées par cette provision, c'est à dire les professeurs, les consièrges scolaires, les policiers municipaux et employés municipaux en général, ont commencé une grève depuis la semaine dernière et organisé plusieurs manifestations mardi et mercredi, contre ces mesures. Une provision controvertielle, permettant la responsabilité pénale des maires, si leurs communes excèdent le plan budgétaire, a été enlevée à la dernière minute. Le projet est passé avec une majorité faible de 153 voix sur 300.<br />
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En plus, le centre d'Athènes a été bloqué jeudi 18 juillet, à cause de la visite officielle en Grèce du Ministre des Finances allemand, Wolfgang Schaüble. Plusieurs arrêts du metro ont été fermés, et tout sorte de rassemblement public a été interdit par la police dans une grande partie du centre d'Athènes, à la base d'une loi datée de l 'époque du régime des colonels. C'est la deuxième fois pendant la dernière année que de telles mesures draconnienes sont implementées, toutes les deux fois à cause de visites de politiciens allemands. La première fois a été à l'occasion de la visite de la chancelière allemande, Angela Merkel en octobre 2012. Une manifestation a été organisée à Athènes contre ce qui essentielement s'est élevé à couvre-feu, mardi après midi, à la fin de laquelle, une délégation de manifestants a déposé une lettre à la Représentation de la Commission européenne à Athènes. <br />
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<b>3. La fermeture de ERT continue</b><br />
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La radio et télévision publique grecque, ERT, continue à transmette son programme, 40 jours après sa fermeture officielle par le gouvernement, le 11 juin. Le programme est diffusé en ligne, par satellite avec l'assistanse de la European Broadcasting Union, et en fréquences analogiques dans la mesure du possible. Le syndicat des travailleurs de ERT, <a href="http://www.ertopen.com./eidiseis/item/1887-pospert-synechizoyme-atalanteyta-kai-dynamika-ton-agwna-mas#.UekZ-o1M9gE">PROSPERT</a>, a voté jeudi 18 juillet en faveur de la continuation de l'occupation du siège et de la transmission du programme.<br />
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Entre temps, l'ainsi appelée "Télévision grecque publique", qui a été lancée la semaine dernière par le gouvernement, diffuse aussi sur les fréquences digitales de la chaîne, avec le soutien du fournisseur de réseau digital DIGEA. Il reste toujours pas clair si la chaîne possède une entité légale et même si elle a une licence pour diffuser. Les artistes qui avaient annoncé ne pas permettre à n'importe quelle nouvelle chaîne d'utiliser leur travail, continuent à <a href="http://manthoulis.wordpress.com/2013/07/16/%CE%BD%CE%B1-%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%B1%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B1%CE%BB%CE%B5%CE%AF-%CE%B7-%CF%80%CF%81%CE%BF%CE%B2%CE%BF%CE%BB%CE%AE-%CF%84%CF%89%CE%BD-%CE%B1%CE%BA%CF%85%CE%B2%CE%AD%CF%81%CE%BD%CE%B7%CF%84%CF%89/">se plaindre</a> que la chaîne le fait quand même. Aussi, dans au moins un cas, une <a href="http://left.gr/news/antidrasi-apo-diktyo-mesogeios-sos-gia-ti-metadosi-minymatos-toy-apo-tin-edt">ONG</a> a nié avoir soumis à la chaîne un spot publicitaire de son travail.<br />
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Le parlement a réjeté, jeudi 18 juillet, une <a href="http://www.enet.gr/?i=news-room.el&id=375407">proposition de SYRIZA</a> pour établir un commité d'investigation sur la fermeture de ERT. Il faudra aussi noter que DIMAR, qui s'est opposée à la fermeture, a voté contre cette proposition, tandis que l'Aube Dorée, qui a soutenu la fermeture, a été absente lors de la procédure du vote. <br />
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Les syndicats des médias privés ont fait grève vendredi, pour protester une loi votée au Parlement qui règle la création et le fonctionnement de la nouvelle télévision publique, qui selon le Ministre compétent serait libre d'intervention politique. Les 155 députés du gouvernement ont soutenu cette législation, malgé les soucis exprimés par plusieurs juristes, mais ils sont les seuls à avoir soutenu la loi. <br />
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Le Président de SYRIZA, Alexis Tsipras, a accusé le gouvernement d'un acte inconstitutionnel et non démocratique; il a aussi dit que le noyau dur du gouvernement de Samaras méprise la démocratie. Il a aussi exprimé des doutes si Pantelis Kapsis, le secrétaire d'Etat responsable pour la nouvelle télévision publique et ex directeur de la Maison de Presse privée “Lambrakis”, à qui appartient 22% de la télévision privée Mega, sera la personne adéquate pour la position du chef de la nouvelle télévision publique. <br />
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<b> 4. L'impacte de l'austérité à la démographie</b> <br />
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L'austérité a provoqué une diminution dramatique au taux de naissances et une augmentation rapide au taux de morts en Grèce, et est directement liée à l'augmentation du chômage, comme le montre une recherche de l'Ecole Nationale de la Santé Publique (ESDY).<br />
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La recherche, dont les résultats ont été publiés au journal <a href="http://www.enetenglish.gr/?i=news.en.article&id=1275&utm_source=EnetEnglish+general&utm_campaign=a9a174b6e0-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_2d5bc1ed1e-a9a174b6e0-26966345">Eleftherotypia</a>, révèlent que entre 2009 et 2011, le taux de naissances a chuté constamment de 10,45 sur 1000 habitants à 9,39 sur 1000, ce qui consiste une chute de 10,13%. De même, entre 2008 et 2011, le taux de morts a fait une augmentation de 21,5%, en montant de 3,31 sur 1000 à 4,01. <br />
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Le rapport note que ces tendances coincident avec la chute dramatique du PIB entre 2009 et 2011, une chute de 14,82%, et avec l'augmentation du chômage, surtout parmi les femmes, de 11,7% à 24,5% en 2011.</div>
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Les chercheurs notent aussi que la recession économique est souvent liée à des conséquences pareilles à la démographie. Le journal Eleftherotypia souligne qu'une tendance pareille est aussi observée au Portugal, où le taux de naissances a diminué de 14% depuis 2008.<br />
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<b> 5. Les bouffoneries de l 'Aube Dorée au Parlement</b> <br />
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Le Parlement grec est devenu jeudi, le théâtre de scènes sans précédent, quand l'Aube Dorée a vulgairement insulté et menacé les députés de SYRIZA, en pleine session, en les provoquant à une bagarre à l'extérieur de la salle, ce qui a rendu necessaire l'intervention des guardiens du Parlement, puisque la situation s'aprêtait à déraper.<br />
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Selon la version anglaise du journal <a href="http://ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_18/07/2013_510166">Kathimerini</a>, c'est l'intention de l'Aube Dorée néonazi pour organiser un festival à Kalamata le 3 et 4 août, qui a été la cause du comportement vulgaire de ses députés contre ceux de SYRIZA, un comportement accompagné de références à la guerre civile sanglante.<br />
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La scène a éclaté, suite à l'allusion faite par un député de SYRIZA qui a denoncé que les députés de l'Aube Dorée utilisent les lignes téléphoniques du Parlement pour menacer des antifascistes à Kalamata. Les députés neonazi ont réagi en appelant les membres de SYRIZA "assassins cagoulés" et en criant des slogans liés à des batailles de la guerre civile, que les communistes avaient perdues. L'invitation des députés de l'Aube Dorée à une bagarre en dehors du bâtiment a provoqué l'intervention du guardien du Parlement.<br />
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Le porte-parole du gouvernement, Simos Kedikoglou, a condamné l'incident, ce qui apparemment a été la seule réaction du gouvernement.<br />
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<b>Nelle notizie internazionali de #rbnews questa settimana:</b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>Dopo due anni e mezzo di carcere e 38 giorni di sciopero della fame, Kostas Sakkas è stato rilasciato su decisione del Consiglio d'Appello</li>
<li>Gli arresti arbitari dei residenti di Skuriés, provocano reazioni a Calcidia.</li>
<li>Tra le proteste generali iniziano le trasmissioni della nuova televisione pubblica greca mentre allo stesso tempo, gli ex dipendenti della ERT continuano con la pubblicazione del notiziario quotidiano.</li>
<li>Constantina Kuneva ottiene la prima vittoria in tribunale, dopo l'attacco ha sofferto nel 2008 a causa della sua attività sindacale.</li>
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<a name='more'></a><b>1. Fine dello sciopero della fame di Kostas Sakkas</b><br /><br />La Corte d'Appello ha deciso Giovedi che Kostas Sakkas potrebbe essere liberato , su cauzione, dopo 951 giorni di detenzione senza processo e 8 giorni di sciopero della fame.<br /><br />Sakkas è stato arrestato il 4 dicembre 2010 ed è stato trattenuto in stato di detenzione preventiva con l'accusa di possesso illegale di armi da fuoco e partecipazione ad un gruppo terroristico. Il tempo della sua detenzione era stato esteso da 12 mesi a 18, poi due anni e mezzo e, infine, per un totale di tre anni oltre i limiti di legge e costituzionali per la detenzione preventiva. Il 4 giugno 2013, ha iniziato uno sciopero della fame per protestare contro la recente estensione della sua custodia per sei mesi.<br /><br />La pressione dell'opinione pubblica ha svolto un ruolo importante nel garantire il rilascio di Sakkas. La campagna è stata intrapresa da sindacati, associazioni di avvocati ed altre organizzazioni della società civile chiedono il suo rilascio questa settimana. Tali organizzazioni comprendono Amnesty Internationale la ONG Medici del Mondo, che ha riferito che le guardie carceraria non hanno autorizzato la visita in ospedale a Sakkas. Molti gli eventi a sostegno, la scorsa settimana sui social network, ed un gruppo di personalità greche, tra cui giornalisti, accademici, artisti e diversi ex prigionieri politici dell'epoca dei Colonnelli, hanno annunciato Mercoledì che si terrà uno sciopero della fame in solidarietà con SAKKAS nel caso in cui il Consiglio Superiore della Magistratura non accordasse il rilascio . Nikos Juntís, europarlamentare di Syriza, ha anche presentato una interrogazione alla Commissione europea.<br /><br />Diverse proteste si sono svolte in tutto il paese la scorsa settimana, per chiedere la liberazione dell'anarchico. Mercoledì scorso, un piccolo presidio vicino all'Acropoli, al quale hanno dato vita degli attivisti, al fine di informare i turisti in merito al caso di Sakkas, è stato brutalmente aggredito dalla polizia. Video catturati dai tweeter @ kinimatini e @ _giant_ mostrano poliziotti in moto che circolano tra la massa di manifestanti in una strada pedonale, proprio dove il Pnyx, culla dell'a antica democrazia, aggrediscono i manifestanti. 13 persone sono state fermate, di cui 3 sono state successivamente arrestati. Il processo è stato aggiornato al 18 agosto.<br /><br />La decisione del Consiglio dei Magistrati di Appello che Giovedi è stata accolta con sollievo da parte del pubblico impegnato nella campagna per la liberazione di Sakkas, ma senza tralasciare le dure critiche per le rigide condizioni che sono state imposte, come ad esempio il divieto di lasciare il paese, l'obbligo settimanale di firma, ogni Lunedi, presso la stazione di polizia nella zona, una cauzione di 30.000 euro, il divieto di incontrare o di comunicare con i suoi co-imputati, la confisca del suo passaporto, residenza obbligatoria nella casa dei suoi genitori ed una limitazione al movimento, ristretto alla prefettura dell'Attica. È nato un movimento per raccogliere fondi per la cauzione di Sakkas. Nella notte di Giovedi scorso, Sakkas è stato trasferiti nell'area civile del Nikea General Hospital e, secondo testimoni, ha ripreso a mangiare cibo per la prima volta in 38 giorni. Non è ancora chiaro quali saranno le conseguenze fisiche che potrà subire Sakkas, a lungo termine, a causa del suo sciopero della fame.<br /><br /><b>2. Nuove tensioni in Skuriés</b><br /><br />Le tensioni sono scoppiate nuovamente nel nord-est della Calcidia questa settimana, quando il pubblico ministero e il giudice che tratta il procedimento relativo dell'attacco incendiario su un edificio della società Oro Greco, lo scorso 17 febbraio 2013, ha ordinato che altri due residenti del villaggio di Ierissos rimangano in custodia. Il giudizio di questo incendio doloso, riguard 20 persone, identificate come sospette, di cui due erano già in carcere.<br /><br />Secondo l'Osservatorio greco delle attività minerarie, chiamate "indizi di colpevolezza" dai due uomini che sono stati arrestati non sono supportati, e che uno di loro era sul Monte Athos nella notte del 17 febbraio, mentre le accuse contro il altro è basato su avere dieci chiamate senza risposta sul cellulare.<br /><br />La notizia che i due uomini sono stati arrestati preventivamente scontri provocati davanti al tribunale dei Polygyros capitali regionali, dove la polizia ha sparato gas lacrimogeni per disperdere la folla. Il figlio di 15 anni di uno dei due arrestati è stato arrestato per aver aggredito la polizia alla notizia della prigionia di suo padre, mentre suo nonno è stato picchiato dalla polizia antisommossa. Più tardi altri scontri sono avvenuti intorno al villaggio di Megali Panaya dove lacrimogeni sparati dalla polizia insieme al fuoco a diversi alberi della foresta che circonda il villaggio. Un residente di 73 anni, che è stato gravemente ferito durante gli scontri, è stato arrestato dalla polizia.<br /><br />La situazione nel nord est della Calcidica è stata esplosiva per oltre un anno a causa di un conflitto tra residenti locali e la società di estrazione dell'oro greco e della sua controllante, canadese, la Eldorado Gold. Le società minerarie vogliono sviluppare una miniera di oro e rame su larga scala nella zona, in particolare nella foresta di Skuriés , un'area di eccezionale biodiversità e di bellezze naturali. Per fare questo, hanno il sostegno del governo e dei politici greci, che ritengono tali investimenti, la solzuzione per far uscire il paese dalla crisi. Residenti locali e organizzazioni scientifiche indipendenti si oppongono ai piani minerari, sostenendo che causerà enormi ed irreparabili danni per l'ambiente e per l'economia locale, indicando che il trasferimento dei diritti di estrazione di oro greco è un scandalo politico e finanziario.<br /><br /><b>3. Continua il blackout di ERT</b><br /><br />L'emittente televisiva pubblica greca, ERT, continua a trasmettere su internet ed ora anche in Grecia su frequenze analogiche, un mese dopo che il governo ha ordinato la chiusura. Queste trasmissioni clandestine sono resi possibili grazie al sostegno della European Broadcasting Union, che trasmette il segnale dal ERT attraverso il televisore. Il governo, tuttavia, è attivo per ridurre ulteriormente le trasmisioni. L'8 luglio, polizia e tecnici, hanno spento i trasmettitori sull'isola di Cefalonia, mentre azioni simili sono stati impedite nelle città di Patrasso e di Chania dall'assembramento di gruppi di cittadini che proteggevano i trasmettitori.<br /><br />Martedì sera è emerso che il governo aveva cominciato a trasmettere in digitale i programmi di ERT dal Mercoledì scorso, con l'aiuto delprovider DIGEA, un consorzio di sei grandi televisione private greche. In realtà, Mercoledì mattina, frequenze digitali ERT hanno trasmesso con il logo di "TV pubblica greca", in onda dagli studi di Jristos y Ninos Elmatzoglu. La società è in parte di proprietà di Pegasus, che detiene il canale Mega , il più grande canale privato in Grecia, e in parte di proprietà di Lambrakis del Gruppo Giornalistico, altro importante polo mediatico, privato in Grecia. Gli studi di registrazione della tv pubblica sono stati utilizzati per anni da parte del gruppo Mega. Inoltre, il vice ministro responsabile della emittente pubblica, Pantelis Kapsisper i suoi trascorsi da giornalista, ha stretti legami con entrambi i gruppi, tanto con Mega TV quanto con Lambrakis del Gruppo Giornalismo.<br /><br />Il paradosso di quella che viene chiamata la televisione pubblica, nonostante le trasmissioni avvengano da studi privati, di proprietà di gruppi vicini al Vice Ministro, non è passato inosservato al personale di ERT, che ha sollevato diverse questioni legali. Hanno chiesto se "la televisione pubblica greca" è stata riconosciuta dal Consiglio Nazionale della Radio e della Televisione, se si disponga di una licenza per trasmettere e come è possibile che il fornitore di servizi digitali DIGEA e la società Telecomunicazioni Greca possa trasmettere il proprio segnale senza alcuna licenza, e chi sta pagando gli stipendi dei lavoratori che operano presso il centro di trasmissione. Il governo non ha fornito alcuna risposta a queste domande.<br /><br />Un altro problema giuridico riguardante la questione delle trasmissioni da parte della "TV pubblica greca," è il fatto che un gran numero di artisti hanno annunciato, al momento della chiusura di ERT, che a nessun nuovo operatore sarebbe stato accordato il permesso di utilizzare il loro lavoro. Tuttavia, ciò non ha impedito che il nuovo canale di trasmissione, nel suo primo giorno di funzionamento, trasmettesse un film del regista Roviros Manduliss che ha già annunciato la richiesta di 20.000 € di danni allo Stato.<br /><br />Nel frattempo, i tre principali sindacati dei giornalisti hanno protestato, Giovedi contro la situazione della "televisione pubblica greca", mentre la Federazione Panellenica dei Giornalisti ha annunciato che avrebbe partecipato allo sciopero ad oltranza se la tv pubblica greca non avesse interrotto le trasmissioni.<br /><br /><b>4. Giustizia per Konstantina Kuneva</b><br /><br />Un tribunale del Pireo questa settimana ha ordinato all'azienda sanitaria OIKOMET di pagare 250.000 € di danni a Konstantina Kuneva, riconoscendo la responsabilità della società durante l'aggressione nel dicembre 2008.<br /><br />Konstantina Kuneva, una cittadina bulgara, si era trasferìta in Grecia nel 2001. E 'stata Segretaria Generale del sindacato di Attica ed ha ricevuto numerose minacce per le sue attività sindacali. Nel tardo pomeriggio del 22 dicembre 2008, mentre al ritorno dal lavoro, è stata aggredita da due uomini che hanno versato dell'acido su di lei e la costrinse a bere un po 'troppo acido. La decisione del tribunale ha riconosciuto l'aggressione come un incidente sul lavoro ed individuato la responsabilità parziale in capo al suo datore di lavoro, che aveva rifiutato le richieste di cambio di turno a causa delle minacce ricevute.<br /><br />L'avvocato di Kouneva ha detto che il risarcimento del danno servirà come aiuto per pagare le cure mediche a Parigi, dove una serie di interventi chirurgici sono stati necessari per ripristinare la sua salute. Non è chiaro se OIKOMET intende impugnare la decisione del tribunale. Inoltre, si segnala che cinque anni dopo l'assalto, non sono stati ancora identificati i responsabili.</div>
Кроткаяhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00526347887822752050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2484141008782526310.post-58531924118187911292013-07-16T19:46:00.000+03:002013-07-17T06:55:43.226+03:00Greek Health Minister says he will not repeal health provision that led to forced HIV tests, says he welcomes proposals<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="en-US">The
debate over a controversial health provision, which led to forced HIV
tests on vulnerable social groups in Athens in 2012 continued this
week in the Greek Parliament. </span>
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<span lang="en-US">Health
Provision 39a which was reinstated last week by newly-appointed
Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis, one month after its repeal by
former Deputy Minister Foteini Skopouli, has caused a fierce reaction
from Greek and international human rights organizations, medical
groups and prominent individuals in HIV/AIDS policy; among them
</span><span lang="en-US"><a href="http://www.publicserviceeurope.com/article/3756/forced-hiv-testing-in-greece-violates-human-rights" target="_blank">Public Service Europe</a>,</span><span lang="en-US">
</span><a href="http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/07/03/greece-repeal-abusive-health-regulation" target="_blank"><span lang="en-US">Human Rights Watch</span></a><span lang="en-US"> and most recently The Lancet medical journal, which accused the
Greek leadership of “repeating past mistakes” in an </span><a href="http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2813%2961546-9/fulltext?rss=yes" target="_blank"><span lang="en-US">editorial</span></a><span lang="en-US">.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">The
provision was fist voted in April 2012 by former Health Minister
Andreas Loverdos and led to a massive police operation a month later
in the Greek capital when reportedly hundreds of women were rounded
up and underwent blood tests in police stations and without their
consent. About 30 among them tested HIV positive, most intravenous
drug users and homeless, and were subsequently held in prison for
months on felony and prostitution charges. The case caused
international uproar when the women’s mug-shots, names and HIV
status were published on television.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">In
a Parliamentary question to Minister Georgiadis on Friday July 12,
SYRIZA opposition party MP Vassiliki Katrivanou asked for a new
repeal of the provision. </span>
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<span lang="en-US">On
the same day, four Greek NGOs (Positive Voice, Praksis, Act Up Hellas
and Center for Lsife) said in a joined </span><a href="http://positivevoicegr.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/39_12.html" target="_blank"><span lang="en-US">announcement</span></a><span lang="en-US"> that they
requested that a health committee assigned by Georgiadis with
negotiating changes to the provision provide them with documentation
that substantiates the urgency of the provision’s recommendations
to protect public health, before they can return to the negotiations.
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entire exchange between Katrivanou and Georgiadis follows translated
from Greek.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">Radiobubble’s
recent post on the reinstatement can be reads </span><span lang="en-US"><a href="http://international.radiobubble.gr/2013/07/reinstatement-of-controversial-health.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</span><span lang="en-US"> </span></div>
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<span lang="en-US"><b>Vassiliki
Katrivanou</b></span><span lang="en-US">: Minister, you have
reinstated the illegal and unconstitutional decree “39a/2012,
arrangements relating to limiting the spread of infectious diseases,”
known as “the Loverdos health decree.” The Government proceeded
into a serious error once more, which offends the rule of law,
damages public health and vilifies the country internationally.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">You
have reinstated a catastrophic decree but you admit that there is a
problem with its implementation and have committed to reexamining it.
