Tweets taken from Storify by Asteris Masouras
Dear foreign journalists, keep in mind that in #Greece you can be prosecuted for attempting to influence public opinion. #skouries
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(@ypopto_mousi) October 23, 2013
The prosecutor's report includes details and transcripts of phone calls, *including those between journalists and their sources*. #skouries
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Daniel Trilling (@trillingual) October 23, 2013
The evidence includes "influencing public opinion" ie giving interviews to journalists. I reported on #skouries here: newstatesman.com/austerity-and-…
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Daniel Trilling (@trillingual) October 23, 2013
27 anti-gold mining activists in Greece are being prosecuted for being part of a "criminal organisation". #skouries
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Daniel Trilling (@trillingual) October 23, 2013
#Greece: exploitation, repression and resistance through destruction in the #Skouries mine conflict wp.me/p1MKSc-OP
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Heather Marsh (@GeorgieBC) October 23, 2013
Greece and Turkey in full competition on human rights, fast backwards. Turkey had the lead for years but Samaras made a counter attack.
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Spyros Theodoritsis (@spyrosth) October 23, 2013
Greece indictment is out for #skouries protesters. They are charged with "infuence of public opinion" for giving media interviews. #Skouries
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Heather Marsh (@GeorgieBC) October 23, 2013
It seems we r both suspects, me for writing about #skouries & you for reading it. #Greece is regressing into a colonial totalitarian state.
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omnia sunt communia (@TebeoTeo) October 23, 2013
Interviews with Greek and international media being used in investigation of @antigoldgreece activists enetenglish.gr/1561 #Skouries
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(@EnetEnglish) October 23, 2013
I have antigoldgreece.wordpress.com saved to my bookmarks, secure the arrest warrant send the SWAT team #Skouries
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Anthony Verias (@VeriasA) October 23, 2013
Greek anti-mine protesters in #Skouries area already subject to forced DNA testing by police,attacks by riot squads & illegal detention.
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Teacher Dude (@teacherdude) October 24, 2013
I think I speak for every int. journo when I say that we will keep covering #Skouries, and the Greek government can fuck right off.
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Yiannis Βaboulias (@YiannisBab) October 23, 2013
So everyone who spoke to @antigoldgreece is complicit. Damn, three reports for @VICEUK and one for @NewStatesman. I'm doomed.
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Yiannis Βaboulias (@YiannisBab) October 23, 2013
#skouries. First as tragedy, now as farce.
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Yiannis Βaboulias (@YiannisBab) October 23, 2013
The only thing keeping Greece in the "partly free" category was the lack of an overt crackdown on journalism/dissent freedomhouse.org/report/freedom…
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Asteris Masouras (@asteris) October 23, 2013
Hey @IrateGreek i think you are a member of the #skouries criminal organization or at least an accomplice.Along with @asteris and @gavgero.
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(@ypopto_mousi) October 23, 2013
Btw, #GoldenDawn bleating for post-crackdown attention with a press conference this evening. Will nazi-complicit media be prosecuted too?
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Asteris Masouras (@asteris) October 23, 2013
Is Greece really going for the nuclear option of criminalizing journalism? If so, perps of pro-austerity/pro-nazi journalism should get life
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Asteris Masouras (@asteris) October 23, 2013
200 pages of interview transcripts included in #skouries prosecution. Samaras criminalizing dissent & journalism in one fell swoop #Greece
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Asteris Masouras (@asteris) October 23, 2013
.@antigoldgreece admin accused of "influencing opinion w interviews" enet.gr/393947 direct threat to press freedom #Greece #skouries
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Asteris Masouras (@asteris) October 23, 2013
#Skouries #Greece Govt prosecuting anti-goldmine activists. Accusations: talking to mainstream media & blogging enetenglish.gr/1561
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Grrrl in Athens (@RegularGrrrl) October 24, 2013