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Greek Prime Minister Wants To End Ban On Police On Campus
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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.