That’s not serious in our opinion and we ask for its repeal.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">We
remind you that what the decree does is, in combination with article
59 of law 4075/2012, it foresees essentially that a person can be
detained because of [one’s] health or living conditions, can
undergo medical tests by force and without [one’s] consent, outside
of medical ethics, outside of health-care structures, as we saw in
the past inside police stations with the HIV positive women, without
any purpose of therapy or prevention, which is what we should have in
mind, on the contrary with the purpose of cheap pre-election
impression.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">This
health decree targets and stigmatizes the most vulnerable groups,
which you say you want to be in contact with, meaning immigrants,
those seeking asylum, the poor, drug users and sex workers. In the
context of its implementation, during the pre-election period in
2012, we had illegal arrests, detentions and the scandal with the
public exposure of HIV-positive persons, especially women. </span>
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<div class="western" lang="el-GR" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="en-US">These
actions which were called by the National Commission for Human Rights
[EEDA] unworthy of a democratic State, damaged public health and were
condemned internationally by UNAIDS, Amnesty International and Human
Rights Watch. We had condemnation in the European Parliament. We also
had a stance against the decree by EEDA the Greek Ombudsman and the
Athens Medical Association, all rehabilitation networks and all the
organizations of the Ministry of Health.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">What
is happening with this decree is the opposite of what we want. There
is a very serious blow against public health, because essentially the
relationships of trust of the population are broken but especially
those of vulnerable groups to which it is aimed at through public
health services. So trust that has been built for many years, with
hard work, with [street] work, with trust, is diluted with a decree,
because nobody wants to get tested when the next step is [one’s]
arrest, detention and public exposure. </span>
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<span lang="en-US">It
is shameful to have such a decree –and you know it– as the
President of the International AIDS Society condemned the
reinstatement of the decree a week ago and called on the Greek
government to reexamine its stance. She pointed out that HIV
diagnoses in our country have seen a rise because of the crisis and
that on one hand the mandatory testing for HIV and, on the other, the
detentions, can only lead to a rise in the AIDS epidemic in our
country. […] </span>
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<span lang="en-US">What
we ask for is meaningful policy for public health, which is built on
trust with people and the support of structures and we ask for the
repeal of the decree. Thank you.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US"><b>Spyridon</b></span><span lang="en-US">-</span><span lang="en-US"><b>Adonis
Georgiadis (Minister of Health</b></span><span lang="en-US">): Thank
you, Mr President. Thank you to my colleague for the question so that
some misunderstandings can be clarified, which have caused big
discussion.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">First
of all, we respect the rights of all people. All people, however; not
only drug users and female sex workers have rights; everyone has
rights. The existence of the health decree is necessary in order to
determine the rules based on which everyone’s rights will be
respected: the rights of both those vulnerable social groups we want
to protect primarily because they are [vulnerable] and the rights of
the rest of the population to feel safe and to know that public
health is being protected.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">What
happened in this particular case? The previous political leadership
and specifically Mr Loverdos [former Minister of Health], as is
known, proceeded to issue the relevant health decree; I have said
this publicly, that it led –not that this was the intention of the
political leadership of the then ministry but in its implementation–
to some exaggerations such as the publication for example of the
personal data of some of the sex workers.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">After
that, when the political leadership of the Ministry changed and
specifically Mrs Skopouli [former deputy Minster of Health] adopted
these reactions you referred to fully and proceeded to the following
move: she did not replace the old health decree with a new health
decree. So she didn’t say “we disagree with this decree on number
one, two, three, four, five and believe that the correct health
decree is number seven, eight, nine.” But what did she do
[instead]? She repealed the previous health decree, causing a legal
void. So we didn’t have any health decrees. If I understand well,
that is the proposal of SYRIZA, to go to a situation where there is
no health decree. I owe it to you then, to tell you from the start,
that this will not happen under my leadership. We will have a health
decree.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">Therefore,
the first move is to repeal the decision of Mrs Skopouli which, among
other things, was illegal, because the law specifically foresaw that
the health decree is to be replaced only with a new one and cannot be
repealed. However, that was one part of our initiative. On the same
day that we repealed the health decree, we started a dialogue with
all the groups. </span>
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<span lang="en-US">Already
there is a relevant committee under the leadership of Mrs Zeta Makri,
the Deputy Minister, as well as the Secretary General [for Public
Health] Mrs Christina Papanikolaou. Already there is a discussion on
how we can create a new health decree. The desire of the leadership
of the Ministry is to see, in this health decree, how we can respect
the rights of all people, while simultaneously respecting the need to
have in the population a sense of security and not a sense of void.
That is our intention.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">The
committee has convened, as I said, twice. It is going to convene
again. I have ordered the committee, so that in two weeks from today
–three at the most,– that we be in a position to present a new
health decree. In this effort of having a dialogue, we are addressing
a letter to all parties to give their proposals. There has been a
decision to send a letter, I don’t know if it has already been
sent, perhaps it was sent today. You are very welcome to submit a
proposal on how you want this health decree to be. But please, do not
tell me not to have a health decree at all. As far as why not, I will
explain that in my reply so there is no further delay. Thank you, Mr
President.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">[…]</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US"><b>Katrivanou</b></span><span lang="en-US">:
I am very happy that you are in favor of public health for everyone
because so are we. We are not only in favor of the rights of
vulnerable groups, which of course we are, but we say that this
decree breaks the bonds of trust of everyone but especially those of
vulnerable groups, when what will follow is arrest, mandatory tests
and public exposure. What will happen is that these people will go
into hiding, they will not be going to get tested, there will be no
benefit to public health. On the contrary. </span>
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<span lang="en-US">Mrs
Skopouli, as you say, repealed it but repealed it after international
condemnation but also condemnation from national organizations which
called it illegal and unconstitutional. And why was that? As the
Ombudsman says, it lacks legal basis, first of all because it was
issued and exceeded legislative authority since the laws it refers to
relate to sanitary cleanliness of shops, to licenses and the approval
of environmental conditions, to water supply and sewage, sanitation
and cleanliness of hotels and shops and the hygiene of employees. It
does not refer to controls of people or the diagnosis of illnesses.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">Secondly,
both the Ombudsman and the World [Health] Organization against HIV
say that mandatory measures which relate to specific population
groups involve discrimination and the danger of stigmatization and
are not effective because, as we have said, in this way, these
persons will avoid getting tested and will go into hiding. And as we
know, in order for the AIDS virus to not be transmitted for example,
what must be done is for persons to come to you, to have bonds of
trust and to go into therapy. Only when they receive therapy, only
then the AIDS virus doesn’t get transmitted. This is [one’s]
biggest weapon.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">Also,
not only that happened, but we had further restrictions. Lately for
example, with the Government’s “Thetis” operation. We have had
mass arrests of addicted people, massively in Amygdaleza [migrant
detention camp.] No relation to therapy or prevention, only the
creation of man-eating impressions. And secondly, last week we had
policemen on stand-by outside hospitals, which resulted in the
arrests of two people who are in programs and communities of KETHEA
[Therapy Center for Dependent Individuals] against a law that has
been voted in Parliament for drugs, and which foresees favorable
standards of protection for people who are in rehabilitation
programs.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">So
we are breaking the law that we have voted and instead of
strengthening the law and structures, we are arresting and ruining
programs which have been made inside KETHEA communities. Why would
these people then go and get tested to see whether they have HIV,
when police officers are outside waiting to arrest them?</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">As
for the so-called legal void, we repeat that at this moment there is
no urgent epidemiological situation which we must address, which
would justify restrictions in the autonomy of these persons. All
these measures in the health system which relate to restrictions in
the autonomy of persons are foreseen solely under special
circumstances, meaning during epidemics or pandemics; as determined
however, according to international standards –not whatever comes
to our head– and under the principle of proportionality.</span></div>
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<div class="western" lang="el-GR" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="en-US">At
this time, the only reference to the rise of infectious diseases
relates to HIV infections in </span>
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<div class="western" lang="el-GR" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="en-US">intravenous
drug users. It is obvious that beyond this decree, which is illegal
and unconstitutional, instead of the Government promoting
rehabilitation and prevention –which is what would indeed help–
what it does is push the problem away from view with policing.</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="el-GR" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="en-US">What
we are asking is for a meaningful intervention in public health,
which will include prevention education, support of structures,
relationships of trust with everyone and especially with vulnerable
groups, respect for medical confidentiality, basically public health
for the citizens instead of against them.</span></div>
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<div class="western" lang="el-GR" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="en-US">We
want a social state that will stand next to the citizen, next to all
of us. We want to have a general view of what it means to have public
health instead of racist decrees and policing. This is why we want
its repeal. Thank you for the Committee you are opening up to all
parties and for inviting us. Thank you very much.</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<div class="western" lang="el-GR" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="en-US"><b>Georgiadis</b></span><span lang="en-US">:
I will take things from the beginning, because I am a practical man. </span>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<div class="western" lang="el-GR" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="en-US">You
write this in your question as well and we know from the
introduction, you said it now too in your reply and I must answer to
you. Listen to how something is judged to be unconstitutional or not.
If you believe so, you go to the Administrative Court of First
Instance and you ask that the relevant decree be remedied. If a court
comes and says that it is unconstitutional, we will automatically
repeal it. For the time being, the claim that it is unconstitutional
is all yours.</span></div>
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<div class="western" lang="el-GR" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="en-US"><b>Katrivanou</b></span><span lang="en-US">:
Ours? And of all international groups.</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<div class="western" lang="el-GR" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="en-US"><b>Georgiadis</b></span><span lang="en-US">:
International groups have no authority to judge issues of
unconstitutionality in our country. Because if we were to take under
consideration international organizations, whose opinions you want us
to adopt so much, I will bring to you two hundred international
groups which say that we should implement the memorandum, which you
don’t want us to implement, which the IMF, World Bank, European
Central Bank tell us to do the opposite of what SYRIZA says.</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="el-GR" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="en-US">What
should we do now? Discuss which international group we like and which
we don’t?</span></div>
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<div class="western" lang="el-GR" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="en-US"><b>Katrivanou</b></span><span lang="en-US">:
The Ombudsman…</span></div>
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<div class="western" lang="el-GR" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="en-US"><b>Georgiadis</b></span><span lang="en-US">:
The Ombudsman doesn’t govern this country. The Government governs
and the Parliament. We return to the previous issue. First of all, to
speak calmly and logically, like two rational people, your claims of
unconstitutionality are your claims. You have the right to make them,
fortunately we have a democracy and you can express them; it doesn’t
meant though that just because you makes these claims that they are
true.</span></div>
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<div class="western" lang="el-GR" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="en-US">I
told you that the process of unconstitutionality is judged by the
courts, not the Ombudsman. We are interested in its opinion, we
respect it, but no more.</span></div>
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<div class="western" lang="el-GR" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="en-US">Secondly,
you say that at SYRIZA you are interested in the entire population. I
didn’t hear in either your introduction or your reply a proposal
for the rest of the population. I heard your intense defense of
vulnerable groups and kudos to you.</span><br />
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<div class="western" lang="el-GR" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="en-US">But
I will tell you that we are sensitive as well. Yesterday with Mrs
Makri and Mr Bezas we demanded, we asked, we begged the State General
Accounting Office an urgent reinforcement so we can immunize poor
children, who need it greatly, in order to protect public health.</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<div class="western" lang="el-GR" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="en-US">Those
who think that I want a confrontation with Mrs Skopouli, I would
remind them that the first decision I made when I [first] went to the
Ministry was in accepting [the decree’s] examination and on making
a announcement on the issue of drug users and on how to give them
syringes and to help them not pose a threat to public health.</span></div>
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<div class="western" lang="el-GR" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="en-US">I
have no personal issues with anyone. Of course we want to help
vulnerable groups. And unfortunately, with sadness, I didn’t hear
either in your introduction or reply any proposals for the rest of
the population.</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<div class="western" lang="el-GR" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="en-US"><b>Katrivanou</b></span><span lang="en-US">:
I told you.</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="western" lang="el-GR" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="en-US"><b>Georgiadis</b></span><span lang="en-US">:
No you didn’t tell me. You didn’t say anything. You gave one
hundred ideas on vulnerable groups and none about the rest. </span>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<div class="western" lang="el-GR" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="en-US">Let’s
take it from the beginning. I told you earlier and perhaps that is
where our basic disagreement lies but what can we do; we disagree.
All people have rights, not just vulnerable groups! We look at
vulnerable groups primarily because they are vulnerable and we want
to help them. But that doesn’t mean that because we prioritize them
that we will tell everybody else to “go take a hike.” What can we
do about that?</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<div class="western" lang="el-GR" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="en-US">So
I tell you again: come to the table and bring to us –that is what I
ask of you– your proposal on how you want it to be, how you dream
the health decree to be. If your proposal is a void, that you don’t
want there to be one, I tell you that such a proposal will not be
accepted because we will make one. </span>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<div class="western" lang="el-GR" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="en-US">If
you want to, in the one that we are going to make, for SYRIZA to be a
part of it and to explain which parts we can adopt so it can be more
correct, then I will gladly, I have no ideological issue, come and
tell us. But I tell you again, we will not stand idle and we will not
give the population of the country the impression that we are leaving
them unprotected. The sense of security which we must give all
citizens in relation to public health is our basic priority.</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="western" lang="el-GR" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="en-US">We
don’t need to fight because I tell you that in essence we don’t
disagree. I told you from the beginning that I accept that this
decree in its implementation created many problems. But if I believed
it was ideal, I wouldn’t decide on the same day for there to be a
Committee to change it. It would be enough for me as it is.</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="western" lang="el-GR" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="en-US">I
told you that I did two things simultaneously: firstly, I repealed
its repeal by Mrs Skopouli, which was a mistake what she did, and
secondly, we begin a discussion to create a new one.</span><span lang="en-US"> Do
you want to help? You are welcome to. You don’t want to? What can I
tell you?</span>
</div>
<div class="western" lang="el-GR" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="en-US">Thank
you very much.</span></div>
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En las noticias de #rbnews international de esta semana:</div>
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<li>Después de dos años y medio de prisión y 38 días de huelga de hambre, Kostas Sakkás ha sido liberado por decisión del Consejo de Apelaciones</li>
<li>Las detenciones de residentes y la arbitrariedad policial en Skuriés, Calcídica, provocan reacciones entre los residentes locales</li>
<li>Bajo protesta general la nueva televisión pública griega comienza a emitir, mientras que al mismo tiempo, los antiguos empleados de la ERT siguen emitiendo un programa diario</li>
<li>Constantina Kuneva logra una primera victoria judicial por el atentado que sufrió en 2008 debido a su acción sindical</li>
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<b>1. La liberación del huelguista de hambre Kostas Sakkás</b></div>
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El Consejo de la Magistratura de Apelaciones decidió el jueves que Kostas Sakkás podría ser liberado condicionalmente después de 951 días de detención sin juicio y 38 días de huelga de hambre.</div>
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Sakkás había sido detenido el 4 de diciembre de 2010 y había sido encarcelado preventivamente desde entonces, por acusaciones de posesión ilegal de armas de fuego y participación en un grupo terrorista. El tiempo de su detención preventiva se había ampliado de 12 meses a 18, luego a dos años y medio y, finalmente, a un total de tres años, más allá de los límites legales y constitucionales para la detención preventiva. El 4 junio de 2013, empezó una huelga de hambre para protestar por la entonces reciente extensión de su detención preventiva por 6 meses.</div>
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La presión pública ha desempeñado un papel nada despreciable a la hora de asegurar la liberación de Sakkas. Se emprendió una campaña por parte de los sindicatos, colegios de abogados y otras organizaciones de la sociedad civil esta semana exigiendo su liberación. Entre estas organizaciones se encuentra la ONG Medicos del Mundo, que informó que los policías vigilantes no les permitieron ir a visitar Sakkás en el hospital, así como Amnistía Internacional. También se organizaron varios actos de apoyo durante la semana pasada por las redes sociales, y un grupo de personalidades griegas, entre ellas periodistas, académicos, artistas y varios ex presos políticos de la Junta, anunciaron el miércoles que iban a lanzar una huelga de hambre en solidaridad con Sakkás en caso de que el Consejo de la Magistratura de Apelaciones no tomara una decisión para su liberación el jueves. El eurodiputado de SYRIZA, Nikos Juntís, también presentó una pregunta a la Comisión Europea sobre el tema el martes.</div>
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Varias protestas públicas también se llevaron a cabo en todo el país durante la semana pasada para exigir la liberación de Kostas Sakkás. El miércoles, una pequeña marcha cerca de la Acrópolis con el objetivo de informar a los turistas sobre el caso de Sakkás, fue brutalmente agredida por la policía. Videos captados por los tuiteros @kinimatini y @ _giant_ muestran policías circulando en motocicletas entre la masa de manifestantes en una calle peatonal justo donde se encuentra la Pnyx, la cuna de la democracia antigua, y luego asaltando el grupo de manifestantes y golpeando salvajemente a al menos uno de los manifestantes que había quedado tendido en el suelo. 13 personas fueron detenidas, de las cuales 3 fueron posteriormente arrestadas. El juicio se aplazó hasta el 18 de agosto.</div>
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La decisión del Consejo de la Magistratura de Apelaciones del jueves fue recibida con alivio por parte del público que estaba haciendo campaña por la liberación de Sakkas, pero también con duras críticas por las estrictas condiciones que se le han impuesto, tales como la prohibición de salir del país, comparecencia obligatoria todos los lunes en la comisaría de la zona, una fianza de 30.000 euros, la prohibición de reunión o comunicación con sus compañeros acusados, la confiscación de su pasaporte, la residencia obligatoria en la casa de sus padres y una limitación en su movimiento restringido a la prefectura de Áttica. Ya se ha creado un movimiento para recaudar fondos para la fianza de Sakkas. Se informó el jueves por la noche que Sakkás había sido trasladado a la zona civil del Hospital General de Níkea y que estaba comiendo alimentos por primera vez en 38 días. No está claro todavía cuales serán consecuencias que pueda sufrir Sakkás a largo plazo debido a su huelga de hambre.</div>
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Fuentes</div>
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<a href="http://www.mdmgreece.gr/%CE%94%CE%B5%CE%BB%CF%84%CE%AF%CE%B1-%CE%A4%CF%8D%CF%80%CE%BF%CF%85/%CE%94%CE%B5%CE%BB%CF%84%CE%AF%CE%BF-%CE%A4%CF%8D%CF%80%CE%BF%CF%85-%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%B1%CF%86%CE%BF%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%AC-%CE%BC%CE%B5-%CF%84%CE%BF%CE%BD-%CE%B1%CF%80%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%B3%CF%8C-%CF%80%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE%BD%CE%B1%CF%82-%CE%A3%CE%B1%CE%BA%CE%BA%CE%AC-%CE%9A%CF%8E%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B1">http://www.mdmgreece.gr/%CE%94%CE%B5%CE%BB%CF%84%CE%AF%CE%B1-%CE%A4%CF%8D%CF%80%CE%BF%CF%85/%CE%94%CE%B5%CE%BB%CF%84%CE%AF%CE%BF-%CE%A4%CF%8D%CF%80%CE%BF%CF%85-%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%B1%CF%86%CE%BF%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%AC-%CE%BC%CE%B5-%CF%84%CE%BF%CE%BD-%CE%B1%CF%80%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%B3%CF%8C-%CF%80%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE%BD%CE%B1%CF%82-%CE%A3%CE%B1%CE%BA%CE%BA%CE%AC-%CE%9A%CF%8E%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B1</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.amnesty.org.gr/%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%B7%CF%83%CF%85%CF%87%CE%AF%CE%B1-%CE%B3%CE%B9%CE%B1-%CF%84%CE%B7-%CF%83%CF%85%CE%BD%CE%B5%CF%87%CE%B9%CE%B6%CF%8C%CE%BC%CE%B5%CE%BD%CE%B7-%CF%80%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%83%CF%89%CF%81%CE%B9">http://www.amnesty.org.gr/%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%B7%CF%83%CF%85%CF%87%CE%AF%CE%B1-%CE%B3%CE%B9%CE%B1-%CF%84%CE%B7-%CF%83%CF%85%CE%BD%CE%B5%CF%87%CE%B9%CE%B6%CF%8C%CE%BC%CE%B5%CE%BD%CE%B7-%CF%80%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%83%CF%89%CF%81%CE%B9</a> </div>
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<a href="http://news.radiobubble.gr/2013/07/blog-post_10.html?spref=tw">http://news.radiobubble.gr/2013/07/blog-post_10.html?spref=tw</a> </div>
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<a href="http://www.enet.gr/?i=news.el.article&id=373765">http://www.enet.gr/?i=news.el.article&id=373765</a></div>
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<a href="http://omniatv.com/blog/3167">http://omniatv.com/blog/3167</a></div>
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<b>2. Nuevas tensiones en Skuriés </b></div>
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Las tensiones estallaron otra vez en el noreste de Calcídica esta semana, cuando el fiscal y el juez de instrucción encargados del caso del atentado incendiario contra un edificio de Oro Griego el 17 de febrero 2013, ordenaron que otros dos residentes del pueblo de Ierissos permanecieran en detención preventiva. El juicio de este ataque incendiario identifica a 20 personas como presuntos autores, de los cuales dos estaban ya en detención preventiva.</div>
