Greece: EU and Member States must create safe environment for journalists

By artappraiser on Thu, 03/05/2020 - 4:55am |

We join eight organisations in calling on the EU and its Member States to urgently create a safe environment to protect journalists reporting on the arrival of migrants into Greece.@freepressunltd https://t.co/owWl5kLCkr
— PEN International (@pen_int) March 5, 2020

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https://pen-international.org/news/greece-eu-safe-environment-journalists

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After the EU Turned Greece into a Refugee Warehouse, a Backlash

By Patrick Strickland @ NYBooks.com/Daily, March 4

Chios, Greece—Framed on both sides by squat stone walls, a narrow road leads to Vial, a refugee camp on Chios, a Greek island in the northern Aegean that is, at its nearest point, just four miles off the coast of Turkey. The pothole-pocked path bisects the village of Chalkio, passing an EKO petrol station and a scatter of shops, a couple of Byzantine churches, and the ruins of half-collapsed pre-Byzantine towers that once belonged to local grandees.

The closer you get to the camp, the more you see signs of the disarray that is driving up tensions on many of the Greek islands that have become holding sites for more than 42,000 refugees and migrants [....]

Long form with background; photos too.

by artappraiser on Thu, 03/05/2020 - 6:37am

Greece: EU and Member States must create safe environment for journalists

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