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Czech game developers face 20 years of prison in Greece... They took photos of public buildings

• maze-le 10y ago
  They were released over 3 years ago, after over 100 days in jail... They were arrested for photographing a military base, wich is not exactly a public building (and illegal in every country I know of).
  • jkot 10y ago
    Case was resumed (it was never closed) a few weeks ago. If they are sentenced in Greece, our country will have to pass them to Greece.
    • maze-le 10y ago
      Uhh, I havent heard of that... I thought the thing was over in 2013!? It would be an utter embarresment for greece if they really pushed this any further.
  • Kristine1975 10y ago
    >wich is not exactly a public building (and illegal in every country I know of). Which is still all kinds of fucked up. If you don't want your government facility to be photographed build it underground.
    • maze-le 10y ago
      Yes, it is kind of fucked up. I dont want to excuse silly laws like that, but I think it is more reasonable to expect things like this if you take photos of military installations (at least more reasonable than beeing detained because you said 'someone barked at me'). And up until now I thought the case was closed, because there was no intention of espionage, but appereantly I was wrong (see: jkot in the sister-thread). > If you don't want your government facility to be photographed build it underground. You comment gave me a thought: What about the people that operate Google Earth? They must be held accountable for espionage in every counry in the world. Now 'that' is fucked up...
  • logfromblammo 10y ago
    It is legal to photograph a military base (or any other government property, for that matter) in the US, provided that you do it from the public right-of-way (or any other place you would otherwise have a right to be). Unfortunately, MPs, sheriff's deputies, and municipal police officers (if applicable) are very likely to hassle you about it anyway, and possibly also detain you on any convenient pretext, should you attempt it. This had bred a variety of protester that will stand on the public sidewalk, photographing things, until a cop shows up. The police encounter is recorded in its entirety. Depending on what the cop does, the protester may then sue for rights violations, and typically receives a settlement offer after the judge sees the video, which then gets posted to the Internet to fan your outrage.
    • dTal 10y ago
      I may have misread your tone, but you sound as if you find such protesters distasteful. I for one hope they bravely continue, until such time as one need not fear being detained on convenient pretexts for legal activities.
      • logfromblammo 10y ago
        Yes, you definitely misread. The only thing I find distasteful about such protests is that those cops who enforce laws that do not exist are not generally held personally accountable for their actions in any meaningful way, even when they cost their county/municipality tens of thousands of dollars for just a few minutes worth of unprofessional conduct.
• radarsat1 10y ago
  What? Seriously?
  • jrcii 10y ago
    Yep true story.