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Según el Observatorio Griego de Minerías, las llamadas "indicaciones de culpa" por las que los dos hombres fueron arrestados no se sustentan, ya que uno de ellos se encontraba en el Monte Athos la noche del 17 de febrero, mientras que la acusación contra el otro se basa en que tenía diez llamadas sin contestar en su teléfono móvil.</div>
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La noticia de que los dos hombres fueron detenidos de manera preventiva provocó enfrentamientos frente al tribunal de la capital regional, Polygyros, donde la policía lanzó gases lacrimógenos para dispersar a la multitud. El hijo de 15 años de edad de uno de los dos detenidos fue arrestado por agredir a la policía al escuchar la noticia del encarcelamiento de su padre, mientras que su abuelo fue golpeado por los antidisturbios. Más tarde tuvieron lugar otros enfrentamientos en los alrededores del pueblo de Megali Panayá, donde botes de gas lacrimógeno disparados por la policía prendieron fuego a varios árboles del bosque que rodea el pueblo. Un residente de 73 años de edad, que resultó gravemente herido durante los enfrentamientos, fue detenido por la policía.</div>
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La situación en el noreste de Halkidiki ha sido explosiva durante más de un año debido a un conflicto entre los residentes locales y la empresa minera Oro Griego y su empresa matriz, la canadiense Eldorado Gold. Las empresas mineras quieren desarrollar una mina de oro y cobre a gran escala en la zona, en particular, en el bosque Skuriés, un área de excepcional biodiversidad y belleza natural. Para ello, cuentan con el apoyo del Gobierno griego y la clase política, que afirman que este tipo de inversión extranjera es parte de la solución para que el país salga de la crisis. Los residentes locales y las organizaciones científicas independientes se oponen a los planes mineros, diciendo que va a causar un daño masivo e irreparable sobre el medio ambiente y la economía local, y a la vez señalan que la transferencia de los derechos mineros a Oro Griego es un escándalo político y financiero.</div>
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<a href="http://antigoldgreece.wordpress.com/2013/07/10/sta-akra-i-katastasi/">http://antigoldgreece.wordpress.com/2013/07/10/sta-akra-i-katastasi/</a> </div>
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<a href="http://antigoldgreece.wordpress.com/2013/07/10/foties-stin-panagia/">http://antigoldgreece.wordpress.com/2013/07/10/foties-stin-panagia/</a> </div>
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<a href="http://antigoldgreece.wordpress.com/2013/07/11/sygkrouseis-panagia/">http://antigoldgreece.wordpress.com/2013/07/11/sygkrouseis-panagia/</a></div>
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<b>3. Continua el apagón de ERT</b></div>
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La cadena pública de Grecia, ERT, sigue emitiendo por internet y, ahora, también por las frecuencias analógicas en Grecia, un mes después de que el gobierno ordenase su cierre. Estas emisiones clandestinas son posibles gracias a la ayuda de la Unión Europea de Radiodifusión, que retransmite la señal de la ERT a través de su satélite. El gobierno, sin embargo, todavía está tomando medidas para cortar las emisiones. El 8 de julio, la policía y técnicos privados contratados, apagaron los transmisores en la isla de Cefaloniá, mientras que acciones similares fueron impedidas en las ciudades de Patras y de Canea por la concentración de grandes grupos de ciudadanos que protegían los transmisores.</div>
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El martes por la noche se supo que el gobierno había estado lanzando emisiones en las frecuencias digitales ERT desde el miércoles anterior con la ayuda de la red digital de proveedor DIGEA, un consorcio de seis grandes canales de televisión privados de Grecia. De hecho, el miércoles por la mañana, las frecuencias digitales de ERT transmitían con el logotipo de "televisión pública griega", que se emite desde estudios privados propiedad de Jristos y Ninos Elmatzoglu. La compañía Elmatzoglu es en parte propiedad de la empresa Pegasus, que posee el canal Mega, el más grande de Grecia, y en parte propiedad del Grupo de Periodismo Lambrakis, otro de los mayores grupos de comunicación privados de Grecia. Los estudios de grabación públicos han sido utilizados durante muchos años para los programas de televisión de Mega. Por otra parte, el viceministro a cargo de la cadena pública, Pantelís Kapsís, tiene estrechos vínculos con ambos grupos, Mega TV y el Grupo de Periodismo Lambrakis, por su profesión de periodista.</div>
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La paradoja de lo que se denomina la televisión pública, que se transmite desde estudios privados propiedad de los empleadores del sector privado del viceministro, no pasó desapercibida por el personal de ERT, que plantearon varias cuestiones legales. Preguntaron si "la televisión pública griega" ha sido reconocida por el Consejo Nacional de Radio y Televisión, si tiene una licencia para transmitir, cómo es posible que el proveedor de la red digital DIGEA y la Organización Griega de Telecomunicaciones puedan transmitir su señal si no tiene ninguna licencia, y quien está pagando los salarios de los trabajadores que operan la estación. El gobierno no dio ninguna respuesta a esas preguntas.</div>
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Otra cuestión jurídica relativa al asunto de las emisiones por la llamada "TV pública griega", es el hecho de que un gran número de artistas anunciaron en el momento del cierre de la ERT, que cualquier nueva emisora no tendría permiso para usar su trabajo. Esto no impidió que el nuevo canal de difusión, en su primer día de funcionamiento, transmitiera una película del director Roviros Mandulis, quien ya ha dicho que demandará 20,000 euros al Estado por daños y perjuicios.</div>
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Mientras tanto, tres grandes sindicatos de periodistas fueron a paros laborales en los medios de comunicación privados el jueves para protestar contra la puesta en marcha de la "televisión pública griega", mientras que la Federación Panhelénica de Uniones de Redactores anunció que iba a participar en una huelga de larga duración si la " televisión pública griega" sigue transmitiendo su difusión.</div>
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Un tribunal de El Pireo ordenó esta semana a la empresa de saneamiento OIKOMET que pagase 250.000 euros en daños a Konstantina Kuneva, reconociendo así la responsabilidad de la empresa en el asalto al que fue sometida en diciembre de 2008.</div>
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Konstantina Kuneva, de nacionalidad búlgara, se mudó a Grecia en 2001. Era la secretaria general de la Unión de Trabajadores de Saneamiento de Áttica y había recibido numerosas amenazas por sus actividades como sindicalista. A última hora de la tarde del 22 de diciembre de 2008, cuando regresaba del trabajo, fue atacada por dos hombres que vertieron ácido sobre ella y la obligaron a beber un poco del ácido también. La decisión del tribunal reconoce el asalto como un incidente relacionado con el trabajo y asigna la responsabilidad parcial a su empleador, que había rechazado sus solicitudes de cambio de turno debido a las amenazas que había estado recibiendo.</div>
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El abogado de Kouneva dijo que el pago de daños y perjuicios sería una ayuda para pagar por su atención médica en París, donde todavía está por una serie de operaciones quirúrgicas para restablecer su salud. No está claro si OIKOMET tiene la intención de apelar la decisión del tribunal. Además, hay que señalar que, cinco años después del asalto, aún no han sido identificados los agresores.</div>
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mpatmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11614716647675342739noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2484141008782526310.post-49141022237532039642013-07-14T14:25:00.000+03:002013-07-14T14:40:10.386+03:00#rbnews weekly bulletin 06-12 July 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The text companion to <a href="http://international.radiobubble.gr/2013/07/rbnews-international-show-7-july-2013.html" target="_blank">this week's #rbnews international show</a> is now online. You can read it after the jump.<br />
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<b>1. Release of hunger striker Kostas Sakkas</b><br />
The Council of Magistrates of Appeals decided on Thursday that Kostas Sakkas could be released under conditions after 951 days of detention without trial and 38 days of hunger strike.<br />
Sakkas had been arrested on 04 December 2010 and was kept on pretrial detention ever since, on accusations of aggravated illegal weapons possession and participation in a terrorist group. His time on remand had been extended from 12 months to 18, then to two and a half years and finally to a total of three years, well beyond the legal and constitutional limits for pretrial detention. He had engaged in a hunger strike on 04 June 2013 to protest the latest extention of his time on remand by 6 months.<br />
Public pressure played no small role in ensuring Sakkas's release. Multiple statements were released by trade unions, bar associations and other civil society agencies this week to demand his release, including NGO Médecins du Monde, who <a href="http://www.mdmgreece.gr/%CE%94%CE%B5%CE%BB%CF%84%CE%AF%CE%B1-%CE%A4%CF%8D%CF%80%CE%BF%CF%85/%CE%94%CE%B5%CE%BB%CF%84%CE%AF%CE%BF-%CE%A4%CF%8D%CF%80%CE%BF%CF%85-%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%B1%CF%86%CE%BF%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%AC-%CE%BC%CE%B5-%CF%84%CE%BF%CE%BD-%CE%B1%CF%80%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%B3%CF%8C-%CF%80%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE%BD%CE%B1%CF%82-%CE%A3%CE%B1%CE%BA%CE%BA%CE%AC-%CE%9A%CF%8E%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B1" target="_blank">reported</a> that the policemen on duty would not allow them to visit Sakkas in the hospital, and <a href="http://www.amnesty.org.gr/%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%B7%CF%83%CF%85%CF%87%CE%AF%CE%B1-%CE%B3%CE%B9%CE%B1-%CF%84%CE%B7-%CF%83%CF%85%CE%BD%CE%B5%CF%87%CE%B9%CE%B6%CF%8C%CE%BC%CE%B5%CE%BD%CE%B7-%CF%80%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%83%CF%89%CF%81%CE%B9" target="_blank">Amnesty International</a>. Several campaign events were organized during the week on social media, and a group of prominent Greeks, including journalists, academics, artists and several former political detainees of the Junta <a href="http://news.radiobubble.gr/2013/07/blog-post_10.html?spref=tw" target="_blank">announced on Wednesday</a> that they would launch a collective hunger strike in solidarity with Sakkas should the Council of Magistrates of Appeals fail to take a decision for his release on Thursday. SYRIZA's Euro MP Nikos Chountis also filed a question to the European Commission on the subject on Tuesday.<br />
Several public protests also took place around the country during the week to demand the release of Kostas Sakkas. On Wednesday, a small march near the Acropolis to inform foreign tourists of Sakkas's case was brutally assaulted by the police. <a href="http://omniatv.com/blog/3167" target="_blank">Videos</a> captured by tweeps <a href="https://twitter.com/kinimatini" target="_blank">@kinimatini</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/_giant_" target="_blank">@_giant_</a> show police on motorbikes driving between demonstrators in a pedestrian street on the very site of the Pnyx, the birthplace of ancient democracy, then assaulting the group and savagely beating at least one protester who had fallen to the ground. 13 persons were detained, of which 3 were later arrested. Their trial was postponed to 18 August.<br />
The Council of Magistrates of Appeals decision on Thursday was greeted with relief by the public who were campaigning for Sakkas's release, but also by harsh criticism for the tight conditions it set, including a ban on leaving the country, mandatory appearance every Monday at the police station of the area, a bail of 30,000 euros, a ban on meeting or communication with his fellow defendants, confiscation of his passport, compulsory residence at his parent’s house and a limitation on movement restricted to the Attica prefecture. A movement has been launched to collect funds for Sakkas's bail. It was reported on Thursday evening that Sakkas was moved to the civilian area of the Nikaia General Hospital and that he was eating food for the first time in 38 days. It is unclear yet what long-term consequences he may suffer from his hunger strike.<br />
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<b>2. Renewed tensions in Skouries</b><br />
Tensions flared again in north-eastern Halkidiki this week when the prosecutor and the investigating magistrate in charge of the arson attack case against the Hellas Gold mining worksite on 17 February 2013 ordered that another two residents of Ierissos be held in remand. The court case for this arson attack identifies 20 people as suspects, of which two were being already held in pretrial detention. The latest arrests bring the total to 4.<br />
According to <a href="http://antigoldgreece.wordpress.com/2013/07/10/sta-akra-i-katastasi/" target="_blank">Hellenic Mining Watch</a>, the so-called indications of guilt for the two men who were arrested are flimsy at best, as one of them was in Mount Athos on the night of 17 February, while the charge against the other is that he had ten unanswered phone calls on his mobile phone.<br />
The news that the two men would be held on remand caused clashes outside the courthouse of the regional capital, Polygyros, where police threw teargas and flash bangs to disperse the crowd. The 15-year-old son of one of the two arrestees was arrested for assaulting the police upon hearing the news of his father imprisonment, while his grandfather was beaten by the riot police. Clashes later took place in and around the village of Megali Panagia, where tear gas canisters shot by the police set several trees of the surrounding forest <a href="http://antigoldgreece.wordpress.com/2013/07/10/foties-stin-panagia/" target="_blank">on fire</a>. A 73-year-old resident who was severely wounded during the clashes <a href="http://antigoldgreece.wordpress.com/2013/07/11/sygkrouseis-panagia/" target="_blank">was arrested</a> by the police .<br />
The situation in north-eastern Halkidiki has been explosive for over a year due to a conflict between local residents and mining company Hellas Gold and its Canadian-based mother company Eldorado Gold. The mining companies want to develop a large-scale gold and copper mine in the area, in particular in the Skouries forest, an area of exceptional biodiversity and natural beauty. In this they have the support of the Greek government and political class, who claim that this type of foreign investment is part of the solution for the country to exit the crisis. Local residents and independent scientific organizations oppose the mining plans, saying that it would cause massive and irreparable damage to the environment and the local economy, while pointing out that the transfer of mining rights to Hellas Gold is a political and financial scandal.<br />
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<b>3. ERT shutdown, continued</b><br />
Greece's public broadcaster ERT is still broadcasting online and via analogue frequencies in Greece one month after the government ordered it to be shut down. The broadcasts are continuing with the help of the European Broadcasting Union, who retransmit ERT's signal via their satellite feed. The government is however still taking measures to prevent the broadcasts. On 8 July, police and privately-hired technicians brought down the transmitters in <a href="http://www.ertopen.com/news-in-4-languges/english/item/1292#.UeKMGI1M9gG" target="_blank">Cephalonia</a> while similar actions were prevented in <a href="http://www.ertopen.com/news-in-4-languges/english/item/1362#.UeKMGI1M9gH" target="_blank">Patras and Chania</a> by the gathering of large groups of citizens who protected the transmitters.<br />
It <a href="http://www.paron.gr/typologies/?p=33093" target="_blank">transpired</a> on Tuesday evening that the government would be launching broadcasts on the ERT digital frequencies starting Wednesday with the help of digital network provider DIGEA, a consortium of Greece's six largest private TV stations. Indeed, on Wednesday morning, the ERT digital frequencies came alive with the logo of "Greek Public Television" which is being broadcast from <a href="http://www.advertising.gr/Article/6124/Ekpempei-sima-i-" target="_blank">private studios</a> owned by Christos and Ninos Elmatzoglou. The Elmatzoglou company is partly owned by Pegasus, which owns Greece's largest TV station Mega, and the Lambrakis Journalism Group, another one of Greece's largest private media groups. The studios hosted for many years the Mega TV broadcasts. Furthermore, the deputy minister in charge of the public broadcaster, Pantelis Kapsis, has close links to both Mega TV and the Lambrakis Journalism Group in his capacity as a journalist.<br />
The paradox of a so-called public television broadcasting from private studios owned by the deputy minister's private-sector employers was not lost on ERT staff, <a href="http://www.ertopen.com/eidiseis/item/1409-edt-to-pseytiko-antigrafo-ths-ert#.UeKMHI1M9gH" target="_blank">who raised several legal issues</a>. They asked if "Greek Public Television" has been recognized by the National Council for Radio and Television, if it has a licence to broadcast, how digital network provider DIGEA and the Hellenic Telecommunications Organization could broadcast its signal if no licence was issued, and who is paying the salaries of the workers operating the station. The government gave no answer to those questions.<br />
Another legal issue pertaining to the issue of broadcasts by the so-called "Greek Public TV" is the fact that a large number of artists announced at the time of the ERT shutdown that any new broadcaster would not be allowed to use their work. This did not prevent the new channel from broadcasting, on its first day of operation, a movie by director <a href="http://www.ertopen.com/eidiseis/item/1484-robhros-manthoylhs-dysfhmish-h-metadosh-ths-tainias-moy-se-kataptysto-kanali#.UeKMH41M9gH" target="_blank">Roviros Manthoulis</a>, who said that he would go to court and demand €20,000 in damages from the State.<br />
Meanwhile, three large journalist unions went on work stoppage in private media on Thursday to protest against the launch of "Greek Public TV", while the <a href="http://www.poesy.gr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1047:2013-07-10-14-18-13&catid=32:news&Itemid=4" target="_blank">Pan-Hellenic Federation of Editors' Unions</a> announced that it would engage in long-term strike action if "Greek Public Television" were to pursue broadcasting.<br />
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<b>4. New austerity package and protests</b><br />
Protests flared up again in Greece this week as the government announced that it has finalized, in collaboration with the EU-ECB-IMF troika of lenders, a <a href="http://prin.gr/?p=1669" target="_blank">new austerity package</a> that involves, among other things, putting on furlough with immediate effect 12,500 civil servants at a time when the <a href="http://www.statistics.gr/portal/page/portal/ESYE/BUCKET/A0101/PressReleases/A0101_SJO02_DT_MM_04_2013_01_F_GR.pdf" target="_blank">latest report</a> of the Hellenic Statistics Authority shows that unemployment in Greece had reached 26.9% in April 2013.<br />
The key groups included under these plans are municipal workers, especially municipal policemen, school janitors and teachers. The <a href="http://www.poeota.gr/" target="_blank">union of local government workers</a> engaged in industrial action this week as did teachers' unions, whose protest in front of the Ministry of Education was <a href="http://www.alfavita.gr/arthra/%CE%B5%CF%80%CE%AF%CE%B8%CE%B5%CF%83%CE%B7-%CF%84%CF%89%CE%BD-%CE%BC%CE%B1%CF%84-%CF%83%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%85%CF%82-%CE%B5%CE%BA%CF%80%CE%B1%CE%B9%CE%B4%CE%B5%CF%85%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%BF%CF%8D%CF%82-%CE%AD%CE%BE%CF%89-%CE%B1%CF%80%CF%8C-%CF%84%CE%BF-%CF%85%CF%80%CF%80%CE%B1%CE%B9%CE%B4%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE%B1%CF%82-%CE%B2%CE%B9%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%B5%CE%BF" target="_blank">brutally dispersed</a> by riot police on Wednesday. Most disturbingly, municipal policemen were offered and accepted the support of Golden Dawn, thus fueling concerns of a very high penetration rate of law enforcement agencies by the neo-Nazi party.<br />
Greece's two largest labour unions, the <a href="http://www.gsee.gr/news/news_view.php?id=2107" target="_blank">General Confederation of Workers</a> and the Federation of Civil Servants, have announced a general strike on Tuesday 16 July to protest the new austerity package .<br />
News of the new austerity package emerged as the National Committee for Human Rights, the State's advisory body on human rights issues, published an <a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1dLi06rebUGU3JKamp0ZG12eG8/edit" target="_blank">extensive report</a> on the reactions of international bodies to the recommendations it had issued in December 2011 regarding the impact of the crisis on human rights. The report notes that the Committee's recommendations were approved by various international bodies, including the European Committee on Social Rights, the International Labour Organization, and the European Court of Human Rights, who refer to these recommendations in multiple statements, reports and decisions. The Committee concludes that there is a need for "an immediate mobilization of all forces in Europe to save the founding values of European civilization."<br />
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<b>5. <a href="http://www.alfavita.gr/arthra/%CE%B5%CE%B9%CF%83%CE%B2%CE%BF%CE%BB%CE%AE-%CF%84%CF%89%CE%BD-%CE%BC%CE%B1%CF%84-%CE%BA%CE%B1%CE%B9-%CF%83%CF%85%CE%BB%CE%BB%CE%AE%CF%88%CE%B5%CE%B9%CF%82-%CF%86%CE%BF%CE%B9%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%84%CF%8E%CE%BD-%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B7%CE%BD-%CF%80%CF%81%CF%85%CF%84%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE%B1-%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%85-%CE%B5%CE%BA%CF%80%CE%B1#ixzz2YRX4iwzr" target="_blank">Police intervention in Athens University</a> on Monday 08 July</b><br />
The central building of the University of Athens became the scene of yet another incident of police brutality on the morning of Monday 08 July, when students joined a group of university staff who had gathered in front of the main meeting room upon being informed that the University Board was holding an unannounced meeting to discuss management and administrative issues. The riot police was called by members of the University Board, who claimed that the protest put their lives in danger.<br />
Despite assurances from professors who were participating in the protest that there was no such risk, the police initially sought to saw open the metal gates, then, after the gates were opened from the inside, detained 32 students who were transferred to the Athens Police Headquarters before being released.<br />
Commenting on these events, Radiobubble guest contributor Panagiotis Sotiris noted that the entrance of the riot police in university premises was made possible by the abolition of the right of asylum in the summer of 2011: "It is now becoming obvious that we are witnessing an authoritarian institutional transformation of Greek Higher Education, aiming at restricting the ability of the student movement and the university movement in general to raise obstacles to the shift towards a more entrepreneurial Higher Education." You can read his full analysis <a href="http://international.radiobubble.gr/2013/07/guest-post-days-of-junta-in-university.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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<b>6. <a href="http://tvxs.gr/news/%CE%B5%CE%BB%CE%BB%CE%AC%CE%B4%CE%B1/%CE%B5%CF%85%CE%B8%CF%8D%CE%BD%CE%B5%CF%82-%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B7%CE%BD-%CE%BF%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%BF%CE%BC%CE%B5%CF%84-%CE%B3%CE%B9%CE%B1-%CF%84%CE%B7-%CE%B5%CF%80%CE%AF%CE%B8%CE%B5%CF%83%CE%B7-%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B7%CE%BD-%CE%BA%CE%BF%CF%8D%CE%BD%CE%B5%CE%B2%CE%B1" target="_blank">Justice for Konstantina Kouneva</a></b><br />
A Piraeus court ordered this week sanitation company OIKOMET to pay €250,000 in damages to Konstantina Kouneva, thus acknowledging the company's responsibility in the assault she was subjected to in December 2008.<br />
Konstantina Kouneva is a Bulgarian national who moved to Greece in 2001. She was the general secretary of the Attica Union of Sanitation Workers and House Helpers and had received numerous threats because of her activities as a labour unionist. Late in the evening of 22 December 2008, as she returned from work, she was assaulted by two men who poured acid over her and forced her to drink some as well. The court decision recognizes the assault as a work-related incident and assigns partial responsibility to her employer, who had rejected her requests for a change of shift because of the threats she had been receiving.<br />
Kouneva's lawyer said that the damages payment would help pay for her medical care in Paris, where she is still undergoing a series of surgical operations to restore her health. It is unclear however if OIKOMET intends to appeal the court decision. It must further be noted that, five years after the assault, the assailants have still not been identified.<br />
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<b>7. Corruption in Greece: the case of the 4,500 jobs in Manolada</b><br />
Transparency International published this week its <a href="http://www.transparency.org/gcb2013/country/?country=greece" target="_blank">Global Corruption Barometer</a> for 2013, which shows that more than half of Greeks feel that corruption in the country has increased in the past year. The three major institutions of public life that Greeks feel are most corrupt are political parties (90%), the media (86%) and the parliament (83%).<br />
The 4500 jobs allegedly announced for strawberry-picking in Manolada are a prime example of the reason why Greeks cannot trust their media or public administrations. Manolada is an agricultural area of the northern Peloponnese which <a href="http://international.radiobubble.gr/2013/04/28-workers-injured-at-manolada-when.html" target="_blank">became infamous</a> for the shooting of 28 immigrant farm workers by farm foremen on 18 April 2013. The shooting revealed the abject conditions in which the immigrants were working, which are tantamount to modern-day slavery.<br />
On 7 June, 113 strawberry farmers from Manolada stated that they would be recruiting 4500 farm workers through the Labour Agency in order to show their commitment to fair working conditions and transparency. The story was widely carried by mainstream Greek media, even more so after a number of websites claimed that only 10 Greeks had applied for the jobs.<br />
However, the administrator of a blog called "<a href="http://www.imerologioanergou.gr/details.php?aid=1006#.UdVnElV4WKs.twitter" target="_blank">An Unemployed Man's Diary</a>" revealed this week that, when he sought to apply for one of those jobs, the local labour office referred to the farmers' cooperatives, while the farmers' cooperatives referred him to the labour office. In the end, he was not able to find any vacancy advertisement at all, and OAED employees told <a href="http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_06/07/2013_507897" target="_blank">Kathimerini newspaper</a> that it was all obviously a publicity stunt. However, the most prominent journalists who had essentially used the "10 applicants for 4500 jobs" line to justify the use of slave labour in Manolada have failed to retract their stories.<br />
