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Belgium: Hot potatoes: Academic sacked after expressing approval for anti-GM direct action (1)

01 June 2011

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Belgium: Hot potatoes: Academic sacked after expressing approval for anti-GM direct action

- Freedom of speech row following sacking
- Critics demand immediate reinstatement

The sacking of an academic researcher from her post has recently been the cause of some controversy in Belgium. On 29 May, environmental activists stormed a field of genetically modified potatoes in Belgium, breaking through a security cordon and destroying the plants located within.

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