6. Legal Restrictions on the Content of Publications

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Greece has a law 927/1979 that prohibits racial, national or religious discrimination or violence. However, it has hardly ever been used in courts, mainly because it presupposes that only the victim can bring charges using that law, while the prosecution has no ex officio jurisdiction to act in obvious cases of racial violence or hate speech. As in at least one case, the Jewish community that used it against a neo-fascist newspaper was not able to gain cause, the law is considered a dead letter.