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<b>8. <a href="http://icantrelaxingreece.wordpress.com/2013/07/11/golden-dawn-attacks-social-space-with-clubs-and-crowbars/" target="_blank">Golden Dawn attack on the Synergeio social space in Ilioupoli</a></b><br />
Some 100 Golden Dawn members attacked on Wednesday evening the open social space ‘Synergeio’, near Ilioupolis’ central square, while the police stood by.<br />
At 7:30 in the evening, there was an English language class going on, with most participants being minors. The only two adults present on the scene were the teacher, who is over 60 years old and another person. A group riding 50 motorbikes and holding Greek flags, clubs and crowbars arrives at the scene. They were wearing GD T-shirts and scattered around brochures with their political positions. They assaulted not only the adults but also the children, while they made a mess of the place. Pictures and videos show policemen standing by during the attack, even though <a href="http://www.amna.gr/blogview.php?id=36577" target="_blank">the police reported detaining 8 people</a>.<br />
It is the third time since March 2013 that Synergeio comes under attack.<br />
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<b>9. Immigration detention centres and State practices against immigrants</b><br />
The Minister of Public Order Nikos Dendias visited on Thursday the island of Lesbos to supervise the camp that will be used as a reception centre for immigrants in the island. While there, he answered a journalist’s question about detention conditions in Amygdaleza, a migrant detention centre outside of Athens, and gave a <a href="http://news247.gr/eidiseis/politiki/dendias_h_amygdaleza_einai_apo_ta_pio_sugxrona_stratopeda_sthn_eyrwph.2329509.html" target="_blank">rather provocative answer</a>. Despite multiple claims of ill-treatment of detainees, Mr. Dendias described Amygdaleza as one of the most modern European detention centres.<br />
Dendias further stated in Lesbos, which is the main entry point to Europe for immigrants, his satisfaction with the reception centre that will operate there by the end of August.<br />
On its side,<a href="http://www.amnesty.org.tr/ai/system/files/Frontier%20Europe%20Human%20Rights%20Abuses%20on%20Greece%E2%80%99s%20border%20with%20Turkey.pdf" target="_blank"> Amnesty International</a> expresses serious concerns about detention conditions in police stations of Lesbos but also for Greece’s general policy regarding immigration. In a recent report, the organization states that the Greek government is trying to seal the country’s borders not only with tightened monitoring and the construction of a fence but also with a violent policy of refoulement. Some of the immigrants interviewed in Athens by Amnesty said that they had been abandoned at sea in ships that were not seaworthy or dropped on the Turkish side of the border with their hands bound.<br />
Because of restrictions on refugee status in Turkey, support to those people who are sent back is extremely limited.<br />
Lastly, according to the same report, immigrants arrested on the border and undocumented migrants identified during sweep operations inside Greece are faced with long-term detention, often in appalling conditions, while the necessity and proportionality of such detention is not examined despite the legal requirement to do so.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2484141008782526310.post-56449344114363316452013-07-14T14:17:00.002+03:002013-07-19T12:40:16.311+03:00#rbnews international show 13 July 2013: reactions to the case of Kostas Sakkas<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
For this week's #rbnews international show, we asked netizens from Greece and abroad to send in their reactions to the case of Kostas Sakkas, who was released on Thursday 11 June after 951 days in prison without a trial and 38 days of hunger strike.<br />
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Many thanks to all those who sent in a short sound clip, and apologies to those whose clips we couldn't broadcast due to a lack of time.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2484141008782526310.post-20882273067476017272013-07-12T16:11:00.000+03:002013-07-12T16:22:09.525+03:00Police attack on a demonstration for K. Sakkas (and my arrest for a video) - by @_giant_<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">During the march, in which were about 150 people, slogans were written and leaflets were distributed, mostly in English, since the place is mostly a tourist destination.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">All four flashbang grenades were thrown and exploded right at my feet, possibly deliberately, since I was holding a camcorder. I was stunned and for a short while I </span></span><span style="line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">couldn't</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;"> hear anything. I knelt briefly on a step outside an ice-cream shop. Then I realized that behind me they were arresting people, while a girl with a camcorder was verbally and physically attacked (later on I found out it was </span></span><a href="http://www.twitter.com/kinimatini" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.15; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank">@Kinimatini</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">). I turned my camcorder to that direction immediately, trying to capture the police violence.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">At that point, one of the “DELTA” policemen came to the ice-cream shop and grabbed me. Then I threw the camcorder to other people in the shop, in order to save the shots. Shouting, cursing and beating, they threw me down, beside the other arrestees. When they made sure there are no more cameras, they started beating and cursing not only us, but also other people who were protesting the situation. Finally, a cop found my camcorder. As I learned, they threatened the shop’s employees and also a woman who was in the march.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">While cursing me, they gave me the camcorder to keep in my bag, and they tied my hands intentionally tight with two plastic handcuffs, behind my back. Then, a riot police squad arrived and put us in patrol cars, taking us to Central Police Headquarters in Athens. There they took off the handcuffs. Mine were so tight that they </span></span><span style="line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">couldn't</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;"> cut them off without a small cut on my wrist.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">At that point cops from the bicycle-mounted DELTA squad arrived. They took me away from the other arrestees and asked to see the videos in my camcorder while insulting me. I asked if this is legal, and they scoffed me. When they saw the video from their attack on us, they were celebrating: “Oh, we fucked them good!” and “you are such assholes that we fuck you and you post the videos to </span></span><span style="line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">YouTube</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by yourselves” and also other similar, gang-like comments. After a while, they opened my bag, checking its content and making comments about illnesses in connection to some medicine I had with me, etc. Finally, they took my bag and camcorder to the Head Officer’s office.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">In total, we were 13 people in there. I </span></span><span style="line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">realized</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;"> that almost everyone was beaten, had torn clothes, etc. They took us one by one into the office for our details, and they took also our mobile phones.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">Then, a plainclothes officer led me to a separate office, where he forced me to delete the video. The DELTA cops were meanwhile asking all the time whether the video was deleted, obviously not wanting the record to be </span></span><span style="line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">publicized</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">Since my hearing has not recovered, I visited a doctor, where I was diagnosed with acoustic trauma in both ears. Luckily, it </span></span><span style="line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">doesn't</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;"> seem to be serious and my hearing is expected to recover within the next 10 days.</span></span></span></div>
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Update (12 July 2013): For the record, I went yesterday to a doctor for a more thorough examination. As of now, I can’t hear low frequencies with my right ear. I got a prescription with lots of cortisone, and I will go for another check next Tuesday. In the end, as the doctor told me, it’s debatable whether and when my hearing will fully recover.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2484141008782526310.post-86441611991447480842013-07-10T23:07:00.000+03:002013-07-10T23:07:17.328+03:00Italy's Collectivo Prezzemolo's solidarity release for Kostas Sakkas<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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"Kostas Sakkas is on hunger strike for 36 days. He has been held in preemptive detention for more than 30 months. His ongoing detention is violating the Constitution and the legislation, which do not allow for more than 18 months of imprisonment without a trial. <br /><br /><div>
Kostas Sakkas is accused of arms possession and participation in the organization “Fire Cells’ Conspiracy” despite that both himself and the arrested members of the organization deny it. In an official announcement, the governing party of New Democracy is accusing Sakkas of “anarchism”, in an attempt to penalize his ideas. <br /></div>
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At this point, his health is considered to be in a very critical condition, as the doctors have stated that they consider not only the possibility of permanent health damage, but also his death, as a potential outcome of the hunger strike. He is determined, though, to go forward with it, until the end.<br />Despite the above, a decision issued last week by the Judiciary Council of the Appeals’ Court stated that his preemptive detention can be continued. The Amnesty International, the Lawyers’ Boards and many other relevant institutions have identified many shortcomings in the legal procedures that were followed. <br /></div>
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The Greek State, blindly following the Troika’s diktats, appears once again ruthless and insensible. Having adopted a strategy of extreme repression in order to apply a disastrous neoliberal economic policy, it once again chooses to ignore its own legislation and is ready to let a human being die in prison, without even officially confirming what he is accused of. <br /></div>
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The Greek state promotes a logic that permits it to penalize any kind of struggle, to invade the homes of anti-mine activists in Skouries, to send the riot police inside the Rectorate of the Athens University in order to arrest protesting students, to condemn a whole society in “slow death” through the extreme austerity measures. It is this exact logic being applied in the case of Kostas Sakkas. <br /></div>
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Because the Greek government’s disastrous economic policy and frontal attack to labor rights cannot be applied without extreme forms of repression and liberties’ suppression.<br /></div>
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We won’t let them murder Kostas Sakkas! We won’t allow them to kill the Greek people! <br /></div>
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We demand the immediate liberation of Kostas Sakkas."</div>
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Кроткаяhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00526347887822752050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2484141008782526310.post-34108794343443392742013-07-10T23:04:00.000+03:002013-07-10T23:04:05.873+03:00Communiqué de l'Initiative de solidarité avec la Grèce qui resiste (Bruxelles) pour Kostas Sakkas<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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L'Initiative de solidarité avec la Grèce qui resiste de Bruxelles a publié le <a href="http://solidarity-greece.blogspot.it/2013/07/pour-la-liberation-immediate-de-costas.html">communiqué suivant</a>:<br />
<br />Costas Sakkas est en grève de faim depuis 35 jours, et détenu en prison depuis 30 mois, en violation de la Constitution et des lois qui ne permettent que 18 mois de detention preventive. Sakkas est accusé d'avoir eu des armes dans sa possession et aussi de participer à l'organisation 'Conspiration des socles de feu', même si lui même, ainsi que l'organisation l'ont démenti. Entretemps, le parti gouvernementale de la Nouvelle Démocratie l'accuse aussi, dans son annonce, d' 'être anarchiste', dans un effort de criminaliser l'idéologie.<br /><br />Sa santé est en état critique maintenant, puisque les médecins traitants déclarent que des dommages irreversibles ne sont plus exclus, ni la mort d'ailleurs. Mais il semble déterminé de continuer sa grève de faim jusqu'à la fin. Pourtant, selon la décision du conseil judiciaire de la Cour d'appel, publiée lors de la semaine dernière, sa détention provisoire peut être continué malgré le fait que l'Amnéstie Internationale, des barreaux et d'autres organisations constatent plusieurs défauts de procédure dans le cas de sa détention. <br /><br />L'Etat grec, obéissant aveuglement aux ordres de la Troika, encore une fois se montre sans scrupule et ne cède pas. Ayant adopté une ligne de reppression extrême, afin de poursuivre une politique néolibérale catastrophique, encore une fois il est en train de violer la Constitution (qui prévoit 18 mois de détention provisoire au maximum) ainsi que toutes les lois qui protègent des droits, ici droits de procédure pénale, et laisse un homme mourir dans la prison sans qu'il soit jamais officiellement accusé de quelque chose. Dans la même logique qui le mène à criminaliser toute forme de lutte, ce même Etat qui casse les portes pour entrer dans les maisons des militants anti mines de Skouries, qui envoie les CRS dans le Rectorat de l'Université d'Athènes afin d'arrêter des étudiants qui protestent, qui condamne à une mort lente un peuple entier à travers l'austérité extrême, ce même Etat traite de la même logique le cas de Kostas Sakkas. Car les politiques catastrophiques d'austérité, l'attaque frontale contre les droits des travailleurs et des conquêtes sociales ne peut pas s'appliquer sans une repression extrême ou une suppression des libertés.<br />Nous ne laisseros pas tuer Sakkas. Nous ne laisserons pas tuer le peuple grec. <br /><br />Nous exigeons la libération immédiate de Costas Sakkas.<br /><br /><a href="http://solidarity-greece.blogspot.be/">L'Initiative de Solidarité à la Grèce qui Résiste - Bruxelles </a></div>
Кроткаяhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00526347887822752050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2484141008782526310.post-36211467790200764052013-07-09T22:39:00.001+03:002013-07-09T23:30:23.464+03:00Guest post: ‘Days of Junta’ in the University of Athens<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;">By </span><span style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;">Panagiotis Sotiris</span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">[1]</span></span></span></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For anyone watching what was
happening at the central building of the University of Athens on July 8 2013
the feeling was one of reliving images from the 1967-1974 military dictatorship,
especially if we take into consideration that collective memory in Greece is
still haunted by the image of a military tank crashing the gate of the National
Polytechnic University during the November 1973 student uprising. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tens of <a href="http://left.gr/news/eisvoli-tis-astynomias-stin-prytaneia-prosagoges-foititon-fot-enimerosi">riot
policemen and special police</a> units in full gear surrounded and stormed the
building and arrested 31 students who were peacefully protesting against
changes in the administration of Greek universities and especially the
introduction of ‘University Councils’ as the main governing bodies of Greek Higher
Education, as part of the latest wave of <a href="http://lastingfuture.blogspot.gr/2013/02/neoliberalism-and-higher-education-in.html">university
reforms</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">University Councils, modeled after
the new forms of academic management spreading all over Europe, are comprised
of academics and representatives of ‘society’ and the ‘business community’ and
have been criticized as undermining academic democracy and enhancing an
aggressively entrepreneurial conception of Higher Education. Both University
Teachers’ Unions and Student Unions have waged a long battle against university
councils and the July 8 protest was part of this battle.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">However, this time the president of
the University of Athens Councils, Prof. <a href="http://web.mit.edu/dbertsim/www/">Dimitri Bertsimas</a>, an MIT professor,
chose to call the police, stating that he and the other members of the council
were in danger. The call to the police was made by Vaso Kinti, a philosophy
professor well known for her support to aggressive neoliberal reforms. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Since the Right of Asylum in Universities, the
explicit ban on forces of order to enter University premises has been lifted,
as part of the latest wave of university reforms, there was no legal obstacle to the
police invasion. The police stormed the building and arrested the students. Police
were even ready to use an angle grinder to open another door and arrest the
rest of the protesting students, when under the protests of union
representatives and members of parliament they were ordered to withdraw. In the
end all students were set free and no charges were pressed against them, but
the problem of a brutal police attack against a legitimate student protest
remains.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This case highlights the motivation
behind the decision to abolish University Asylum. For many years those supporting giving police the right to intervene inside university premises
(including the <a href="http://richardbrenneman.wordpress.com/2011/11/23/wikicable-washington-hated-greek-asylum-law/">US
Ambassador</a> in Athens!) insisted that this is a necessary measure to prevent
violent rioting. In contrast, supporters of the university sanctuary warned
that such a measure would lead to the police invading universities in order to
arrest protesting students and striking professors. It is now becoming obvious
that we are witnessing an authoritarian institutional transformation of Greek
Higher Education, aiming at restricting the ability of the student movement and
the university movement in general to raise obstacles to the shift towards a
more entrepreneurial Higher Education. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Greek Student Movement has a
long history of successful struggles in the past 35 years, governments have
been forced to repeal laws or even the 2007 constitutional reform under the
pressure of mass student movements, and all these can explain why radical
student practices are now being targeted as part of the broader undemocratic
and authoritarian turn that has accompanied the austerity packaged and the
EU-IMF-ECB supervision. It is the same
authoritarian turn that led to shutting down Greek Public Radio and Television
(<a href="http://lastingfuture.blogspot.gr/2013/06/greece-struggle-over-public-television.html">ERT</a>)
and keeps hunger striker <a href="http://international.radiobubble.gr/2013/06/kostas-sakkas-three-years-on-remand-in.html">Kostas
Sakkas</a> in prison for more than 30 months without trial.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hopefully, students, university
teachers and other higher education personnel have insisted that they are not
intimidated by such developments and
that they will continue struggling against the neoliberal transformation of
Higher Education, including struggling against any attempts to make ‘University
Councils’ the main governing bodies of Greek Universities. The fight is far
from over. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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social and political philosophy at the Department of Sociology of the
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2484141008782526310.post-62634808944165317052013-07-09T16:39:00.000+03:002013-07-09T16:44:03.301+03:00Boletim informativo da Grécia #16 - 06.07.2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>No noticiário internacional #rbnews esta semana</b>:<br />
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<li>Depois de dois anos e sete meses de detenção sem julgamento, Kostas Sakkas se encontra no 33º dia de greve de fome</li>
<li>Com ERT ainda fechada, o governo grego está promovendo um projeto de lei para criar uma nova, encolhida, emissora nacional</li>
<li>Com o número de incidentes racistas subindo na Grécia, a Rede de Registro de Incidentes de Violência Racista apresentou uma série de propostas para o novo Ministro da Justiça</li>
<li>O novo ministro da Saúde, Adonis Georgiadis, imediatamente depois de assumir seu cargo, re-ativou a inaceitável portaria que ordena que depois de adução de prostitutas o teste de AIDS seja obrigatório, criminalizando assim a doença; sua decisão provocou protestos internacionais.</li>
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<a name='more'></a><b>1. Kostas Sakkas</b><br />
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Kostas Sakkas entra hoje seu 33 º dia de greve de fome depois de dois anos, sete meses e três dias de detenção "temporária", sem julgamento, após sua prisão em Atenas, em 04 de dezembro de 2010. Sakkas é acusado de posse ilegal de armas e participação na organização terrorista "Conspiração dos Núcleos de Fogo". A extensão de sua prisão temporária de 18 meses a dois anos e meio e, recentemente, para um total de três anos, tem sido amplamente condenada na Grécia como abusiva e ilegal, como o julgamento ainda não ocorreu.<br />
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O exame médico de Sakkas em seu 31 º dia de greve de fome conclui que, tendo perdido 13 kg ou mais de 15% do seu peso original, ele já está além do limite máximo de perda de peso considerado seguro e que ele corre o risco de danos irreversíveis em principais funções corporais; enquanto continuar sua greve de fome "levará a uma morte certa". (<a href="https://twitter.com/northaura/status/353107542190215168/photo/1">Fonte</a>)<br />
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Uma petição pela libertação de Sakkas foi lançada na quinta-feira, 04 de julho, pelo Movimento pelas Liberdades e Direitos Democráticos dos Nossos Tempos (<a href="http://ekedde.wordpress.com/2013/07/04/protsakk/">fonte</a>), que recolheu centenas de assinaturas nas primeiras 24 horas. Enquanto isso, o promotor vice-chefe, Ioannis Moraitakis, o mesmo promotor cujas recomendações levaram para a última prorrogação de seis meses de prisão de Sakkas, propôs ao Conselho da Magistratura de Apelações que o pedido de Sakkas para a libertação deve ser rejeitada. O Conselho deverá emitir sua decisão nos próximos dias (<a href="http://www.enet.gr/?i=news.el.article&id=372780">fonte</a>)<br />
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Um protesto ocorreu na sexta-feira à noite em frente ao Hospital Geral de Nikaia, onde o Sakkas está hospitalizado, para exigir a sua libertação. Outro protesto está previsto na segunda-feira 8 de julho em frente ao tribunal de apelações em Atenas.<br />
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<b>2. Fechamento de ERT, continuação</b><br />
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ERT, a emissora pública da Grécia, permanece oficialmente fora do ar para 25 dias, depois da decisão abrupta do governo de fechá-la na noite de terça-feira 11 de Junho. O governo tem ainda ignorado duas decisões do Conselho de Estado, que ordenou que a radiodifusão deve retomar imediatamente. O pessoal da ERT continua suas transmissões através de um internet livestream que é então re-emitido por satélite, com o apoio da União Europeia de Radiodifusão. Deste modo, os canais da ERT permanecem disponíveis para a maioria dos gregos sobre frequências analógicas. O governo, porém, continua tomando medidas para tentar fechá-los; por exemplo, policiais de choque, juntamente com técnicos contratados do setor privado, foram odenados de invadir o centro transmissor da ERT nas colinas Gerania que ficam no oeste de Atenas para colocar o sinal fora do ar, deixando o sudeste da Ática e o norte de Peloponesos sem transmissões.<br />
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A questão do desligamento da ERT foi discutido esta semana no Parlamento Europeu, onde atraiu críticas severas da maioria dos lados políticos, mas os representantes da Presidência da Lituânia e da Comissão Europeia ao Parlamento Europeu absteve-se de comentar, insistindo que é um assunto interno da Grécia (<a href="http://tvxs.gr/news/%CE%B5%CE%BB%CE%BB%CE%AC%CE%B4%CE%B1/%CF%83%CF%84%CE%BF-%CE%B5%CF%85%CF%81%CF%89%CE%BA%CE%BF%CE%B9%CE%BD%CE%BF%CE%B2%CE%BF%CF%8D%CE%BB%CE%B9%CE%BF-%CF%84%CE%BF-%C2%AB%CE%BB%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%BA%CE%AD%CF%84%CE%BF%C2%BB-%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B7%CE%BD-%CE%B5%CF%81%CF%84">fonte</a>)<br />
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No entanto, os relatórios sobre as negociações em curso entre o governo grego e a UE-BCE-FMI troika de credores parecem desmentir esta afirmação, e indicam que a retomada das transmissões são prejudicadas pelo fato de que os representantes da troika não concordam que o governo grego re-contratasse 2.000 funcionários da ERT para eles trabalharem em um órgão público de radiodifusão interino (<a href="http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_02/07/2013_507082">fonte</a>).<br />
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Na quinta-feira à noite, o governo apresentou a sua proposta de lei sobre um novo órgão público de radiodifusão para o parlamento (<a href="http://www.hellenicparliament.gr/Nomothetiko-Ergo/Katatethenta-Nomosxedia?law_id=c72cf627-3ab6-4094-87e4-77e478225d99">fonte</a>). Curiosamente, o projeto de lei é assinado por sete ministros, mas não por Pantelis Kapsis, o vice-ministro encarregado da emissora pública. Ainda, o projeto de lei parece firmar ainda mais, em vez de diminuir, o controle do governo sobre a emissora, especificando, entre outras coisas, que a sua comissão de fiscalização será nomeada pelo gabinete. O projeto propõe ainda que a nova agência seja financiada pelo governo central, com um capital inicial de €5 milhões, em oposição ao valor de negócios da ERT de €240 milhões (<a href="http://www.paron.gr/typologies/?p=32905">fonte</a>). Por fim, o projeto de lei não explica como o governo vai lidar com a perda de rendimentos publicos pelo fechamento da ERT, que de acordo com funcionários é estimada em torno de €300 milhões (<a href="http://www.ertopen.com/eidiseis-news/item/1129-pospert-dhmosiografoi-gia-to-nomoschedio-ths-nerit-9orthh-epanalhpsh#.UdahDvlM9gE">fonte</a>).<br />
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<b>3. Incidentes racistas</b><br />
