Ο Επίτιμος Διεθνής Πρόεδρος της Ένωσης Ευρωπαίων Δημοσιογράφων, Αθ. Παπανδρόπουλος, ζητεί από το Διεθνές Τμήμα της ΕΕΔ να προσφύγει στα αρμόδια κοινοτικά όργανα

Υπήρξε άμεση συμπαράσταση από πολλά τμήματα της Ένωσης και ιδιαίτερα από τους Σλοβάκους και τους Ισπανούς δημοσιογράφους που κάτι ξέρουν από τέτοιες πρακτικές

H επιστολή Παπανδρόπουλου και οι πρώτες αντιδράσεις

Dear collegues,

The greek government some hours ago arrested five of our friends and journalists working for the newspaper Philelefteros and the web site liberal.gr.Their “crime” was a critical reportage about the greek immigration policy.I think that it’s urgent for the Association to protest and to sensetize the european institutions.Infortunately this is not the only case in Greece of to day.So its time to react.I am waiting for some reactions of solidarity.You can believe me, we have a real totalitarian attitude in front of us.

Athanase Papandropoulos – Hon.President of the AEJ

Οι πρώτες αντιδράσεις
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Dear Athanase,

for Slovak section I will express strong solidarity and the same way protest again arrest of our colleagues. In Slovakia we know very well about the unscrupulous encroachment from the site of political power agains journalists. From the site of AEJ Int I’m sure, that we prepare strong statement.

Tibor Macak, AEJ Int Sec Gen

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Dear Athanase,

for Ukrainian section I will express strong solidarity and the same way protest again arrest of our colleagues.

Sincerely- Artur Rudzitsky, AEJ-Ukrain

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Colleagues, it is a shocking case. AEJ and other media/press freedom groups will publish a press freedom alert on Council of Europe Platform

www.coe.int/fom designed for such cases about the journalists’ arrests in Greece

The alert is sent directly to the government for their response (and follow-up)…. Watch this space!

William Horsley, UK 
Vice-President and representative for Media Freedom 
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Dear Athanase, 
From the Finnish section, we express our solidarity with you and your colleagues. It comes as quite a shock from the cradle of democracy. We stand with you in your protest against the Greek government in this act of cowardice.

Best regards
Violetta Teetor, Finnish section