{"id":10765,"date":"2013-10-01T07:11:43","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T07:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10765"},"modified":"2013-10-01T07:12:02","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T07:12:02","slug":"greece-to-draft-hate-speech-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10765","title":{"rendered":"Greece to draft ‘hate speech’ laws"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The leftist Greek government said on Monday it would soon present a bill targeting “racist hate speech”, part of a crackdown on the Golden Dawn party after an anti-fascist rapper died.<\/p>\n

“(The bill) will be submitted to parliament in a matter of days. It has symbolic and moral value,” Deputy Prime Minister Evangelos Venizelos told reporters, adding that it would align Greek legislation with European standards.<\/p>\n

Greece’s ruling coalition had been at loggerheads over whether it needed a new anti-racism law to deal with inflammatory talk used by Golden Dawn.<\/p>\n

Venizelos’s Socialist PASOK party had pushed for a new law, while the main ruling conservative party of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras had argued that current legislation was enough.<\/p>\n

But the murder of rapper Pavlos Fissas on September 17 by a suspected Golden Dawn supporter prompted a crackdown on Greece’s third-most popular party, whose fierce anti-immigrant rhetoric has attracted support amid a severe economic crisis.<\/p>\n

Golden Dawn leader Nikolaos Mihaloliakos and four other party lawmakers are due to appear in court this week to respond to charges of forming a criminal organization.<\/p>\n

The government is also preparing another law that would suspend Golden Dawn’s state funding on the grounds that its leadership is facing prosecution on felony charges.<\/p>\n

“Democracy can’t fund its opponents,” Venizelos said.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors are investigating the party for links to about 30 violent attacks, including the killing of the rapper and a Pakistani immigrant.<\/p>\n

The party has denied any connection to the rapper’s death and also rejects the neo-Nazi label.<\/p>\n

An outright ban of a political party is difficult under Greek law. The government plans instead to undermine Golden Dawn by cutting its money flows and dismantling its leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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