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A Rede de Registro de Incidentes de Violência Racista, um grupo de ONGs e agências de direitos humanos estabelecido no final de 2011, por iniciativa da Comissão Nacional para os Direitos Humanos e organizado pelo UNHCR na Grécia, emitiu um conjunto de recomendações para o novo ministro de Justiça Charalambos Athanasiou em 27 Junho. Os dois eixos principais de suas recomendações são: a) fornecer proteção adequada às vítimas ou testemunhas de actos de violência racista e, b) garantir que os motivos racistas são investigados durante o processo penal (<a href="http://www.unhcr.gr/1againstracism/%CE%B4%CE%AF%CE%BA%CF%84%CF%85%CE%BF-%CE%BA%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%B1%CE%B3%CF%81%CE%B1%CF%86%CE%AE%CF%82-%CF%80%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%B9%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%8E%CE%BD-%CF%81%CE%B1%CF%84%CF%83-4/">fonte</a>). É duvidoso que o Sr. Athanasiou considerará essas recomendações, dada sua posição xenophobica em relação aos imigrantes.<br />
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Vários casos de agressão por membros da Aurora Dourada (Golden Dawn) foram relatados esta semana, não só contra as pessoas de cor, mas também contra os opositores políticos, por exemplo, 10 membros da Aurora Dourada assaltaram dois antifascistas conhecidos em Corinto na sexta-feira passada (<a href="http://left.gr/news/kataggelia-dolofoniki-epithesi-hrysaygiton-stin-korintho">Fonte</a>). Além disso, outro caso de violência racista, envolvendo esta vez policiais, foi relatado pelo Movimento contra o Racismo e a Ameaça Fascista após uma visita realizada ao centro de detenção do Aeroporto Internacional de Aténas, onde os imigrantes que estão prestes a serem deportados estão sendo mantidos. O Movimento relatou testemunhas deprimidas de detentos, que dizem que os policiais estão os insultando, demandam que os imigrantes fassem sexo oral neles, os batem e até mesmo usam aparelhos elétricos em seus órgãos genitais (<a href="http://www.avgi.gr/article/548543/basanismoi-metanaston-me-reuma-se-gennitika-organa-sto-aerodromio-el-benizelos">fonte</a>). Por último, o líder da Aurora Dourada, Nikos Michaloliakos, comparou o Giannis Antetokounmpo, um jogador de basquete grego-nigeriano e Milwaukee Bucks numero 15 draft, com um chimpanzé, dizendo: "no zoológico, se você der à um chimpanzé uma banana e uma bandeira, ele vai ser 'grego' também "(<a href="http://simonknowz.com/2013/07/03/golden-dawn-compares-bucks-antetokounmpo-chimpanzee/">fonte</a>).<br />
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As autoridades não reagiram a qualquer um desses eventos, nem mesmo por uma declaração. A mais nítida repreensão ao Michaloliakos veio da União Pan-helénica de Jogadores Profissionais de Basquete: "Ao insultar Giannis, você está insultando todos os jogadores de basquete gregos. Não importa o quanto você tente, você não vai empurrar os esportes para a selva que você está querendo criar." (<a href="http://www.psak.gr/index.php?id=16,889,0,0,1,0">Fonte</a>).<br />
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<b>4. Ordem 39A sobre saúde pública</b><br />
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Um dos primeiros atos do novo Ministro da Saúde, Adonis Georgiadis, depois que ele assumiu o cargo na semana passada foi de restabelecer a ordem de saúde pública 39A, que havia sido abolida apenas um mês atrás por sua antecessora, do partido Esquerda Democrática, vice-ministra F. Skopouli. (<a href="http://actupathens.blogspot.gr/2013/07/39-dos.html">Fonte</a>).<br />
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O Decreto 39A autoriza os serviços médicos públicos de testar pessoas à força para doenças contagiosas, com um foco específico em grupos populacionais de alto risco, como profissionais do sexo, usuários de drogas injetáveis e os imigrantes. Este decreto foi uma criação do Ministro da Saúde do PASOK, Andreas Loverdos, em 2012 e foi notoriamente usado para testar à força centenas de mulheres para HIV, uma semana antes das eleições gerais em maio de 2012. Aquelas mulheres que deram positivo foram acusadas de serem prostitutas e de tentar espalhar intencionalmente o vírus, e algumas delas passaram meses na prisão antes de um tribunal de justiça julga-las inocentes. (<a href="http://www.enetenglish.gr/?i=news.en.article&id=1236&utm_source=EnetEnglish+general&utm_campaign=f40dd3215c-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_2d5bc1ed1e-f40dd3215c-26966345">Fonte</a>). Zoe Mavroudi, de Radiobubble, está preparando um documentário sobre a história dessas mulheres, intitulado "Ruínas", cujo trailer você pode assistir na nossa página principal, radiobubble.gr<br />
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A decisão do ministro para restabelecer a ordem 39A causou um clamor público na Grécia e no exterior. 25 ONGs gregas assinaram uma declaração conjunta condenando a decisão, dizendo: "Nós não podemos permitir a implementação de políticas que nos levam de volta para a Idade Média." (<a href="http://olkegr.blogspot.gr/2013/07/39.html">Fonte</a>). Human Rights Watch, também, pediu ao governo grego para "revogar um regulamento que tem sido usado para justificar o teste de HIV forçado" (<a href="http://www.hrw.org/node/116968">fonte</a>), enquanto o Prêmiado com Nobel de Medicina Françoise Barré-Sinoussi expressou sua consternação com a decisão do governo em seu discurso de encerramento da conferência da International AIDS Society, em Kuala Lumpur. (<a href="http://www.ias2013.org/WebContent/File/IAS2013_Closing_Session_Speech_Francoise_Barre-Sinoussi.pdf">Fonte</a>).</div>
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This week on the #rbnews international show, we asked lawyer Crystali Bourcha from the <a href="http://ekedde.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Movement for the Liberties and Democratic Rights of our Times</a> (Greek acronym <a href="https://twitter.com/kedde_" target="_blank">KEDDE</a>) and journalist <a href="https://twitter.com/mariniki" target="_blank">Mariniki Alevizopoulou</a> from <a href="http://unfollow.com.gr/" target="_blank">Unfollow Magazine</a> to comment on the items that we included in our news bulletin of the week, which all seem to point towards the failure of democracy in Greece.<br />
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<b>News bulletin 29 June - 05 July 2013</b><br />
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<b>1. Kostas Sakkas</b><br />
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Kostas Sakkas enters today his 33rd day of hunger strike after two years, seven months and three days of "temporary" detention without trial following his arrest in Athens on 04 December 2010. Sakkas is accused of illegal possession of firearms and participation in the terrorist organization "Conspiracy of the Nuclei of Fire." The extension of his temporary detention from 18 months to two-and-a-half years and lately to a total of three years has been widely condemned in Greece as abusive and illegal, as his trial has not yet taken place.<br />
Sakkas's<a href="https://twitter.com/northaura/status/353107542190215168/photo/1" target="_blank"> medical examination</a> on his 31st day of hunger strike concludes that, having lost 13kg or more than 15% of his original body weight, he is already beyond the maximum weight loss limit considered to be safe and that he is at risk of irreversible damage to key bodily functions, while continuing his hunger strike "will lead to certain death".<br />
A <a href="http://ekedde.wordpress.com/2013/07/04/protsakk/" target="_blank">petition</a> for Sakkas's release was launched on Thursday 04 July by the Movement for Liberties and Democratic Rights of Our Times and collected hundreds of signatures in the first 24 hours. Meanwhile, deputy chief prosecutor Ioannis Moraitakis, the same prosecutor whose recommendations led to the latest six-month extension of Sakkas's imprisonment, proposed to the <a href="http://www.enet.gr/?i=news.el.article&id=372780" target="_blank">Council of Magistrates of Appeals</a> that Sakkas's request for release should be rejected. The Council is expected to issue its decision in the coming days.<br />
A protest took place on Friday evening in front of the Nikaia General Hospital, where Sakkas is currently hospitalized, to demand his release. Another protest is planned on Monday in front of the court of appeals in Athens.<br />
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<b>2. ERT shutdown, continued</b><br />
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Greece's public broadcaster ERT remains officially off the air for the 25th day running after the government's abrupt decision to shut it down in the evening of Tuesday 11 June. The government has further ignored two rulings by the Council of State, which ordered that broadcasting should resume immediately. Several government officials tried again this week to spin the story after the national and international outcry against the shutdown, arguing <a href="http://www.tanea.gr/news/politics/article/5026985/xr-lazaridhs-to-mayro-sthn-ert-den-htan-epilogh-ths-kybernhshs" target="_blank">for example</a> that the government suspended broadcasts only after ERT employees decided to continue with pirate transmissions, thus seeking to blame the black screens on staff.<br />
ERT staff are continuing their broadcasts through an internet livestream which is then re-transmitted by satellite with the support of the European Broadcasting Union, and ERT channels remain available to most Greeks on analogue frequencies. The government is however still taking occasional measures to seek to shut them down. On 04 July, the outgoing chairman of the Athens Daily Newspaper Editors' Union <a href="http://www.paron.gr/typologies/?p=32895" target="_blank">denounced</a> the fact that riot policemen together with hired private-sector technicians broke into the ERT transmitter centre in the Gerania hills west of Athens and damaged equipments there to throw the signal off the air, leaving south-east Attica and the northern Peloponnese without broadcasts. ERT staff and opposition MPs who were able to visit the Ymittos transmission centre also <a href="http://www.ertopen.com/eidiseis-news/item/883-prwtos-elegchos-sto-kentro-ekpomphs-ymhttoy-ths-ert-anakoinwsh-ths-pospert#.UdaR2PlM9gE" target="_blank">denounced</a> damages caused to equipment there by the police.<br />
The matter of the ERT shutdown was discussed this week in the <a href="http://tvxs.gr/news/%CE%B5%CE%BB%CE%BB%CE%AC%CE%B4%CE%B1/%CF%83%CF%84%CE%BF-%CE%B5%CF%85%CF%81%CF%89%CE%BA%CE%BF%CE%B9%CE%BD%CE%BF%CE%B2%CE%BF%CF%8D%CE%BB%CE%B9%CE%BF-%CF%84%CE%BF-%C2%AB%CE%BB%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%BA%CE%AD%CF%84%CE%BF%C2%BB-%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B7%CE%BD-%CE%B5%CF%81%CF%84" target="_blank">European Parliament</a>, where it drew severe criticism from most political sides, but the representatives of the Lithuanian presidency and the European Commission to the European parliament abstained from commenting, insisting that it was an internal matter for Greece. However, <a href="http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_02/07/2013_507082" target="_blank">reports</a> about the on-going negotiations between the Greek government and the EU-ECB-IMF troika of lenders seem to belie this assertion and indicate that the resumption of broadcasts is impeded by the fact that troika representatives do not agree to the government re-hiring 2000 ERT staff for an interim public broadcasting agency.<br />
<a href="http://tvxs.gr/news/%CE%B5%CE%BB%CE%BB%CE%AC%CE%B4%CE%B1/%CE%B4%CE%B7%CE%BC%CE%BF%CF%83%CE%B9%CE%BF%CE%B3%CF%81%CE%AC%CF%86%CE%BF%CE%B9-%CE%B5%CF%81%CF%84-%C2%AB%CF%8C%CF%87%CE%B9%C2%BB-%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B7%CE%BD-%CF%80%CF%81%CF%8C%CF%84%CE%B1%CF%83%CE%B7-%CE%BA%CE%B1%CF%88%CE%AE" target="_blank">Negotiations</a> between the new deputy minister for the public broadcaster Pantelis Kapsis and ERT staff do not appear to be making any progress, as ERT staff refuse to cooperate as long as broadcasts are suspended. On Thursday evening, the government submitted its <a href="http://www.hellenicparliament.gr/Nomothetiko-Ergo/Katatethenta-Nomosxedia?law_id=c72cf627-3ab6-4094-87e4-77e478225d99" target="_blank">proposed bill</a> on a new public broadcasting agency to parliament. Interestingly, the proposed bill is signed by 7 ministers but not by Mr. Kapsis and seems to firm up rather than lessen government control over the public broadcaster, specifying, among other things, that its supervisory committee will be appointed by the cabinet. The bill <a href="http://www.paron.gr/typologies/?p=32905" target="_blank">further proposes</a> that the new agency be funded by the central government with a starting capital of €5 million, as opposed to ERT's turnover of €240 million. Lastly, the <a href="http://www.ertopen.com/eidiseis-news/item/1129-pospert-dhmosiografoi-gia-to-nomoschedio-ths-nerit-9orthh-epanalhpsh#.UdahDvlM9gE" target="_blank">bill does not explain</a> how the government will address the loss of revenue from ERT, which is estimated by employees at €300 million. In a <a href="http://www.efsyn.gr/?p=67576" target="_blank">media interview</a> on 02 June, Mr. Kapsis denied the specific amount but acknowledged that the ERT shutdown resulted in an additional financial burden for the State.<br />
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<b>3. Racist incidents</b><br />
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The Racist Violence Recording Network, a group of NGOs and human rights agencies established in late 2011 at the initiative of the National Commission for Human Rights and hosted by the UNHCR in Greece, issued a <a href="http://www.unhcr.gr/1againstracism/%CE%B4%CE%AF%CE%BA%CF%84%CF%85%CE%BF-%CE%BA%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%B1%CE%B3%CF%81%CE%B1%CF%86%CE%AE%CF%82-%CF%80%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%B9%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%8E%CE%BD-%CF%81%CE%B1%CF%84%CF%83-4/" target="_blank">set of recommendations</a> for incoming Minister of Justice Charalambos Athanasiou on 27 June. The two key axes of their recommendations are to provide adequate protection to victims of or witnesses to acts of racist violence and to ensure that racist motives are investigated during criminal proceedings. It is dubious whether Mr. Athanasiou will take such recommendations into consideration at all given past statements on the situation of the legal framework on the issue as well as his rather xenophobic stance towards immigrants.<br />
Several cases of assault by members of Golden Dawn were reported this week, not only against people of colour but also against political opponents. For example, news website left.gr <a href="http://left.gr/news/kataggelia-dolofoniki-epithesi-hrysaygiton-stin-korintho" target="_blank">reported</a> that on Friday 28/06, approximately 10 members of Golden Dawn assaulted two known antifascists in Corinth. The attackers were not identified by the police despite the presence of many witnesses on the site.<br />
The issue of impunity of perpetrators of racist attacks, but also of direct involvement of law enforcement officials in such assaults, remains an issue which the new government does not seem willing to tackle. The <a href="http://www.avgi.gr/article/548543/basanismoi-metanaston-me-reuma-se-gennitika-organa-sto-aerodromio-el-benizelos" target="_blank">latest case of racist violence by police</a> identified by the Movement Against Racism and the Fascist Threat has to do with the Athens International Airport detention centre, where immigrants who are due to be deported are being held. The Movement was able to visit the detention block together with leaders from the Pakistani community and reported chilling testimonies from detainees, who say that policemen insult them, demand that they perform oral sex on them, beat them and even use electric devices on their genitals. The government issued no comment on this report.<br />
Lastly, a high-profile case of blatantly racist discourse also failed to elicit a response from the government this week. Golden Dawn leader <a href="http://simonknowz.com/2013/07/03/golden-dawn-compares-bucks-antetokounmpo-chimpanzee/" target="_blank">Nikos Michaloliakos</a> compared Giannis Antetokounmpo, a Greek-Nigerian basketball player and Milwaukee Bucks no. 15 draft pick, to a chimpanzee, saying: "in the zoo if you give a chimpanzee a banana and a flag he’ll be ‘Greek’ too". Prime Minister Samaras, who had met earlier in the week with Antetokounmpo and his family to congratulate them, has issued no rebuke to Michaloliakos's statement, nor has any other government official. The sharpest <a href="http://www.psak.gr/index.php?id=16,889,0,0,1,0" target="_blank">rebuke</a> came from the Panhellenic Union of Professional Basketball Players: "By insulting Giannis, you are insulting all Greek basketball players. As hard as you try, you will not push sports into the jungle you are seeking to create."<br />
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<b>4. Public health order 39A</b><br />
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One of the first acts of Minister of Health Adonis Georgiadis after he took office last week was to <a href="http://actupathens.blogspot.gr/2013/07/39-dos.html" target="_blank">reinstate</a> public health order 39A, which had been abolished by his predecessor, Democratic Left Deputy Minister F. Skopouli, just one month ago.<br />
Order 39A gives public medical services the authority to force-test people for contagious diseases, with a specific focus on high-risk population groups such as sex workers, injecting drug users and immigrants. It was the <a href="http://www.enetenglish.gr/?i=news.en.article&id=1236&utm_source=EnetEnglish+general&utm_campaign=f40dd3215c-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_2d5bc1ed1e-f40dd3215c-26966345" target="_blank">brainchild</a> of PASOK Minister of Health Andreas Loverdos in 2012 and was notoriously used to round up and force-test for HIV hundreds of women in the week before the May 2012 general election. Those who tested positive were accused of being prostitutes and of seeking to intentionally spread the virus, and some of them spent months in jail before a court of law found them innocent. Radiobubble's Zoe Mavroudi is preparing a video documentary on the story of these women, titled "Ruins", whose trailer you can watch on our main page, <a href="http://radiobubble.gr/">radiobubble.gr</a><br />
The Minister's decision to reinstate order 39A caused a public outcry in Greece and abroad. 25 Greek NGOs signed a <a href="http://olkegr.blogspot.gr/2013/07/39.html" target="_blank">common statement</a> condemning the move, saying: "We cannot allow the implementation of policies that take us back to the Middle Ages (...) When the official position of the Ministry of Health does not take this into account, we must make it clear in practice." Human Rights Watch also <a href="http://www.hrw.org/node/116968" target="_blank">called</a> on the Greek government to "repeal a regulation that has been used to justify forced HIV testing" while, at the International AIDS Society conference in Kuala Lumpur, Medicine Nobel laureate Françoise Barré-Sinoussi <a href="http://www.ias2013.org/WebContent/File/IAS2013_Closing_Session_Speech_Francoise_Barre-Sinoussi.pdf" target="_blank">expressed</a> her dismay, saying: "It is thus with strong disappointment then that we are receiving the news announced yesterday that the Greek Ministry of Health is reintroducing compulsory HIV testing via detainment for female sex workers. As President of the IAS I strongly condemn this move and urge the Greek Government to re-think its position. HIV infections are already increasing in Greece due to the economic crisis and a<br />
mandatory policy of detainment and testing will only fuel the epidemic there."<br />
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<b>5. New Democracy and the far-right</b><br />
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Two prominent New Democracy officials caused a sensation this week with their statements about Golden Dawn. On Monday morning, MP and former Minister of Public Order Vyron Polydoras said in a radio interview, when asked if New Democracy should collaborate with Golden Dawn: “Of course it should. We got all sensitive about Golden Dawn, who got the votes of 600,000 people. They will get the voted of 1 million people, and we get reminiscent of the Weimar Republic Constitution. Do you even know the Weimar Constitution? Do you know it was the most advanced constitution between the two world wars ? Or in the history of constitutional law? Those who disagree should go and get a decision from the Supreme Court. Ask for the party to be made illegal, like Mr. Venizelos says. Is that even possible? Let’s calm down a bit and look at our issues and at our situation.” After coming under heavy criticism, Polydoras said that his statements had been distorted, and that his true purpose was to highlight the difference between Golden Dawn and the true danger, which in his view is the troika.<br />
A few days later, New Democracy MP and former deputy Minister of Labour Nikos Panagiotopoulos, also in a radio interview, said: “With regard to the Golden Dawn issue, I would like to emphasize the following: Golden Dawn is not a neo-Nazi party. It may be that its leadership espouses this ideology. But to me, its base, the people who orient themselves towards them, do it to protest the situation and not because of their Nazi ideology. I hope New Democracy are hearing this.”<br />
However, analyses conducted by sociologists and political scientists seem to belie this appraisal. In an extensive piece published this week in the Editors’ Newspaper, prominent pollster Yiannis Mavris underlined the role of the so-called centrist political parties in reinforcing Golden Dawn, notably by accepting and integrating the far-right in the mainstream political system when they chose to ask LAOS to join the Papademos coalition government in November 2011, and by legitimizing part of the far-right agenda with the massive sweep operation against immigrants which was launched last summer. Mavris notes that 71% of Golden Dawn voters voted for the party in both elections in 2012, and that only 27% described their vote as a protest vote, while the rest indicated that they agreed with the party, with a special focus on the issue of immigration. Mavris finally concludes that recent polls conducted by his company, Public Issue, find that, of an estimated 11.5% of Greeks who state their intention to vote for Golden Dawn, 3.7% constitute the party’s inner core, while 6.9% identify, more generally, with it. <br />
This is not the first time that New Democracy officials mention the possibility of a collaboration between New Democracy and Golden Dawn. Last spring during the elections campaign, the New Democracy campaign leader in northern Greece, Panagiotis Psomiadis, had listed Golden Dawn among the “sister parties” that New Democracy should collaborate with.<br />
A further worrying sign this week as New Democracy’s reaction to an opinion piece published by SYRIZA official Nasos Theodoridis in the newspaper Avgi. Theodoridis’ piece notes in no uncertain terms that Greek Roma and Jews face considerable hostility from Greek nationalists and lists a number of racist incidents against these two communities in recent and no-so-recent history. The New Democracy press release does not seek in any way to address the issue of racism against Jews or Roma but focuses instead on claiming that SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras lied when he said that Theodoridis had been removed from his position on the SYRIZA committee for human rights, and that Theodoridis’s positions, including some controversial ones which are unrelated to the matter at hand, represent the official SYRIZA line.<br />
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<li>Kostas Sakkas entame son 33ème jour de grève de la faim après deux ans et sept mois d'emprisonnement sans procès </li>
<li>ERT demeure officiellement fermée pendant que le gouvernement grec propose une loi pour fonder une nouvelle agence, plus petite, de radiotélévision publique.</li>
<li>Les cas de violence raciste continuent de se multiplier, alors que le Réseau d'enregistrement des incidents de violence raciste publie une série de recommandations au Ministre de la Justice.</li>
<li>Le nouveau Ministre de la santé Adonis Georgiadis réétablit le décret scandaleux qui permet aux autorités sanitaires d'effectuer des examens médicaux forcés pour le virus du SIDA, provoquant un tollé international quelques jours après sa prise de fonctions</li>
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<b>1. Kostas Sakkas</b><br />
Kostas Sakkas a entamé aujourd'hui son 33ème jour de grève de la faim après deux ans, sept mois et trois jours de détention soi-disant "temporaire", sans procès, à la suite de son arrestation à Athènes le 4 décembre 2010. Sakkas est accusé de possession illégale d'armes à feu et de participation au groupe terroriste "Conspiration des cellules de feu." La prolongation de sa période de détention temporaire de 18 mois à deux ans et demi, et plus récemment à un total de trois ans, a été largement condamnée en Grèce comme abusive et illégale, car son procès n'a pas encore eu lieu.<br />
Un <a href="https://twitter.com/northaura/status/353107542190215168/photo/1" target="_blank">examen médical</a> de Sakkas lors du 31ème jour de sa grève de la faim conclut que, ayant perdu 13kg ou plus de 15% de son poids d'origine, il est déjà au-delà de la limite de perte de poids cnsidérée acceptable pour sa santé, et qu'il risque déjà de subir des dommages irréversibles à des fonctions corporelles clés, alors que le fait de poursuivre sa grève de la faim "conduira à une mort certaine".<br />
Le Mouvement pour les libertés et les droits démocratiques de notre temps a lancé le 4 juillet une <a href="http://ekedde.wordpress.com/2013/07/04/protsakk/" target="_blank">pétition</a> pour demander la libération de Sakkas, et a collecté des centaines de signatures dès les premières 24 heures. Pendant ce temps, le <a href="http://www.enet.gr/?i=news.el.article&id=372780" target="_blank">vice-procureur Ioannis Moraitakis</a>, dont les recommandations ont conduit à la dernière prolongation de six mois de l'emprisonnement de Sakkas, a proposé au Conseil des magistrats des cours d'appel de rejeter sa demande de libération. La décision du Conseil doit être émise dans les jours qui viennent.<br />
Une manifestation a eu lieu vendredi soir devant l'hôpital général de Nikaia, où Sakkas est hospitalisé, pour exiger sa libération. Une autre manifestation aura lieu lundi devant la cour d'appel d'Athènes.<br />
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<b>2. Fermeture de ERT (suite)</b><br />
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La radiotélévision publique grecque ERT demeure officiellement exclue des ondes pour le 25ème jour d'affilée à la suite de la décision abrupte du gouvernement de la fermer le soir du mardi 11 juin. De plus, le gouvernement continue à ignorer deux décisions du Conseil d'Etat, qui a ordonné la reprise immédiate de la diffusion. Le personnel de ERT continue à diffuser à travers un livestream sur internet qui est ensuite repris et rediffusé par satellite avec l'aide de l'UER, et les chaînes de ERT demeurent accessibles à la plupart des Grecs sur des fréquences hertziennes. Cependant, le gouvernement continue à chercher à les fermer, par exemple en envoyant des policiers et des techniciens du secteur privé, qui sont entrés dans le centre de transmission de ERT dans les monts Gerania à l'ouest d'Athènes pour couper le signal, ce qui a laissé le sud-ouest de l'Attique et le nord du Péloponnèse sans accès à ERT.<br />
