Due to poor health as a result of hunger-strike, Nikos Maziotis’ trial did not take place on 12 January 1993 as scheduled. The court refused his lawyer’s request to release him on grounds of ill-health but, based on medical advice, he was later granted exemption from call-up for two years on...

Nikos Maziotis, an imprisoned conscientious objector, has been on hunger- strike since 30 November 1992 in protest against his imprisonment. He was arrested on 16 October 1992 and will be tried on 12 January 1993 on charges of desertion and defaming the Greek armed forces. He is currently in the...

Anastasios (Tasos) Georgiades, a Jehovah’s Witness minister, was released from prison on 27 July 1992. Amnesty International considered him to be a prisoner of conscience.

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Amnesty International is concerned about the imprisonment for the second time on 4 April of Jehovah’s Witness minister Tasos Georgiades after he refused to perform military service.

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