Greece: Macedonian human rights
01 September 1993
The Aegean Macedonian Association of Australia have produced a pamphlet detailing the denial of human rights to Macedonians living in Greece. The pamphlet focuses on a number of cases. Hrsitos Sideropoulos and Tasos were sentenced to five months in prison for stating in a magazine article that a Macedonian minority exists in Greece. Archimandrite Nikodemos Tsarknias, a well known Macedonian human rights activist, has been charged with talking back to his archbishop and his trial is set for April 1994. Michael Papadakis, a 17 year old school boy, who was sentenced to a year in prison for distributing anti-nationalist leaflets at a rally.
The pamphlet also includes an Amnesty International report and a classified report from the Greek National Security Service on the elimination of the Macedonian language and consciousness.
Human Right Abuses Against Macedonians in Greece is available from: The Aegean Macedonian Association of Australia, PO Box 409, Kingsgrove, NSW, 2208, Australia.