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[ NNSquad ] Facebook page mocking Greek Orthodox monk leads to jail sentence
Facebook page mocking Greek Orthodox monk leads to jail sentence
http://j.mp/1mrrfPk (Guardian)
A man who created a Facebook page poking fun at a revered Greek
Orthodox monk has been sentenced to 10 months in prison in Greece
after being found guilty of blasphemy. Thousands of Greeks took to
social networking sites to protest against the arrest in 2012 of
Filippos Loizos, 28, who used a play on words to portray Father
Paisios as a traditional pasta-based dish. "He was merely satirising
in a country that gave birth to satire," his lawyer, Yorgos
Kleftodimos, said on Friday. "Never and by no means did he insult the
Orthodox church."
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