Yannis Chrissoverghis

GREECE: CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION TO MILITARY SERVICE A right that is regularly ridiculed, particularly for atheists

Seventeen years after its recognition and thirteen years after it was written into the Greek Constitution, the Greek government understands the right to conscientious objection as a privilege granted to Jehovah’s Witnesses. For two years all the requests for the status of conscientious objector for reasons other than belonging to this religion have been regularly rejected. Moreover, arrests and trials of conscientious objectors are multiplying.

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