Rally against electronic ID cards in Greece gathers thousands of participants (+Photos)

Athens, February 8, 2016

A rally against the new electronic “citizens card” gathered thousands of people in the center of Athens, reports a spokesman of AgionOros.ru from the Greek capital.

Photos by the Romfea news agency Photos by the Romfea news agency
    

Representatives of clergy, cultural figures and scientists protested against the plans of the government “to enslave the freedom of the human personality by introducing the universal electronic control system over Greek residents”.

Monks from holy Mount Athos and a number of Greek monasteries, clergy and laypeople were present at the rally.

The meeting was followed by a procession to the Greek Parliament.

Earlier holy Mount Athos raised its voice against the introduction of “citizens card”.

On March 16, 2015, the Holy Kinot of Mt. Athos sent an open letter to Georgios Katrougalos, then Minister of the Administrative Reform.

In the view of the Holy Kinot, the new electronic passport, “which is being introduced under the pretext of the struggle with bureaucracy and the economic crisis”, will pose a threat to the inviolability of personal data and will lead to “violation of personal rights and freedoms”.

“We ask you to take into consideration that the electronic 'citizens card' is an outrage upon the human dignity of citizens, reducing them to mere 'numbers' in the system of the state administration. Thus the God-given freedom of human personality will be violated,” the appeal of representatives of all Athonite monasteries to the minister reads.

The Athonites called upon the government not to introduce the new identification cards.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

Pravoslavie.ru

2/9/2016

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