‘Greek reign of terror’

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33513, 19 April 1974, Page 11

‘Greek reign of terror’

I X Z.P.A.-Re liter—Copp rigid) , LONDON, April 18. An American who was; a prosecutor at the Nu-i remburg trials has said} after a visit to Greecei that a “reign of terror” l now going on there is in. respects worse than the excesses in Nazi Ger-;' many. }.

i Professor Mary Kaufman,' a professor of law at Antioch College, Ohio, has arrived in London after a fact-finding tour of Greece|with two other women; a; ■British barrister and a student leader; under the auspices of the League for'Democracy in Greece. They told reporters yester-j -day that there was reliable--evidence of the torture of! -political prisoners, including} students as young as 17.

,1 ‘Tn some respects conditjtions were worse in Greece s'this week than they were in i-Nazi Germany,” said Profes“isor Kaufman, who was a ii prosecutor at the trials of •Nazi war criminals after ■‘World Wai Two. ‘I “There was a total and icomplete blackout of official 'information on the where-‘-abouts of people who have (been arrested by the -regime.” she said. Professor Kaufman said

That a schoolgirl, aged 17, had told her that she and another girl were taken to a military interrogation centre in Athens, where they were raped and subjected to an orgy by both men and women. “There is extensive use of electric shock treatment, deprivation of sleep. People ■ are forced to stand on one’leg for hours until they(drop, and then beaten,” Professor Kaufman said. • “It is all done to create a -climate of terror in which -people dare not criticise the’ 'military Government."