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Dangerous orthodoxy: Greek human rights activists sentenced for challenging clerical antisemitism

Kate LaycockFebruary 17, 2022

A Greek court has sentenced two prominent human rights defenders to 12 months in prison, suspended for three years, because they challenged a senior leader of the Greek Orthodox church over a document which they described as a work of "antisemitic delirium". Inside Europe spoke to one of the campaigners about their conviction and the background leading up to it. 

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Panayote Dimitras is the spokesperson for the human rights organisation Greek Helsinki Monitor.