La question de la fermeture de ERT a été discutée cette semaine au <a href="http://tvxs.gr/news/%CE%B5%CE%BB%CE%BB%CE%AC%CE%B4%CE%B1/%CF%83%CF%84%CE%BF-%CE%B5%CF%85%CF%81%CF%89%CE%BA%CE%BF%CE%B9%CE%BD%CE%BF%CE%B2%CE%BF%CF%8D%CE%BB%CE%B9%CE%BF-%CF%84%CE%BF-%C2%AB%CE%BB%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%BA%CE%AD%CF%84%CE%BF%C2%BB-%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B7%CE%BD-%CE%B5%CF%81%CF%84" target="_blank">parlement européen</a>, où elle a attiré des critiques sévères de la part de la plupart des groupes politiques. Cependant, les représentants de la présidence lithuanienne et de la Commission européenne au parlement européen se sont abstenus de tout commentaire et ont insisté sur le fait que c'est une question intérieure à la Grèce. Les nouvelles des negociations entre le gouvernement grec et la troika constituée de l'Union européenne, la BCE et le FMI semblent néanmoins démentir cette affirmation et <a href="http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_02/07/2013_507082" target="_blank">indiquent que</a> la reprise de la diffusion est empêchée en partie par le fait que les représentants de la troika refusent que le gouvernement recrute de nouveau 2000 employés de ERT pour une agence temporaire de radiotélévision publique.<br />
Jeudi soir, le gouvernement a soumis son <a href="http://www.hellenicparliament.gr/Nomothetiko-Ergo/Katatethenta-Nomosxedia?law_id=c72cf627-3ab6-4094-87e4-77e478225d99" target="_blank">projet de loi</a> pour une nouvelle agence de radiotélévision publique au parlement. It est intéressant de noter que ce projet de loi est signé par 7 ministres mais pas par le vice-ministre de la radiotélévision publique, Pantelis Kapsis. Le <a href="http://www.paron.gr/typologies/?p=32905" target="_blank">projet de loi</a> semble renforcer plutôt que réduire le contrôle gouvernemental sur la radiotélévision publique, dans la mesure où, entre autres, le comité de supervision sera nommé directement par le gouvernement. De plus, le projet de loi propose un capital initial de 5 millions d'euros sur le budget de l'Etat pour la nouvelle agence, à comparer avec les 240 millions d'euros du chiffre d'affaires de ERT. Enfin, le projet de loi n'explique en rien comment le gouvernement fera face au manque à gagner causé par la fermeture de ERT, qui est estimé à 300 millions d'euros <a href="http://www.ertopen.com/eidiseis-news/item/1129-pospert-dhmosiografoi-gia-to-nomoschedio-ths-nerit-9orthh-epanalhpsh#.UdahDvlM9gE" target="_blank">par les employés</a>.<br />
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Le Réseau d'enregistrement des actes de violence raciste, un groupe d'ONG et d'organisations des droits de l'Homme établi en 2011 à l'initiative de la Commission nationale des droits de l'Homme et géré par le Haut Commissariat aux réfugiés en Grèce, a émis le 27 juin un <a href="http://www.unhcr.gr/1againstracism/%CE%B4%CE%AF%CE%BA%CF%84%CF%85%CE%BF-%CE%BA%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%B1%CE%B3%CF%81%CE%B1%CF%86%CE%AE%CF%82-%CF%80%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%B9%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%8E%CE%BD-%CF%81%CE%B1%CF%84%CF%83-4/" target="_blank">ensemble de recommandations</a> adressé au nouveau ministre de la justice, Charalambos Athanasiou. Les deux axes principaux de leurs recommendations portent sur la protection des victimes et des témoins d'actes de violence raciste et sur la nécessité d'enquêter sur les motivations racistes durant l'instruction de tels cas. Il est légitime de douter du fait que M. Athanasiou prendra en compte ces recommandations étant données ses déclarations par le passé sur l'état du cadre légal sur la question ainsi que sur son attitude plutôt xénophobe envers les immigrés.<br />
On a signalé plusieurs attaques menées par des membres de l'Aube dorée cette semaine, contre des immigrés mais aussi contre des ennemis politiques, <a href="http://left.gr/news/kataggelia-dolofoniki-epithesi-hrysaygiton-stin-korintho" target="_blank">par exemple</a> une agression vendredi dernier par environ 10 membres de l'Aube dorée contre deux antifascistes connus à Corinthe. De plus, le Mouvement contre le racisme et la menace fasciste a signalé un nouveau cas de violence raciste impliquant des policiers après avoir visité le centre de détention de l'aéroport international d'Athènes, où sont détenus des immigrés en voie de déportation. Le Mouvement a entendu des <a href="http://www.avgi.gr/article/548543/basanismoi-metanaston-me-reuma-se-gennitika-organa-sto-aerodromio-el-benizelos" target="_blank">témoignages de détenus</a> qui donnent le frisson: les policiers les insultent, exigent des fellations, les battent et les torturent même par électrochoc sur les organes génitaux. Enfin, le dirigeant de l'Aube dorée Nikos Michaloliakos a comparé Giannis Antetokounmpo, un joueur de basket gréco-nigérian qui a été sélectionné cette semaine par les Milwaukee Bucks, à un chimpanzé, <a href="http://simonknowz.com/2013/07/03/golden-dawn-compares-bucks-antetokounmpo-chimpanzee/" target="_blank">disant</a>: "si vous donnez une banane et un drapeau à un chimpanzé au zoo, lui aussi peut être grec."<br />
Les autorités n'ont réagi à aucun de ces événements, même par une simple déclaration. La <a href="http://www.psak.gr/index.php?id=16,889,0,0,1,0" target="_blank">réprimande</a> la plus sévère envers Michaloliakos est venue de l'Union panhellénique des joueurs de basket professionels: "En insultant Giannis, vous insultez tous les basketteurs grecs. Malgré tous vos efforts, vous ne réussirez pas à pousser le monde des sports dans la jungle que vous cherchez à créer."<br />
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<b>4. Le décret de santé publique 39A</b><br />
Un des premiers actes du Ministre de la santé Adonis Georgiadis a été de <a href="http://actupathens.blogspot.gr/2013/07/39-dos.html" target="_blank">rétablir l'ordonnance</a> de santé publique 39A, qui avait été abolie par la précédente vice-ministre de la santé, Fotini Skopouli (Gauche démocratique), un mois plus tôt.<br />
L'<a href="http://www.enetenglish.gr/?i=news.en.article&id=1236&utm_source=EnetEnglish+general&utm_campaign=f40dd3215c-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_2d5bc1ed1e-f40dd3215c-26966345" target="_blank">ordonnance 39A</a> donne aux services médicaux publics l'autorité de forcer les gens à être testés pour les maladies contagieuses, avec une attention particulière pour les groupes à risque, tels que les travailleurs du sexe, les drogués et les immigrés. Ce ordonnance est l'oeuvre du ministre de la santé du PASOK Andreas Loverdos en 2012 et avait été utilisé alors pour faire une rafle de centaines de femmes avant les élections de mai 2012 et les soumettre à des tests forcés pour le virus du SIDA. Celles qui avaient été diagnostiquées séropositives avaient ensuite été accusées d'être des prostutiées et de chercher intentionnellement à diffuser le virus. Certaines d'entre elles ont passsé des mois entiers en prison avant qu'un tribunal ne les acquitte.<br />
Notre collaboratrice à Radiobubble, Zoe Mavroudi, prépare un documentaire vidéo au sujet de l'histoire de ces femmes, sous le titre "Ruines: Chrnonique d'une chasse aux sorcières séropositives", dont vous pouvez regarder la bande-annonce sur la page d'accueuil de notre site, <a href="http://radiobubble.gr/">radiobubble.gr</a><br />
La décision du ministre de la santé de rétablir l'ordonnance 39A a causé un tollé en Grèce et à l'étranger. 25 ONG Grecques ont signé une <a href="http://olkegr.blogspot.gr/2013/07/39.html" target="_blank">déclaration commune</a> condamnant cette décision, disant: "Nous ne pouvons pas accepter la mise en oeuvre de politiques qui nous renvoient au Moyen-Age." L'organisartion internationale Human Rights Watch a également <a href="http://www.hrw.org/node/116968" target="_blank">appelé</a> le gouvernment grec à annuler une ordonnance qui a été utilisée pour justifier les test froces pour le VIH tandis que la lauréate du prix Nobel de Médecine Françoise Barré-Sinoussi a exprimé son désarroi au vu de cette décision dans ses <a href="http://www.ias2013.org/WebContent/File/IAS2013_Closing_Session_Speech_Francoise_Barre-Sinoussi.pdf" target="_blank">remarques de clôture</a> du congrès de la Société internationale pour le SIDA à Kuala Lumpur.<br />
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En las noticias de #rbnews international de esta semana: </div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;">Después de dos años y siete meses de detención sin juicio, Kostas Sakkás lleva ya 33 días en huelga de hambre </li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Con la ERT aún cerrada, el gobierno griego está promoviendo un proyecto de ley para crear una nueva emisora nacional, de dimensiones inferiores. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">A raíz del aumento de incidentes racistas en Grecia, la Red de Grabación de Incidentes de Violencia Racista dio a conocer una serie de propuestas dirigidas al nuevo ministro de Justicia, </li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Promovido por el nuevo Ministro de salud, Ádonis Goergiadis, el gobierno retoma el decreto que obliga a las mujeres, en algunos casos prostitutas, a hacer una prueba del SIDA penalizando la enfermedad,lo que ha provocado una protesta internacional. </li>
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Kostas Sakkás entra hoy en su 33 º día de huelga de hambre después de dos años, siete meses y tres días de detención "temporal" sin juicio tras ser detenido en Atenas el 4 de diciembre de 2010. Sakkás está acusado de posesión ilegal de armas de fuego y de pertenencia a la organización terrorista "Conspiración de los Núcleos de Fuego". La extensión de la detención temporal de 18 meses a dos años y medio, en un inicio, y finalmente a un total de tres años, ha sido ampliamente condenada en Grecia por abusiva e ilegal, ya que el juicio aún no ha tenido lugar.</div>
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El examen médico que se realizó en su 31º día de huelga de hambre, concluye que, habiendo perdido 13 kilos, más del 15% de su peso original, Sakkás ha superado el límite máximo de pérdida de peso considerado "seguro" y que sus funciones corporales se encuentran en riesgo de daño irreversible. Además, asegura el informe que si continúa con la huelga de hambre, esto le provocará "una muerte segura".</div>
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El Movimiento de las Libertades y los Derechos Democráticos de Nuestro Tiempo lanzó este jueves 4 julio una petición para la liberación de Sakkás, y recogió cientos de firmas durante las primeras 24 horas. Mientras tanto, el jefe de la fiscalía, el diputado Ioannis Moraitakis, el mismo fiscal cuyas recomendaciones provocaron la última prórroga de seis meses del encarcelamiento de Sakkás, propuso al Consejo de la Magistratura de Apelaciones rechazar la solicitud de liberación de Sakkás. Se espera que el Consejo emita su decisión en los próximos días.</div>
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E viernes por la tarde tuvo lugar una protesta frente al Hospital General de Nikea, donde Sakkás se encuentra hospitalizado, para exigir su liberación. Se ha convocado otra protesta el lunes ante el tribunal de apelación de Atenas.</div>
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<a href="http://ekedde.wordpress.com/2013/07/04/protsakk/">http://ekedde.wordpress.com/2013/07/04/protsakk/</a><br />
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La cadena pública de Grecia, ERT lleva ya oficialmente fuera de antena 25 días consecutivos tras la abrupta decisión del gobierno de cerrarla la noche del martes 11 de junio. El gobierno ha ignorado, además, dos sentencias del Consejo de Estado que ordenaban la reanudación immediata de la radiodifusión. Los empleados de ERT prosiguen con las emisiones a través de internet, que después son retransmitidas por satélite con el apoyo de la Unión Europea de Radiodifusión, y los canales de ERT permanecen a disposición de la mayoría de los griegos en las frecuencias analógicas. Sin embargo, el gobierno sigue tomando medidas puntualmente con el fin de cortar su señal de manera definitiva. En uno de estos intentos, se envió una brigada de policías antidisturbios, junto con técnicos privados contratados, que irrumpieron en el centro de transmisión de ERT en las colinas Gerania al oeste de Atenas, y consiguieron cortar la señal temporalmente, dejando sureste Ática y el norte Peloponeso sin emisiones.</div>
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El cierre de ERT ha sido discutido esta semana pasada en el Parlamento Europeo. La mayoría de partidos políticos criticaron duramente la decisión del gobierno griego, pero los representantes de la Presidencia lituana y de la Comisión Europea en la eurocámara se abstuvieron de hacer comentarios, insistiendo en que era un asunto interno de Grecia. Sin embargo, los informes sobre las negociaciones en curso entre el gobierno griego y la troika, parecen indicar que la reanudación de las emisiones se ve obstaculizada precisamente por las reticencias de los representantes de la Troika a la contratación de 2.000 empleados, como propone el nuevo gobierno, para la creación de una agencia de radiodifusión pública provisional.</div>
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El jueves por la tarde, el gobierno presentó ante el Parlamento su proyecto de ley sobre un nuevo organismo público de radiodifusión. Curiosamente, el proyecto de ley está firmado por 7 ministros, pero no por Pantelis Kapsís, el viceministro a cargo de la cadena pública. El proyecto de ley propone además que la nueva agencia reciba una financiación pública inicial de 5 millones de euros, en contraposición a la facturación de 240 millones de euros que suponía ERT. Por último, el proyecto de ley no explica cómo el gobierno va a hacer frente a la pérdida de ingresos que ha supuesto el cierre de ERT, que las previsiones de sus empleados estiman en 300 millones de euros.</div>
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La Red de Grabación de Violencia Racista, un grupo de ONGs y organismos de derechos humanos establecido a finales de 2011 por iniciativa de la Comisión Nacional de Derechos Humanos y de la sede del ACNUR en Grecia, emitió una serie de recomendaciones para el nuevo Ministro de Justicia, Jarálambos Athanasiu, el pasado 27 de junio. Los dos argumentos principales de estas recomendaciones son, en primer lugar, garantizar una protección adecuada a las víctimas o testigos de actos de violencia racista y, por otra parte, asegurar que los motivos racistas son investigados durante el proceso penal. Sin embargo, teniendo en cuentas anteriores declaraciones del ministro a favor de un marco legal migratorio más restrictivo, así como su postura abiertamente xenófoba, no se prevé que el Sr. Athanasiu tome en consideración dichas recomendaciones.</div>
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Esta semana, además, se han denunciado varios casos de ataques de miembros de Aurora Dorada, no sólo por motivos racistas, sino también contra los opositores políticos. Es el caso de un asalto que tuvo lugar el pasado viernes por parte de unos 10 miembros de Aurora Dorada contra dos conocidos antifascistas en Corinto. Por otra parte, el Movimiento contra el Racismo y la Amenaza Fascista denunció otro caso de violencia racista, involucrando esta vez a las fuerzas del orden, después de una visita al centro de detención del aeropuerto internacional de Atenas, donde están recluidos los inmigrantes que deben ser expulsados. El Movimiento reveló las declaraciones de testimonios de los detenidos, que denuncian haber sufrido insultos, vejaciones, humillaciones, abusos sexuales, palizas e incluso torturas, con la conexión de aparatos eléctricos en sus zonas genitales, por parte de la policía. </div>
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Por último, el líder de Aurora Dorada, Nikos Mijaloliakos, comparó a Yiannis Antetokunmpo, un jugador griego-nigeriano de baloncesto y numero 15 del draft de este año elegido por los Milwaukee Bucks, con un chimpancé, diciendo: “si en el zoo se le da un chimpancé un plátano y una bandera también será "griego"", haciendo referencia al hecho que Antentokunmpo levantó la bandera griega cuando se escuchó su nombre al evento de NBA draft. </div>
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Las autoridades no reaccionaron ante ninguno de estos acontecimientos, ni siquiera mediante un comunicado. La crítica más dura a Mijaloliakos fue de parte de la Unión Griega de jugadores profesionales de baloncesto: "Insultando a Yiannis, estás insultando a todos los jugadores de baloncesto griego. Por mucho que lo intentes, no vas a convertir los deportes en la selva que estás tratando de crear".</div>
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<a href="http://left.gr/news/kataggelia-dolofoniki-epithesi-hrysaygiton-stin-korintho">http://left.gr/news/kataggelia-dolofoniki-epithesi-hrysaygiton-stin-korintho</a> <br />
<a href="http://www.avgi.gr/article/548543/basanismoi-metanaston-me-reuma-se-gennitika-organa-sto-aerodromio-el-benizelos">http://www.avgi.gr/article/548543/basanismoi-metanaston-me-reuma-se-gennitika-organa-sto-aerodromio-el-benizelos</a><br />
<a href="http://simonknowz.com/2013/07/03/golden-dawn-compares-bucks-antetokounmpo-chimpanzee/">http://simonknowz.com/2013/07/03/golden-dawn-compares-bucks-antetokounmpo-chimpanzee/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.psak.gr/index.php?id=16,889,0,0,1,0">http://www.psak.gr/index.php?id=16,889,0,0,1,0</a> )<br />
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<b>4. Sanidad pública decreto 39A</b></div>
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Uno de los primeros actos del nuevo Ministro de Salud Ádonis Georgiadis, después de asumir el cargo la semana pasada, fue el de de restablecer el decreto de sanidad pública 39A, que había sido abolido por su predecesor de Izquierda Democrática, F. Skopulis, hace apenas un mes.</div>
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El decreto 39A otorga a los servicios de salud públicos la autoridad para realizar pruebas forzosas de enfermedades contagiosas a personas, con un enfoque específico sobre los grupos de población de alto riesgo, como los trabajadores del sexo, usuarios de drogas inyectables y los inmigrantes. Fue una idea original del ministro de Salud del PASOK, Andreas Loverdos, en 2012 y fue utilizado notoriamente para hacer pruebas forzosas de VIH a cientos de mujeres una semana antes de las elecciones generales de mayo de 2012. Las mujeres que tuvieron un resultado positivo en estas pruebas fueron acusadas de prostitución y de tratar de difundir el virus de manera intencionada, y algunas de ellas pasaron meses en la cárcel antes de que un tribunal las declarase inocentes. Zoe Mavroudi, de Radiobubble, está preparando un documental sobre la historia de estas mujeres, titulado "Ruinas", cuyo trailer se puede ver en en siguiente enlace:</div>
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<a href="http://www.radiobubble.gr/2013/06/ruins-chronicle-of-hiv-witch-hunt-new.html">http://www.radiobubble.gr/2013/06/ruins-chronicle-of-hiv-witch-hunt-new.html</a></div>
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La decisión del Ministro de restablecer el decreto 39A provocó una protesta pública en Grecia y en el extranjero. 25 ONGs griegas firmaron una declaración conjunta condenando la decisión: "No podemos permitir la aplicación de políticas que nos llevan de vuelta a la Edad Media." Human Rights Watch también instó al gobierno griego a "derogar un reglamento que se ha utilizado para justificar las pruebas obligatorias del VIH", mientras que la premio Nobel, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, expresó su consternación por la decisión del Gobierno en su discurso de clausura de la Conferencia Internacional de la sociedad de SIDA en Kuala Lumpur.</div>
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Fuentes</div>
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<a href="http://www.enetenglish.gr/?i=news.en.article&id=1236&utm_source=EnetEnglish+general&utm_campaign=f40dd3215c-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_2d5bc1ed1e-f40dd3215c-26966345">http://www.enetenglish.gr/?i=news.en.article&id=1236&utm_source=EnetEnglish+general&utm_campaign=f40dd3215c-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_2d5bc1ed1e-f40dd3215c-26966345</a> <a href="http://olkegr.blogspot.gr/2013/07/39.html">http://olkegr.blogspot.gr/2013/07/39.html</a> <br />
<a href="http://www.hrw.org/node/116968">http://www.hrw.org/node/116968</a> <br />
<a href="http://www.ias2013.org/WebContent/File/IAS2013_Closing_Session_Speech_Francoise_Barre-Sinoussi.pdf">http://www.ias2013.org/WebContent/File/IAS2013_Closing_Session_Speech_Francoise_Barre-Sinoussi.pdf</a></div>
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mpatmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11614716647675342739noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2484141008782526310.post-60523856819863879472013-07-07T15:05:00.000+03:002013-07-07T15:31:01.999+03:00Reinstatement of controversial Health Provision slammed by HIV and Human Rights Groups<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
legal provision that led to mass arrests of HIV-positive women in
Greece in 2012 has been reinstated, causing widespread condemnation
by local and international organizations and human rights advocates.</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Provision
No 39A was voted by former socialist Health Minister Andreas Loverdos
in April 2012 and led to an unprecedented case of HIV criminalization
a few weeks later when the Greek police in cooperation with the
country’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention, KEELPNO,
rounded up hundreds of women from the center of Athens and
force-tested them for HIV inside police stations. </span></span><br />
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<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
total of 30 who tested positive were imprisoned on charges of felony
and prostitution, in spite of a lack of significant evidence that
they had been working as prostitutes or that they had infected anyone
with the virus. Their mug-shots and personal data were then published
upon order by a prosecutor on the Greek police website as well as on
major TV channels.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
arrests prompted an international backlash against the Greek
government when organizations like Amnesty International, Human
Rights Watch, the European AIDS Treatment Group and UNAIDS called for
the withdrawal of laws that enabled the targeting of HIV-positive
people labeling them unproductive and in violation of international
conventions.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
women were held in prison for a months-long detention period under
inhumane conditions. The charges have since been dropped or reduced
in the courts. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">After
months of negotiations following Loverdos’ exit from the government
and socialist PASOK party, non-governmental organizations and
activist groups in Greece scored a victory in May 2013, when former
Deputy Health Minister Foteini Skopouli finally repealed the
provision. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
move was welcomed as a step toward correcting the damage inflicted on
the country’s medical services by the 2012 arrests. Drug
rehabilitation groups, which have been hit hard by austerity cuts,
have repeatedly complained that the arrests had serious implications
in the exercise of their outreach work among vulnerable groups.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But
last Tuesday, newly-appointed health minister Adonis Georgiadis (pictured above),
formerly a member of the far-right LAOS partly and currently a New
Democracy majority party MP, reinstated the provision unexpectedly,
the day after his swearing-in ceremony that followed a cabinet
reshuffle of the country’s coalition government. In a short
announcement, KEELPNO welcomed the reinstatement citing a necessity
to “cover the country” until revisions to the provision were
agreed on. Georgiadis addressed the reinstatement on twitter, saying
the repeal by Skopouli had left a “legal void.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But
the legal grounds upon which the provision was voted into law were
questionable. Last year, Loverdos signed 39A alone, in spite of a
legal requirement for a minimum of four official signatures in order
for a provision to be enacted into law. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">At
the time, he claimed that its content had originated in a 1940
regulation, which allowed for sanitation measures in public places
for the protection of public health. However, new language included
in 39A, pointed at immigrants, homeless people, intravenous drug
users and sex workers as possible sources of epidemics. 39A also
cited a need to perform mandatory tests on individuals from these
groups as part of controlling diseases that are currently not endemic
in Greece, such as malaria, polio and sexually transmitted diseases,
including HIV. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Greece
has seen a spike in HIV infections among injecting drug users during
the crisis, mostly in the country’s capital, although there is no
official data on a significant rise among sex workers or undocumented
immigrants. Men who have sex with men remain the main population
group that suffers most of the country’s new HIV infections. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
spite of citing a need for mandatory testing, the provision is also
unclear about the nature of measures that the police and health
authorities should take in order to test individuals without their
informed consent. A law-suit has been brought by some of the women
arrested in 2012 and by Greek NGOs against police officers present in
the arrests as well as KEELPNO doctors for sharing test results with
the police and violating patient confidentiality.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Calls
to take back the measure came from abroad almost immediately after
the reinstatement was announced. In her closing speech at the annual
convention of the International Aids Society in Kuala Lumpur on
Wednesday, French Nobelist </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Françoise
Barré-Sinoussi</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">,
the scientist accredited with co-discovering the HIV virus, expressed
her “</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">strong
disappointment.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">”
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“<span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As
President of the IAS I strongly condemn this move and urge the Greek
Government to rethink its position. HIV infections are already
increasing in Greece due to the economic crisis and a mandatory
policy of detainment and testing will only fuel the epidemic there.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">”
</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Barré-Sinoussi</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
added: “</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As we
keep repeating over the years, there will be no end to the HIV
epidemic without advancing Human rights in parallel.” </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sinoussi’s
concerns were echoed in a damning <a href="http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/07/03/greece-repeal-abusive-health-regulation" target="_blank">announcement</a> by Human Rights Watch,
which called the reinstatement “a big step backward for human
rights and public health.“</span></span></div>
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“<span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Addressing
infectious diseases such as HIV, hepatitis, and tuberculosis requires
investing in health services, not calling the police. If the
government is serious about addressing HIV and other infectious
diseases, it should focus on access to health care and public
information,” wrote HRW in a statement earlier this week. “Any
detention for public health reasons must have a lawful basis, be
demonstrably necessary and proportionate, and be nondiscriminatory.
