The War On News

A record of government actions against journalism and fact-based reporting, from the first press laws to today

The record

Incidents: prior restraint in Greece

Each incident is a dated action by a government, an official, a regulator, a court or a legislature that limited journalists' ability to gather or publish news.

The number of entries reflects the depth of this record, not the severity of a country's conduct.

All filters: country, dates, head of government, sort

1 incident matches this view.

GreeceRSF rank: not recorded

Greece: collaborationist government creates a Directorate-General for Press and Radio to review films and publications before release

The collaborationist government installed in occupied Greece created a Directorate-General for Press and Radio to take over and expand the prior review powers of the prewar Metaxas dictatorship, requiring official permission before films,…

Prior restraint · Stage Silence · Head of government Georgios Tsolakoglou · Sustained

Download this view

CSV, JSON or Markdown. CC BY 4.0; credit "The War On News, thewaronnews.com".

Incidents (RSS)Incidents (Atom)Incidents (JSON Feed)All incidents (CSV)