{"id":50322,"date":"2022-11-18T02:29:10","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T17:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/17\/greek-court-acquits-activists-banner-acropolis-china-protest-landmark-decision"},"modified":"2022-11-18T02:29:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T17:29:10","slug":"greek-court-acquits-activists-who-hung-banner-at-acropolis-in-china-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50322","title":{"rendered":"Greek court acquits activists who hung banner at Acropolis in China protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Landmark decision described as \u2018huge victory for freedom of expression and right to peaceful protest in Europe\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Activists who were accused of attempting to \u201cpollute, damage and distort\u201d the Acropolis after they hung a banner from the Athenian monument in protest against China\u2019s policies in Tibet have been acquitted by a Greek court.<\/p>\n<p>In a landmark decision described as a victory for human rights defenders globally, a three-member tribunal threw out the charge on Thursday. A public prosecutor had only minutes earlier pressed for a guilty verdict.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/17\/greek-court-acquits-activists-banner-acropolis-china-protest-landmark-decision\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Landmark decision described as \u2018huge victory for freedom of expression and right to peaceful protest in Europe\u2019Activists who were accused of attempting to \u201cpollute, damage and distort\u201d the Acropolis after they hung a banner from the Athenian monument i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":678,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,221,402,53,80,609,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-europe","category-greece","category-human-rights","category-protest","category-tibet","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/678"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50323,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50322\/revisions\/50323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}