ARRESTS
CONTINUE IN GREECE
The military dictatorship in Greece is continuing its policy of massive arrests and jailings.
Agence France-Presse reported from Athens November 6 that thirty persons had been picked up the previous week. They were accused of illegal acts committed in connection with resistance to the regime. Since August, according to the same source, several hundred arrests have been made on such charges as “attempted sabo~ tage" and "acts of resistance."
On November 11, a military tribunal at Larissa in central Greece, condemned Ioannis Fetsis to five years in prison.
The charge was that he had "attempted to overthrow the regime by force, praised the detainees on Yaros [the notorious prison island] and insulted the national government and the revolution in a poem which he circulated clandestinely."
Perhaps the most serious crime in the list was the illegal poen.
Four other persons were condemned
by the same court to penalties ranging
from three to eighteen months in prison.
The crimes included "insulting the au-
thorities and the person of the king, col-
lecting funds illegally for the EDA
[United Democratic Left], breaking the
martial law, etc."
The police were much exercised
about an incident which occurred Noven-
ber 9 in Athens. A Soviet flag was at-
tached to the window of a bar on the
street facing the city hall. It bore the
inscription, "Long live the October rev-
olution."
The flag was quickly hauled down
and the police arrested everyone in the
par. The two malefactors had escaped,
however.
It appeared that they had gone up
to the second floor, attached the flag,
and let it umroll down the window. They
then went to the cashier, paid for their
drinks and left before the cops could get
there from across the street.
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