Man Arrested In Greece For "Blasphemous" Facebook Page

An anonymous reader writes "A 27-year old man was arrested yesterday in Greece (Greek-language original) by the electronic crime police, for creating a Facebook page "Geron Pastitsios" which made fun of an extremely respected Orthodox Christian monk who lived in Mount Athos, as well as the Greek Church. The arrest came promptly after the Greek far-right party — which holds 7% of the parliament seats — submitted an official petition asking the government to take down the page. The charges that the young man faces are 'blasphemy' and 'disrespect to the religious beliefs of others.'" What would the UN say?

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man it sucks here in the USA

[Anonymous Coward]

with all this freedom of speach.

Re:man it sucks here in the USA

[Anonymous Coward]

with all this freedom of speach.

Thankfully, we've cracked down on the freedom of snectarine.

Re:man it sucks here in the USA

[DigiShaman]

They say books should never be burned. Well, there's always an exception to the rule. It's fucking infectious malware for the human brain.

Electronic Crime Police

[JustAnotherIdiot]

Tracking down those vile criminals, one bit at a time.

This arrest is blasphemous

[nweaver]

As the founder of the 42nd New Reformed Neo-Rebel Orthodox Pastafarian Church (newly created, 30 seconds ago), I find that all laws against blasphemy are blasphemous against my religion.

So such laws must be eliminated because they are self-violating.

I don't want to start any blasphemous rumors,

[Anonymous Coward]

but I think that Greeks got a sick sense of humor.

Politics

[girlintraining]

Politics is the same everywhere. I'm guessing it's an election year in Greece too. Politicians doing outlandish things they know will never hold up in any court is what we call "tuesday" across the pond. Conservatives over here have done things like pass laws forbidding global warming. Not research into it, or funding for it, but global warming itself. They've made being the Earth a crime. Elsewhere in America, there is a state now where, by law, every woman is pregnant. No, I'm not joking -- they legislated the definition of conception to be two weeks before sexual contact. No more virgins here, good sirs! Still no word on whether they're allowed to use the car pool lanes.

And those aren't even examples of religious non-sense, which makes the above examples look positively civil by comparison. *hugs* Greek citizens, we feel your pain too.

Greece has money to police 'electronic crime?'

[GungaDan]

Did one of them finally pay taxes?

Liam Neeson is angry

[Spy Handler]

Greek government is blaspheming against Zeus, the true god of Greece. Time to arrest them all and put Sam Worthington (son of Zeus) in charge.

electronic crime police

[TheGratefulNet]

A 27-year old man was arrested yesterday in Greece (Greek-language original) by the electronic crime police

look, can't we just remove their batteries or reboot them or something? maybe a re-install is needed?

Re:bread and circuses

[ultranova]

Well, perhaps this kind of controversy is exactly what the Greek government needs to turn attention away from the economy.

And yet my first tought upon reading this was "so this is how the Greeks use the bailout we gave them."

Oh, well. At least we now know that all that whining about budget cuts was all lies, since they can fund an inquisition. Nobody expected that.