Anyone detained, irrespective of the grounds, is entitled to
guarantees of due process.”<br /><br /><br />On their part, local Greek
NGOs and human rights initiatives saw the reinstatement as a betrayal
of their year-long battle for its repeal. HIV NGOs and LGBT and human
rights initiatives chided the new leadership in a joint statement,
for ignoring the unanimous decision that prompted its repeal as well
as the recent report by the Greek Ombudsman citing the provision’s
unconstitutionality.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“We
cannot allow the implementation of practices that lead our society to
the Middle Ages,” the <a href="http://positivevoicegr.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/39.html" target="_blank">statement</a> by Positive
Voice, Center for Life and Praksis, among other groups, said. “Access
to free and public health services, access to medical coverage and a
respect for human rights are non-negotiable for us. Since the
leadership of the Health Ministry obviously does not share this view,
we have a responsibility to make it clear with our actions.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Protests
against the reinstatement of 39A are continuing with a gathering
outside the Ministry of Health in Athens tomorrow.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
new documentary produced by radiobubble about the 2012 arrests called “Ruins: Chronicle of
an HIV witch-hunt,” is due for release this September. It features
interviews by women who were arrested and their families. You can
watch a trailer here: </span></span></div>
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Pexlihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15580365841675314016noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2484141008782526310.post-77421210307131254592013-07-01T18:39:00.001+03:002013-07-01T18:40:14.807+03:00Wekelijks bulletin uit Griekenland 29 juni 2013 #19<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>Deze week in het nieuws bij rbnews international:</b><br />
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<li>Na de verlenging van zijn onrechtmatige, 30 maanden durende voorlopige hechtenis met nog eens 6 maanden, is de anarchist Kostas Sakkas zijn 25ste dag van hongerstaking ingegaan om zo zijn vrijlating af te dwingen.</li>
<li>Een week na het besluit van de Raad van State om de onmiddellijke heropening van ERT te verordenen, is de publieke omroep nog steeds niet via de publieke frequenties te ontvangen.</li>
<li>Volgens de besluiten van de trojka en de Griekse regering zullen 12.500 ambtenaren uiterlijk op 8 juli op non-actief moeten worden gesteld. - Steeds meer ontslagen en sluitingen van grote ondernemingen; de werkloosheid neemt toe terwijl de rechten van de werknemers worden omzeild.</li>
<li>De leidster van de Canadese Groene Partij was getuige van de methoden die Eldorado Gold toepast in Skouries op het schiereiland Chalkidiki.</li>
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<a name='more'></a><b>1. Kostas Sakkas in hongerstakking</b><br />
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De anarchist <a href="http://www.efsyn.gr/?p=56863%20+%20in%20English:%20http://international.radiobubble.gr/2013/06/kostas-sakkas-three-years-on-remand-in.html">Kostas Sakkas</a> is op 4 juni 2013 in de gevangenis in hongerstaking gegaan. Zijn behandeling in de gevangenis is er niet beter op geworden, maar hij slaagde er wel in om bij het grote publiek aandacht te vragen voor zijn oneerlijke processen en willekeurige detentie. Sakkas is op 4 december 2010 - dat is 30 maanden geleden - opgepakt en wordt al die tijd vastgehouden zonder enige officiële beschuldiging en vorm van proces. <br />
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Kostas Sakkas werd gearresteerd in Athene toen hij een opslagplaats verliet waar wapens zijn gevonden. Hij wordt beschuldigd van illegaal wapenbezit en in eerste instantie voor deelname aan een onbekende terreurgroep. De verdenking dat hij deel uitmaakte van de organisatie die luistert naar de naam "Samenzwering van de Cellen van het Vuur" werd in een latere fase aan de oorspronkelijke aanklacht toegevoegd en terwijl zijn naam niet eens voorkomt in de tenlastelegging tegen de activiteiten van deze specifieke organisatie waartegen nu ook een proces loopt. Deze dubbele aanklacht heeft Sakkas een 18 maanden voorlopige hechtenis opgeleverd, het maximum dat volgens de Griekse wet is toegestaan. Echter, twee maanden voor het einde van deze wettelijk toegestane maximumperiode van voorlopige hechtenis, en voordat zijn proces nog was begonnen, werd hij opnieuw aangeklaagd voor hetzelfde delict ditmaal in verband met de vermeende deelname aan de "Samenzwering van de Cellen van Vuur". Hiervoor kreeg hij nog een jaar voorlopige hechtenis, waardoor zijn totale voorarrest op 28 maanden kwam. Zijn advocaten hebben de rechtmatigheid van een nieuwe aanklacht op grond van dezelfde feiten aangevochten, maar zonder resultaat.<br />
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Het <a href="http://left.gr/news/syriza-ekm-paranomi-kai-exontotiki-i-kratisi-toy-kosta-sakka">proces </a>voor de nieuwe aanklacht is nog niet eens begonnen, maar de Raad van Hoger Beroep besliste onlangs om zijn tweede detentie met nog eens 6 maanden te verlengen. Dit is in strijd met het Wetboek van Strafrecht dat uitdrukkelijk stelt dat een tweede voorlopige hechtenis de periode van een jaar niet mag overschrijden. Als gevolg hiervan, zal Sakkas een totaal van 3 jaar in de gevangenis hebben doorgebracht zonder proces, ondanks het feit dat dit in strijd is met de Griekse wet, de Griekse grondwet en het Europees Verdrag voor de Rechten van de Mens. Sakkas is op 4 juni in hongerstaking gegaan om te protesteren tegen de laatste verlenging van zijn detentie periode. Zijn gezondheidstoestand verslechtert snel en hij is inmiddels overgebracht naar het ziekenhuis in Nikaia (voorstad van Piraeus).<br />
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Oppositiepartij Syriza heeft de kwestie van Sakkas aan de orde gesteld in het parlement, en noemde de langdurige detentieperiode een "geval van rechterlijke willekeur." De reactie van de overheid, zoals verwoord in het persbericht dat werd uitgegeven door de grootste coalitiepartij <a href="http://www.nd.gr/web//press-office/press/-/journal_content/56_INSTANCE_Rb5c/12001/1113379">Nieuwe Democratie</a>, is zeer verontrustend. Het roept Syriza op te "stoppen met het ondersteunen van een ieder die wordt beschuldigd van anarchie en terrorisme." De implicatie dat een politieke mening, zoals anarchie, gekwalificeerd kan worden als grond voor juridische beschuldigingen veroorzaakte veel publieke verontwaardiging. Nieuwe Democratie heeft haar verklaring echter niet ingetrokken.<br />
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Gedurende de hele week werden verschillende acties georganiseerd op social media om Sakkas' vrijlating te eisen. Zijn verdediging hield een persconferentie op donderdag 27 juni waarop zijn zaak gepresenteerd werd. Eveneens werd er een solidariteitsmanfestatie gepland voor zaterdagochtend 29 juni.<br />
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<b>2. Sluiting ERT voortgezet</b><br />
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Een week nadat de Raad van State besloot dat de uitzendingen van <a href="http://lefteria-news.blogspot.gr/2013/06/24-26-600.html?spref=tw">ERT</a> onmiddellijk hervat moesten worden, is de Griekse openbare omroep nog steeds uit de lucht. De uitspraak van de RvS volgde de beslissing van de regering op 10 juni om ERT met onmiddellijke ingang uit de lucht te halen. ERT medewerkers bezetten nog steeds het hoofdkantoor in Athene en maken piraatuitzendingen met de hulp van de EBU, die de programma’s via livestreaming op hun website plaatste en ze per satelliet opnieuw uitzendt. De EBU heeft deze week de ERT in staat gesteld om haar kijkers live-sportevenementen aan te bieden. Ook regionale ERT-kantoren zijn nog steeds bezet door het personeel en ERT radio en televisie zijn in het grootste deel van het land te ontvangen, zij het op soms zwakke analoge frequenties die voortdurend veranderen. Volgens cijfers die begin deze week bekend werden, heeft de ERT online meer dan 4 miljoen unieke kijkers bereikt.<br />
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ERT medewerkers hielden deze week een reeks persconferenties om de manier waarop de regering de organisatie bestuurt aan de kaak te stellen. Zo bleek bijvoorbeeld dat 26 personen die na inmenging van de regering werden aangeworven als adviseurs van de ERT net zo veel verdienen als de 661 journalisten van de organisatie bij elkaar. Bovendien maakten de ERT-medewerkers bekend dat de Griekse Staat meer dan € 300 miljoen euro zal verliezen door de abrupte sluiting van ERT, vanwege de kosten van de ontslagvergoedingen voor het personeel, de schending van contracten voor het uitzenden van grote internationale sportevenementen en verlies van gemaakte investeringen voor digitale uitzendapparatuur die door ERT werd aangeschaft om deel te kunnen nemen aan de aanbesteding voor de selectie van een digitaal netwerk provider, waarvan de opening op 30 juni was gepland.<br />
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Ook werden er deze week solidariteitsdemonstraties vóór de ERT hoofdkantoren georganiseerd, alsmede concerten en andere culturele evenementen door de muziekensembles van de ERT. Een vergadering van tientallen vakbonden en vertegenwoordigers van de vakbonden die op 25 juni plaatsvond bij de ERT werd ingestemd met een motie om de strijd van de ERT medewerkers te blijven steunen. De vergadering riep andere werknemersfederaties op om hun steun te betuigen en vakbondsacties te organiseren.<br />
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Het Ministerie van Financiën maakte gedeeltelijke ontslagvergoedingen over naar bankrekeningen van ERT werknemers, in een poging zo het ontslag van de werknemers te formaliseren. Minister van Financiën Yiannis Stournaras benadrukt echter dat het personeel de ERT gebouwen moet ontruimen voordat de betalingen kunnen worden afgerond, waarbij hij beweert dat het ministerie daarvoor toegang moet kunnen krijgen tot de archieven. Verder kregen de ERT medewerkers per post van Gikas Manelis (de speciaal benoemde bewindvoerder voor de liquidatie van de ERT) te horen dat hun contracten werden beëindigd. De brieven die verstuurd werden droegen echter niet het officiële stempel van het ministerie of de handtekening van de minister.<br />
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De sluiting van de ERT veroorzaakte Griekenland's grootste politieke crisis sinds de verkiezingen van 2012 en resulteerde in het vertrek van Democratische Links uit de regeringscoalitie. Een blik op de daaropvolgende herschikking van het kabinet laat zien dat PASOK, met 11 ministers of staatssecretarissen, een overheidsvertegenwoordiging heeft gekregen die ver boven zijn parlementaire of electorale macht uitkomt, terwijl de algemene tendens van de tweepartijen coalitieregering duidelijk naar rechts is verschoven. Politiek commentator Pantelis Kapsis, die in 2011-2012 woordvoerder was van de regering Papademos en die nauwe banden heeft met de particuliere tv-zender Mega en de Lambrakis Media Group, werd benoemd tot adjunct-minister belast met de publieke omroep.<br />
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<b>3. 12.500 ambtenaren op non-actief gesteld</b><br />
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Een ander direct gevolg van de kabinetsherschikking is dat twee amendementen van de ministeries van Onderwijs en Binnenlandse Zaken, waarin gevraagd wordt om <a href="http://www.alfavita.gr/arthra/%CF%83%CE%B5-%CE%B4%CE%B9%CE%B1%CE%B8%CE%B5%CF%83%CE%B9%CE%BC%CF%8C%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%84%CE%B1-8000-%CE%B5%CE%BA%CF%80%CE%B1%CE%B9%CE%B4%CE%B5%CF%85%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%BF%CE%AF-%CE%B8%CE%B5%CE%BF%CE%BB%CF%8C%CE%B3%CE%BF%CE%B9-%CE%B3%CF%85%CE%BC%CE%BD%CE%B1%CF%83%CF%84%CE%AD%CF%82-%CE%BA%CE%B1%CE%B8%CE%B7%CE%B3%CE%B7%CF%84%CE%AD%CF%82-%CF%80%CE%BB%CE%B7%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%86%CE%BF%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%AE%CF%82#ixzz2XIz1BAga">12.500 ambtenaren</a> onmiddellijk op non-actief te stellen, weer op tafel ligt. Dit voorstel was eerder verworpen door de minister van administratieve hervorming, Antonis Manitakis.<br />
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Deze 12.500 ambtenaren zijn docenten in het middelbaar onderwijs en gemeenteambtenaren. Onder druk van de trojka, die deze maatregel naar verluidt als voorwaarde stelt voor de uitbetaling van de volgende bailout tranche van 8.1 mld., zullen de voornoemde ontslagen uiterlijk op 8 juli moeten zijn geëffectueerd. Het personeel dat op non-actief zal worden gesteld, zal een jaar lang 75% van zijn salaris krijgen uitbetaald. Daarna moeten ze de betreffende werknemers elders in het ambtenarenapparaat worden geplaatst of worden ontslagen.<br />
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<b>4. Vakbondsacties in de particuliere sector en de problemen met arbeidsrechten</b><br />
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De ILO (International Labour Organization) hield op 25 juni een workshop over mogelijk beleid voor <a href="http://left.gr/news/nea-diethnis-katadiki-gia-tin-ellada-ton-mnimonion-kai-resital-ypokrisias-apo-toys">werkloosheidsbestrijding</a> in Griekenland. Deze workshop kwam tien dagen nadat de ILO Griekenland veroordeeld had voor meerdere schendingen van <a href="https://left.gr/news/ptoheyse-i-etairia-katselis-sto-dromo-1000-ergazomenoi">arbeidsrechten</a>.<br />
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De <a href="http://98.130.42.167/istoriki.asp">werkloosheid </a>in het land laat geen tekenen zien van verbetering. Deze week werd gemeld dat de Nutriart Groep - eigenaar van de oudste onderneming van Griekenland, Allatini, die werd opgericht in 1802- faillissement heeft aangevraagd. Hierdoor komen 1000 mensen zonder werk te zitten, terwijl ze ook geen ontslagvergoeding zullen ontvangen. Een ander voorbeeld van problematische ontslagen doet zich voor bij AGET-Iraklis, een bedrijf dat eigendom is van Lafarge. De beslissing van de onderneming om 229 medewerkers collectief te ontslaan werd vernietigd door het <a href="http://www.alfavita.gr/arthra/%CF%80%CE%BF%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%82-%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%BF%CE%AF%CE%B3%CE%B5%CE%B9-%CF%84%CE%BF-%CE%B8%CE%AD%CE%BC%CE%B1-%CF%84%CF%89%CE%BD-%CE%BF%CE%BC%CE%B1%CE%B4%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%8E%CE%BD-%CE%B1%CF%80%CE%BF%CE%BB%CF%8D%CF%83%CE%B5%CF%89%CE%BD-%CE%B7-%CF%80%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%AF%CF%80%CF%84%CF%89%CF%83%CE%B7-%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%82-%CE%B1%CE%B3%CE%B5%CF%84-%CE%B7%CF%81%CE%B1%CE%BA%CE%BB%CE%AE%CF%82">ministerie van Werkgelegenheid</a>. AGET bracht de zaak echter voor de Raad van State, als een typisch voorbeeld van een bedrijf uit de privé-sector corporatie dat wenst dat alle werknemersrechten rond ontslagen worden omzeild.<br />
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<b>6. Skouries</b><br />
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De leidster en parlementslid van de Canadese Groene Partij, Elizabeth May, maakte uit de eerste hand <a href="http://elizabethmaymp.ca/news/publications/press-releases/2013/06/23/green-leader-to-investigate-controversial-canadian-mines-in-greece/">kennis </a>met de door Hellas Gold gebruikte methoden toen ze een poging deed om de Skouries bouwplaats te bezoeken in het noordoosten van Chalkidiki. May was in Griekenland op uitnodiging van de Griekse Groene Partij.<br />
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De Canadese MP werd op haar weg naar de <a href="http://www.enet.gr/?i=news.el.article&id=371372">Skouries </a>bouwplaats vergezeld door een groep bewoners die zich verzetten tegen het mijnbouwproject. Onderweg bleek dat de weg werd geblokkeerd door een bedrijfsbulldozer die de weg aan het afgraven was om zo de toegang naar het gebied te voorkomen. May uitte haar woede uit tegen vertegenwoordigers van Eldorado Gold, het in Canada gevestigde moederbedrijf van Ellinikos Chrysos, dat haar had verteld dat een grote meerderheid van de bewoners van het gebied voordeel heeft van het mijnbouwproject:. "Het bedrijf heeft tegen me gelogen in Canada. Het bedrijf verzekerde me dat de inwoners van <a href="http://www.enet.gr/?i=news.el.ellada&id=371258">Chalkidiki </a>en Thracië de goudwinning steunden, maar ik heb net het tegenovergestelde gezien. Eldorado Gold's CEO Paul Wright is een grote leugenaar”. Elizabeth May heeft toegezegd de strijd van de bewoners tegen de mijnbouw op alle mogelijke manieren te ondersteunen.<br />
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<b>7. De foto-tentoonstelling "News Under Persecution" in het Europees Parlement</b><br />
"<a href="http://www.kar.org.gr/?p=23025">News Under Persecution</a>" is een tentoonstelling over politiegeweld tegen fotojournalisten in Griekenland, die uiteindelijk op 25 juni toch plaats vond in het Europees Parlement, na eerder deze maand op het laatste moment te zijn afgelast. De tentoonstelling werden georganiseerd tijdens een open discussie tussen Europarlementsleden van verschillende politieke partijen. De discussie draaide rond de noodzaak de mensenrechten in Europa tijdens de huidige economische en financiële crisis goed in de gaten te blijven houden en te beschermen. De voorzitter van de vakbond van Griekse Fotojournalisten, Marios Lolos, benadrukte dat politiegeweld slechts een van de vormen van geweld is tegen fotojournalisten, een beroepsgroep die ook geconfronteerd wordt met andere crisisgerelateerde fenomenen, zoals censuur en zelfcensuur en een hoog werkloosheidspercentage. De voorzitter van de Sociaaldemocratische fractie in het Europarlement, Hannes Swoboda, sloot de dag met de opmerking dat evenementen zoals deze tentoonstelling niet moeten worden gezien als acties die gericht zijn tegen Griekenland, maar als evenementen ter ondersteuning van Griekenland als een vrij en democratisch land.</div>
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<b>As notícias da #rbnews desta semana</b><br />
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<li>Em uma surpreendente decisão, o governo grego decidiu fechar a rede pública de rádio e TV ERT, na terça-feira passada. Os trabalhadores imediatamente ocuparam a sede da rede, que continua até hoje. Enquanto isso, o apoio e a solidariedade de cidadãos gregos e das associações de jornalistas e meios de comunicação no exterior aumenta.</li>
<li>O julgamento de Kostas Vaxevanis no caso da lista Lagarde foi adiado para outubro.</li>
<li>A maioria dos postos de trabalho que serão criados pela companhia Ouro Grego em Skuriés serão subsidiados pelo Estado</li>
<li>O objetor de consciência Nikos Karanikas foi preso novamente.</li>
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<b>1. O fechamento da rede pública de rádio e TV (ERT)</b><br />
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A decisão do governo de fechar a ERT tomada na madrugada de terça-feira provocou indignação nacional e internacional, e gerou graves tensões entre os três partidos da coalizão governista. Um grande movimento de protesto e solidariedade, tanto na Grécia como no exterior, foi coberto de maneira ampla pelos meios de comunicação internacionais.<br />
Mesmo assim, há dois fatos que não receberam atenção suficiente: em primeiro lugar, o procedimento que levou ao fechamento da ERT, e em segundo as seguidas tentativas do governo de silenciar qualquer forma de oposição ao fechamento.<br />
Na terça pela manhã o governo emitiu um ato legislativo, procedimento usado em casos de emergência extrema, que permite aos ministros aprovar novas leis sem necessidade de aprovação parlamentar. O ato estabelece que, a partir de agora, os ministros do governo tem a autoridade para fechar órgãos públicos e despedir funcionários com uma simples decisão. <br />
Logo em seguida à publicação do ato, um decreto ordenava o fechamento da ERT à meia-noite. O governo alega que essas decisões são razoáveis, devido à extrema urgência financeira que enfrenta a Grécia. No entanto, a alegação é bastante questionável.<br />
Assim que o sinal da ERT foi cortado, funcionários decidiram resistir, ocupar a sede e continuar a transmissão. Foi quando o governo e, em particular o ministro de Finanças, Yannis Stournaras, começaram a intimidas e ameaçar diretamente os funcionários e outros meios de comunicação que, por solidariedade, decidiram retransmitir clandestinamente o sinal da ERT. <br />
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Nessa mesma noite, o escritório de Stournaras enviou um e-mail a todos os meios de comunicação notificando que qualquer retransmissão com o logo da ERT seria considerado ilegal.<br />
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Também causou polêmica e muitos questionamentos o papel do provedor de serviços de radiodifusão digital DIGEA na decisão de fechar a ERT. De acordo com uma compilação de informes elaborada por um portal local, um motivo-chave para a decisão do governo poderia ser uma intenção do governo de excluir a ERT de um processo de licitação previsto para começar no dia 30 de junho. A licitação prevê a gestão de serviços digitais a um só provedor durante os próximos 15 anos.<br />
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Os termos do projeto de licitação indicam que ele foi desenhado para garantir que a DIGEA, um consórcio estabelecido por seis grandes estações de TV privadas da Grécia (Mega, Skai, Star, Ant1, Alpha e Macedônia TV), apresentasse a oferta vencedora. Esses canais de TV têm em sua história um notável apoio às políticas de austeridade, excluindo outras visões sobre o tema.<br />
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Durante os últimos dias, o canal do partido comunista, 902 TV, também tem sofrido cortes de sinal por parte da DIGEA, já que a emissora retransmitiu o sinal da ERT ao vivo, em solidariedade. Com esses precedentes, o fato de que a DIGEA poderá assegurar todas as frequências digitais supõe um novo golpe à liberdade de informação na Grécia. E o fato de que a ERT tenha deixar de existir como pessoa jurídica significa que ela está excluída de consultas antes da licitação.<br />
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Ainda hoje, a ERT continua emitindo seu sinal em linha e via satélite através da União Europeia de Radiodifusão, mas a transmissão está cortada em toda a Grécia com exceção de Ioannina, Creta, algumas regiões no norte da Grécia e nos subúrbios do norte de Atenas, onde os técnicos conseguiram reestabelecer as antenas. As rádios regionais da ERT também continuam funcionando em algumas partes do país.<br />
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Ontem à noite foi realizado um programa musical muito emocionante na sede da ERT em Atenas, com uma performance da Orquestra Nacional de Atenas e da Orquestra Sinfônica da ERT. No sábado, o canal da ERT em Salônica transmitirá um programa sobre os problemas sociais e os movimentos sociais de resistência, como por exemplo o caso das fábricas onde os trabalhadores não receberam seus salários durante meses.<br />
