Greek journalist tell the truth, and police charge them with violating data law?
"Greek journalist Kostas Vaxevanis, editor of the Greek magazine Hot Doc which published the list on Saturday, is being tried on Monday for—according to a police spokesman—violating data privacy law by revealing citizens' private information.
This controversy comes right as the greek government prepares to introduce new austerity measures to secure international aid. This irony was not lost on Vaxevanis who, in a video sent to Reuters, defended his actions as an excercise of press freedom:
I did nothing other than what a journalist is obliged to do. I revealed the truth that they were hiding.
If anyone is accountable before the law then it is those ministers who hid the list, lost it and said it didn't exist. I only did my job. I am a journalist and I did my job."
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/10/29-3
Not sure about this important law, but while billions are hidden out of the country so that a deal to bring in more money under Austerity provisions will do harm to the people of Greece and not those with billions has been the element of discussion by journalists...
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