Documento’s journalist was unprovoked by the Union of Police Officers of Thessaloniki. Christos Avramidis, for reports and videos from the events in Thessaloniki, after the march to Tempi, on March 1st.
The targeting is punctuated with announcements by ESIEM-Th, MeRA25 and PAME.
The announcement of ESIEM-TH:
Despite the repeated complaints and warnings of ESIEM-Th, journalists were once again attacked by police officers while covering the February 28 nationwide strike in Thessaloniki, despite declaring their journalistic status.
However, beyond the obstruction of the journalistic work in the field of reporting, the member of ESIEM-TH Christos Avramidis was targeted by name by the Union of Police Officers of Thessaloniki, who, by posting on their website, disapprove of what he wrote regarding the practices followed by the police on that particular day and they refer to the possibility of a lawsuit against him.
The targeting of journalists, and in fact by State bodies that have an obligation to facilitate their work, is a practice that exposes information workers to immediate danger.
ESIEM-TH requests that the announcement targeting the colleague be withdrawn and withdrawn and calls on the police authorities to take every possible action so that similar phenomena do not happen again.
“Fire” from MeRA25
“MeRA25 Thessaloniki denounces the targeting of the journalist and member of ESIEM-TH, Christos Avramidis, by the Union of Police Officers of Thessaloniki.
The tactic of ELAS during demonstrations is known to obstruct the work of journalists and photojournalists, often even with the use of violence. Now, with its announcement, the Union of Police Officers of Thessaloniki refers to a journalist’s report threatening him with the possibility of legal action against him.
In fact, the report in question concerns the operations of the Hellenic Police at the February 28th mass demonstration about crime in Tempi — a demonstration in which a MeRA25-member protester was injured by a live flash.
MePA25 is steadfast and consistent in the face of every strategic anti-public participation (SLAPP) lawsuit. Targeting journalists puts news workers at risk and is an attempt to silence the press.
As MeRA25 Thessaloniki we support the request of the Union of Editors of Macedonia-Thrace for the revocation and withdrawal of the announcement of the Union of Police Officers of Thessaloniki”.
And from PAME
“The working journalists, technicians and administrative employees who gather at PAME Press and Media express our solidarity with our colleague Christos Avramidis who was targeted by the Union of Police Officers of Thessaloniki because he dared (!) to denounce and criticize in writing the repression and obstruction practices of of journalistic work from police attacks, in the mobilizations of the nationwide strike of February 28 in Thessaloniki.
We are on the side of every honest information worker, every person “who prevents him from marching”.
We demand the immediate withdrawal of any act of targeting the colleague, even the verbal one.
We are fighting, and in this direction we are calling on all our colleagues in the media industry, so that all counterproductive laws and provisions, such as the Lebanese law that criminalizes information and Article 191 of the penal code, that promote censorship, are abolished in practice. self-censorship and repression”.
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