[fse-esf] Protest for the arrest of Prof. Yannis Milios

[Simó Endre]

   The Hungarian Social Forum CWG condemns the mesures taken on 
8th June by the JFK Airport's authorities of New York against Prof. 
Yannis Milios, violating fundamental human rights, as the freedom of 
movement and of opinion - is written in a communique of the HSF cwg 
distributed on Monday June 12 to the Hungarian and International 
Press. We consider revolting, that Prof. Milios has been arrested after 
having been granted of an official entry visa to the USA. What would do 
the government of the US, if a professor of the State University of New 
York would be arrested in the Athens Airport and expelled from Greece 
because his liberal vieuws? - communique puts the question, and 
rejects the responsibility for the occured not only on the FBI, but on the 
US government giving the instructions to the FBI.
HSF cwg energically condemns the witch-hunt based on ideological 
prejudices and expresses solidarity with the victim of the persecution, 
Prof. Yannis Milios.


 
   Communique based on the following original information:
Haris Golemis <golemis at eppnp.gr> írta:

> With deep indignation, I would like to inform you on the following
> event:
>  
> On Thurday 8 June 2006, Professor Yiannis Milios, member of the 
Board of
> Nicos Poulantzas Institute, of the Greek Social Forum and of the
> Secretariat of the Coalition of Radical Left (SYRIZA), was arrested by
> the FBI at JFK Airport of New York. He was interrogated for
> approximately 5 hours and finally was not allowed entry in the US,
> despite the fact that he was an invited speaker in an international
> academic conference organized by the State University of New York.
> During the interrogation process, FBI agents were interested to 
know his
> political views and affiliations as well as the strategy that the
> political space he belongs in has for achieving its aims.
> Yiannis Milios is a Marxist economist with international reputation,
> editor of the influential Greek radical left political review "Theseis"
> and a regular signatory of the Memoranda of European Economists 
for an
> Alternative Economic Policy in Europe.
>  
> Haris Golemis 
>  
> 



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