Greek Prime Minister Wants To End Ban On Police On Campus

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August 06, 2019

University students hold a blood-stained Greek flag from the deadly 1973 student uprising, in Athens, Nov. 17, 2018. That uprising was crushed by Greece's military junta, that ruled the country from 1967-74. (Yorgos Karahalis/AP)

The new prime minister of Greece, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, wants to repeal a longstanding law that bans police from university campuses. The decades-old law was supposed to protect freedom of speech on campus. The country's military dictatorship used violence to suppress a student rebellion before the law was passed in 1982. Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson speaks with Mary Bossis, professor of international security at the University of Piraeus in Greece.

This segment aired on August 6, 2019.