Κυριακή 25 Αυγούστου 2013

I write in solidarity against the prosecution of Savas Michael-Matsas by the Greek state. Though I write in a personal capacity, I am a member of the Faculty of Law of the University of Oxford and I teach (among other things) the notoriously stringent English law of defamation. Even from the perspective of this law, the prosecution of Savas-Michael Matsas by the Greek state, as it is reported in the press, appears as a clear abuse of legal process.

All the more it should be unequivocally condemned from the perspective of the defence of democratic rights and of the interests of the workers' movement.

Mike Macnair
(Dr.) M.R.T. Macnair Ann Smart Fellow & Tutor in Law St Hugh's College Oxford OX2 6LE tel. 01865 274966