Press Releases
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- June 2, 2008 Armed Greek Police Plan to Forcibly Remove Peaceful Monks
- October 20, 2006 Armed Greek Police plan to forcibly remove monks
- October 13, 2006 Greek Government sentences Esphigmenou Monks to jail
- August 14, 2006 Court to try Esphigmenou monks for schism and heresy
- July 17, 2006 Severely burned monk denied Emergency medical attention
- October 24, 2005 Esphigmenou under new, harsher blockade
- February 14,2003 Greece Highest Court lifts blockade of besieged Mt Athos Monastery
- January 29, 2003 Patriarch of Constantinople blockades food and heating oil to Esphigmenou
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January 22, 2003: Greek police and coast guard enforce state religion by blockading food, medicine
and water
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January 16, 2003 Esphigmenou blockaded in attempt to forcibly evict monks
- January 5, 2003 Press Release from Esphigmenou Monastery