{"id":10329,"date":"2026-03-09T11:24:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T09:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hlhr.gr\/?p=10329"},"modified":"2026-03-09T12:48:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T10:48:06","slug":"deutsche-welle-greek-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hlhr.gr\/en\/deutsche-welle-greek-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement by the Hellenic League for Human Rights on the closure of Deutsche Welle\u2019s Greek Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Hellenic League for Human Rights (HLHR) expresses its concern over the decision to discontinue the Greek Service of Deutsche Welle after more than six decades of operation.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For many years, Deutsche Welle\u2019s Greek-language service has been an important source of reliable and independent journalism, contributing to media pluralism and informed public debate in Greece. At a time when safeguarding media freedom and pluralism remains a key democratic priority across Europe, the loss of such a longstanding international journalistic voice is a matter of serious concern.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HLHR underlines the importance of maintaining strong and independent international public media in Europe and calls for this decision to be reconsidered.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hellenic League for Human Rights (HLHR) expresses its concern over the decision to discontinue the Greek Service of Deutsche Welle after more than six decades of operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10330,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hlhr.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10329"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hlhr.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hlhr.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hlhr.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hlhr.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hlhr.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10332,"href":"https:\/\/www.hlhr.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10329\/revisions\/10332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hlhr.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hlhr.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hlhr.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hlhr.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}