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As demonstrações de apoio e solidariedade nas rede sociais estão se multiplicando, ainda que também cresçam as petições para que a transmissão da ERT deixe de focar exclusivamente no fechamento da própria emissora e reinicie sua programação normal, para demonstrar por que os meios públicos devem ser verdadeiramente independentes.<br />
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Por último, mas não menos importante, a Comissão Europeia e o chefe de sua equipe de trabalho na Grécia negaram qualquer implicação com a decisão do governo, apesar de apoiarem a medida. Por outro lado, o presidente do Parlamento Europeu se uniu à ampla maioria dos meios de comunicação internacionais para condenar a decisão do governo.<br />
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<b>2. O julgamento do jornalistas Kostas Vaxevanis</b><br />
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O segundo julgamento do jornalista Kostas Vaxevanis, que foi preso e julgado pela primeira vez em novembro de 2012 em seguida à publicação em sua revista, a Hot Doc, da chamada lista Lagarde, que continha os nomes de mais de 2 mil gregos donos de contas bancárias na Suíça, deveria ter começado no dia 10 de junho, mas foi adiado para 8 de outubro.<br />
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A razão para o adiamento foi que dois dos três advogados de defesa e três das quatro testemunhas não puderam comparecer, alguns por razões de força maior, outros por casos relacionados à investigação. Apesar disso, o tribunal levou uma hora e meia para tomar a decisão, depois de uma considerável disputa sobre aspectos técnicos, para finalmente acabar aceitando que o julgamento não poderia acontecer sem a presença de advogados e testemunhas.<br />
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No entanto, o tribunal rechaçou a petição da defesa para que sejam inseridos nos autos a nova informação que surgiu da comissão de investigação parlamentar sobre a lista Lagarde. Vaxevanis continua acusado de ter publicado uma lista que foi supostamente obtida por meio de escutas telefônicas, enquanto o Parlamento já tem provas de que a lista foi enviada pela ex-ministra de Finanças da França, Christine Lagarde, a seu correspondente grego por meio de canais oficiais.<br />
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A prisão e o julgamento de Vaxevanis em novembro de 2012 já causaram protestos internacionais por censura na Grécia e teve papel importante na queda do país no índice de liberdade de imprensa de 2013, publicado pela Repórteres Sem Fronteiras. Vale ressaltar, porém, que a enorme presença de jornalistas no julgamento de 2012 não se repetiu na segunda de manhã no tribunal. A sala estava cheia, e somente duas redes internacionais, assim como meios alternativos gregos, cobriam o evento do lado de fora do edifício 9 do tribunal de Atenas.<br />
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Em relação à evasão fiscal, as autoridades fiscais gregas encontraram 6,3 milhões de euros em ativos não declaradas nas contas bancárias pessoais de quatro familiares do ex-ministro de Finanças Giorgos Papaconstantinos (PASOK). A auditoria de suas contas foi parte da investigação parlamentar sobre a lista Lagarde. Papaconstantinos está sob investigaçnao do parlamento por ter eliminado nomes de seus familiares da lista.<br />
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<b>3. Skuriés: empregos e formação patrocinados pelo Estado</b><br />
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A página de notícias alterhess revelou na sexta-feira, 7 de junho, que dos 4.900 postos de formação patrocinados pelo Ministério do Trabalho para técnicos e engenheiros desempregados no setor de mineração, 4.895 foram destinados à mineradora Ouro Grego e sua filiar grega Aktor, que tem direito de exploração no noroeste de Calcídica e opera o projeto de mineração de ouro no bosque de Skuriés, apesar da forte reação das comunidades locais.<br />
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Segundo estimativas da alterhess, se as duas empresas preencherem todas as vagas com trabalhadores desempregados, elas receberão um subsídio do Estado que chega a aproximadamente 30 milhões de euros, para cobrir o custo da formação dos trabalhadores e pagar-lhes a quantidade irrisória de 2 mil euros por pessoa para 400 horas trabalhadas (5 euros/hora). Além de receber esse subsídio, a Ouro Grego e a Aktor não precisariam pagar previdência social para os que forem recrutados ao final do período de formação. Alterhess anota, além disso, que de acordo com o plano de atividades da Ouro Grego, a companhia tem a intenção de empregar somente 1.300 pessoas para a duração do projeto, e alega estar oferecendo trabalho a mais de 700, que encorpa a pergunta sobre a necessidade de tantas bolsas de formação.<br />
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O fato de que uma grande parte dos salários que serão pagos a essas empresas sejam cobertos por subvenções do Estado contradiz abertamente o argumento do governo de que é preciso uma chamada “lucratividade” em grande escala por parte de empresas privadas, como o caso da Ouro Grego em Skuriés, para criar postos de trabalho no setor privado e promover o crescimento econômico.<br />
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Além disso, a mina de ouro em Skuriés é um dos projetos mais polêmicos da Grécia, devido à reação das comunidades locais aos escândalos ambientais e financeiros. Porém, o tema tem recebido muito pouca cobertura dos meios gregos, em particular da TV corporativa, talvez porque o acionista majoritário da Aktor, Giorgos Bóbolas, seja também acionista majoritário do maior canal privado de TV na Grécia, a Mega TV.<br />
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<b>4. Nova prisão do objetor de consciência Nikos Karanikas</b><br />
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O objetor de consciência Nikos Karanikas, 44, membro do partido Syriza, foi preso novamente no dia 11 de junho por insubordinação, apesar de já ter sido julgado por ele mesmo um “delito” em um tribunal militar em 8 de março de 2013. As autoridades argumentaram que o delito é permanente desde 1996, e por isso Karanikas pode ser detido mais vezes. Ele afirma que as autoridades pretendem esgotar seus recursos financeiros com a acumulação de processos e multas.<br />
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A Anistia Internacional tem condenado reiteradamente a política do governo de deter e acossar objetores de consciência, e já expressou preocupação com o fato de que eles são julgados por tribunais militares, o que, segundo a jurisprudência internacional, viola seus direitos a um julgamento justo.</div>
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En las noticias de #rbnews international de esta semana:</div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;">Tras la ampliación de su detención de 30 meses sin juicio con seis meses adicionales el anarquista Kostas Sakkás está en el vigésimo quinto día de huelga de hambre exigiendo su liberación.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Permanece fuera de las frecuencias públicas la señal de la ERT una semana después de la decisión del Consejo de Estado que ordenó su inmediata reapertura.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">12.500 empleos de funcionarios públicos deben suspenderse hasta el 8 de julio, de acuerdo con las decisiones de la Troika y del gobierno griego.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Se multiplican los despidos y los cierres de grandes empresas, aumenta el desempleo y se violan los derechos laborales en Grecia.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">La líder del Partido Verde de Canadá fue testigo de los métodos seguidos por Eldorado Gold en Skuriés de Calcídica</li>
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1. Kostas Sakkás en huelga de hambre</div>
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La huelga de hambre iniciada por el preso anarquista Kostas Sakkás el 4 de junio de 2013 no le ha dado un mejor trato por parte de las autoridades judiciales, pero ayudó a abrir el debate sobre el tema de los juicios injustos y las detenciones arbitrarias. Sakkas está encarcelado sin juicio desde su detención el 4 de diciembre de 2010.</div>
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Kostas Sakkás fue detenido en Atenas al salir de un almacén alquilado que contenía armas. Fue acusado de posesión ilegal de armas y de pertenecer a un grupo terrorista que en un inicio no se desveló. La acusación por participar en el grupo conocido como la "Conspiración de las Células del Fuego" se añadió más tarde, a pesar de que su nombre ni siquiera se mencionó en la denuncia de un juicio en curso sobre las actividades de esta organización específica. Por estos cargos fue encarcelado de manera preventiva por un período de 18 meses, que es el máximo permitido por la ley griega.</div>
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Sin embargo, dos meses antes del final de su período de detención preventiva, y antes de que el juicio hubiera comenzado, se le acusó de nuevo por el mismo motivo, de participar en la "Conspiración de las Células del Fuego" y se le añadió otra detención por periodo de un año, extendiendo su encarcelación preventiva a un total de 28 meses. Sus abogados han cuestionado la legalidad de la nueva acusación basada en los mismos cargos, pero sin ningún efecto.</div>
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El juicio por los nuevos cargos ni siquiera ha comenzado, sin embargo, el Consejo de la Magistratura de Apelaciones decidió recientemente ampliar su segundo período de detención por otros 6 meses, en violación del Código Penal, que establece explícitamente que un segundo período de detención preventiva no puede exceder un periodo de un año. Como resultado, Sakkás ha permanecido un total de 3 años en prisión sin juicio, a pesar de que esto viola la legislación griega, la Constitución griega y el Convenio Europeo de Derechos Humanos.</div>
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Sakkas comenzó una huelga de hambre el 4 de junio para protestar por esta nueva extensión de su período de detención. Su salud se ha deteriorado rápidamente y ha sido trasladado al Hospital General de Níkea.</div>
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Desde la oposición, el partido SYRIZA planteó la cuestión en el Parlamento, calificando el período de detención tan prolongada de "un caso de arbitrariedad judicial." La reacción del gobierno, según lo expresado en un comunicado de prensa emitido por el partido de Nueva Democracia, es muy preocupante, ya que insta a SYRIZA a "dejar de apoyar a todo tipo de personas acusadas de anarquismo y terrorismo". La implicación de que una opinión política como el anarquismo sea considerada terrorismo en unas acusaciones legales provocó una protesta pública, pero Nueva Democracia no ha retirado su declaración.</div>
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Varias acciones fueron organizadas durante toda la semana en las redes sociales para exigir la liberación de Sakkas. Su equipo de defensa celebró una conferencia de prensa el jueves 27 de junio al exponer su caso, y una manifestación de solidaridad se ha previsto hoy sábado por la mañana.</div>
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<a href="http://www.efsyn.gr/?p=56863">http://www.efsyn.gr/?p=56863</a> + in English: <a href="http://international.radiobubble.gr/2013/06/kostas-sakkas-three-years-on-remand-in.html">http://international.radiobubble.gr/2013/06/kostas-sakkas-three-years-on-remand-in.html</a><br />
<a href="http://left.gr/news/syriza-ekm-paranomi-kai-exontotiki-i-kratisi-toy-kosta-sakka">http://left.gr/news/syriza-ekm-paranomi-kai-exontotiki-i-kratisi-toy-kosta-sakka</a><br />
<a href="http://www.nd.gr/web//press-office/press/-/journal_content/56_INSTANCE_Rb5c/12001/1113379">http://www.nd.gr/web//press-office/press/-/journal_content/56_INSTANCE_Rb5c/12001/1113379</a><br />
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2. Continuación del cierre de ERT </div>
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La señal de ERT, la cadena pública de Grecia, aún no ha sido restaurada más de una semana después de que el Consejo de Estado emitiera una resolución declarando que la radiodifusión se debe reanudar inmediatamente después de que el gobierno decidiera el 10 de junio apagarla con efecto inmediato. Los empleados de ERT siguen ocupando la sede de la organización en Atenas que emite clandestinamente con la ayuda de la UER, que está transmitiendo su señal por su página web y la retransmisión por satélite. La UER también permitió que ERT proporcionase contenido a tiempo real a sus espectadores esta semana poniendo a su disposición la emisión de acontecimientos deportivos en directo. Las oficinas regionales también están siendo ocupadas por sus empleados. Los primeros informes de esta semana indican que más de 4 millones de espectadores han estado viendo ERT en línea.</div>
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Los empleados de ERT celebraron una serie de conferencias de prensa esta semana para exponer los problemas con la gestión de la empresa pública por parte del gobierno. Revelaron por ejemplo, que 26 individuos contratados como consultores para la ERT ganan tanto como los 661 periodistas de la organización. Además, indicaron que el Estado griego puede llegar a perder más de 300 millones de euros por la parada brusca de ERT, por el coste de la indemnización por despido al personal, incumplimiento de contratos para emitir importantes eventos deportivos internacionales y la pérdida de la inversión para la infraestructura de radiodifusión digital que fue comprada por ERT para participar en el concurso de licitación de la selección de un proveedor de la red digital, que se inaugurará el 30 de junio.</div>
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Manifestaciones de solidaridad fuera de la sede de ERT, como conciertos y otros eventos culturales organizados por conjuntos musicales, continuaron durante toda la semana. Una reunión de decenas de sindicatos y representantes sindicales en ERT el 25 de junio votó además una moción para continuar apoyando la lucha de los empleados de la ERT y pidió a las federaciones laborales su apoyo y su participación en una acción colectiva contundente.</div>
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Ciertas indemnizaciones parciales han sido transferidas a las cuentas bancarias del personal de la ERT por el Ministerio de Finanzas, que está tratando de formalizar el despido de los empleados. Sin embargo el ministro de Finanzas Yannis Sturnaras insiste en que el personal debe desalojar la sede de ERT antes de que los pagos puedan realizarse, alegando que el Ministerio necesita tener acceso a los archivos. Por otra parte, los avisos de terminación de los contratos fueron enviados al personal de ERT por correo ordinario en el nombre de Gkikas Manelis, que es el administrador especial designado para la liquidación de ERT - sin embargo sin el sello oficial del Ministerio, o incluso su firma.</div>
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El cierre ERT causó la mayor crisis política de Grecia desde las elecciones de 2012 y dio lugar a que Izquierda Democrática abandonara la coalición de gobierno. Una mirada cercana a la reorganización del gabinete posterior revela que al PASOK, con 11 ministros o viceministros, se le ha dado representación gubernamental muy por encima de su poder parlamentario y electoral, mientras que la tendencia general del gobierno de coalición de dos partidos ha cambiado notablemente hacia la derecha. El comentarista político Pantelis Kapsis, quien fue el portavoz del gobierno de Papademos en 2012-2013, y que tiene estrechos vínculos con el canal privado de televisión Mega, así como con los medios de comunicación del Grupo Lambrakis, fue nombrado ministro adjunto a cargo de la radio y la televisión pública.</div>
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<a href="http://lefteria-news.blogspot.gr/2013/06/24-26-600.html?spref=tw">http://lefteria-news.blogspot.gr/2013/06/24-26-600.html?spref=tw</a><br />
<a href="http://www.ertopen.com/news-in-4-languges/english/item/646-ert-employees-%C2%ABert%E2%80%99s-shutdown-caused-damage-worth-hundreds-of-millions%C2%BB#.Uc1LqPlM9gF">http://www.ertopen.com/news-in-4-languges/english/item/646-ert-employees-%C2%ABert%E2%80%99s-shutdown-caused-damage-worth-hundreds-of-millions%C2%BB#.Uc1LqPlM9gF</a><br />
<a href="http://www.ertopen.com/eidiseis/item/662-pshfisma-syneleyshs-swmateiwn-kai-syndikalistwn-poy-sygkentrwthhkan-sthn-ert#.Uc1LsvlM9gG">http://www.ertopen.com/eidiseis/item/662-pshfisma-syneleyshs-swmateiwn-kai-syndikalistwn-poy-sygkentrwthhkan-sthn-ert#.Uc1LsvlM9gG</a><br />
<a href="http://www.ertopen.com/news-in-4-languges/english/item/743-it-must-be-a-practical-joke-unsigned-notice-of-employment-termination-sent-to-ert-employees-by-post#.Uc1SeflM9gG">http://www.ertopen.com/news-in-4-languges/english/item/743-it-must-be-a-practical-joke-unsigned-notice-of-employment-termination-sent-to-ert-employees-by-post#.Uc1SeflM9gG</a></div>
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3. Suspensión sin sueldo para 12.500 funcionarios</div>
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Otra consecuencia inmediata de la reorganización del gabinete de gobierno, es que dos enmiendas propuestas por los Ministerios de Educación y de Interior para suspender sin sueldo de inmediato a un total de 12.500 funcionarios públicos que habían sido anuladas por el ex Ministro de Reforma Administrativa Antonis Manitakis, están de nuevo sobre la mesa. Los 12.500 empleados públicos son profesores de enseñanza secundaria y trabajadores en administraciones locales, y se espera que se les suspenderá sin sueldo el 8 de julio, bajo la presión de la troika que informa que lo ha establecido como requisito previo para el desembolso del próximo tramo del rescate de 8,1 mil millones de euros. El personal con suspensión sin sueldo ganará el 75% de su sueldo durante un año, al final del cual debe ser re-empleado en la administración pública en otro lugar o ser despedido.</div>
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4. Despidos a empresas privadas y los problemas con los derechos laborales</div>
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La Organización Internacional del Trabajo, realizó el 25 de junio una jornada sobre el tema de las políticas para afrontar la dramática situación de desempleo en Grecia. Esta jornada se hizo diez días después de la que OIT condenara a Grecia por múltiples violaciones de los derechos laborales.</div>
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La situación de desempleo en el país no muestra signos de mejora. Se informó esta semana que el Grupo NUTRIART, propietaria de la empresa más antigua de Grecia, Allatini, que fue fundada en 1802, se ha declarado en quiebra, dejando a 1.000 personas sin trabajo y sin indemnización por despido. Otro ejemplo de despidos abusivos es el caso de la AGET-Iraklis que es productora de cemento y que es propiedad de Lafarge. La decisión de la empresa de despedir a 229 empleados colectivamente fue revocada por el Ministerio de Trabajo, pero AGET llevó su caso ante el Consejo de Estado, en un ejemplo típico de las empresas del sector privado que exigían el incumplimiento de las condiciones sobre el despido de los empleados.</div>
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<a href="http://left.gr/news/nea-diethnis-katadiki-gia-tin-ellada-ton-mnimonion-kai-resital-ypokrisias-apo-toys">http://left.gr/news/nea-diethnis-katadiki-gia-tin-ellada-ton-mnimonion-kai-resital-ypokrisias-apo-toys</a><br />
<a href="https://left.gr/news/ptoheyse-i-etairia-katselis-sto-dromo-1000-ergazomenoi">https://left.gr/news/ptoheyse-i-etairia-katselis-sto-dromo-1000-ergazomenoi</a><br />
<a href="http://98.130.42.167/istoriki.asp">http://98.130.42.167/istoriki.asp</a><br />
<a href="http://www.alfavita.gr/arthra/%CF%80%CE%BF%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%82-%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%BF%CE%AF%CE%B3%CE%B5%CE%B9-%CF%84%CE%BF-%CE%B8%CE%AD%CE%BC%CE%B1-%CF%84%CF%89%CE%BD-%CE%BF%CE%BC%CE%B1%CE%B4%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%8E%CE%BD-%CE%B1%CF%80%CE%BF%CE%BB%CF%8D%CF%83%CE%B5%CF%89%CE%BD-%CE%B7-%CF%80%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%AF%CF%80%CF%84%CF%89%CF%83%CE%B7-%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%82-%CE%B1%CE%B3%CE%B5%CF%84-%CE%B7%CF%81%CE%B1%CE%BA%CE%BB%CE%AE%CF%82">http://www.alfavita.gr/arthra/%CF%80%CE%BF%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%82-%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%BF%CE%AF%CE%B3%CE%B5%CE%B9-%CF%84%CE%BF-%CE%B8%CE%AD%CE%BC%CE%B1-%CF%84%CF%89%CE%BD-%CE%BF%CE%BC%CE%B1%CE%B4%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%8E%CE%BD-%CE%B1%CF%80%CE%BF%CE%BB%CF%8D%CF%83%CE%B5%CF%89%CE%BD-%CE%B7-%CF%80%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%AF%CF%80%CF%84%CF%89%CF%83%CE%B7-%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%82-%CE%B1%CE%B3%CE%B5%CF%84-%CE%B7%CF%81%CE%B1%CE%BA%CE%BB%CE%AE%CF%82</a><br />
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La líder del Partido Verde canadiense y diputada del parlamento canadiense Elizabeth May, tuvo una experiencia de primera mano de los métodos utilizados por Oro Griego cuando trató de visitar el sitio de extracción de mineral en Skuriés en el noreste de Calcídica. May estaba en Grecia invitada por el Partido Verde griego.</div>
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La diputada canadiense fue acompañada por un grupo de residentes que se oponen al proyecto minero en su camino hacia el sitio de Skuriés cuando encontró el camino bloqueado por un bulldozer empresarial que estaba cavando la carretera para impedir el paso. May además expresó su enojo por los oficiales de Eldorado Gold, la compañía matriz de Oro Griego con sede en Canadá, quienes le habían dicho que la gran mayoría de los residentes de la zona está a favor del proyecto minero: "Me mintieron en Canadá asegurándome que los residentes de Calcídica y Tracia apoyan la extracción de oro, pero lo que veo es todo lo contrario. El director general de Eldorado Gold Paul Wright es un gran mentiroso". Ella se ha comprometido a apoyar la lucha de los residentes contra la minería en todas las formas posibles.</div>
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<a href="http://elizabethmaymp.ca/news/publications/press-releases/2013/06/23/green-leader-to-investigate-controversial-canadian-mines-in-greece/">http://elizabethmaymp.ca/news/publications/press-releases/2013/06/23/green-leader-to-investigate-controversial-canadian-mines-in-greece/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.enet.gr/?i=news.el.article&id=371372">http://www.enet.gr/?i=news.el.article&id=371372</a><br />
<a href="http://www.enet.gr/?i=news.el.ellada&id=371258">http://www.enet.gr/?i=news.el.ellada&id=371258</a></div>
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