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« on: Tuesday, 29 April, 2014 @ 03:06:25 »
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Sex workers' union challenges new laws on brothels as unconstitutional

In a case brought before the Council of State, Greece's supreme administrative court, the Greek sex workers' national union and five women sex workers from Thessaloniki have challenged new restrictions on running brothels as unconstitutional and contrary to internationally established personal and civil liberties.

According to an announcement on Sunday, the new rules have led the Athens municipality to revoke the licences of nearly all the city's brothels, except three. The closed brothels, according to the sex workers' lawyer, have since reopened and about 500 are now operating illegally.

According to sex workers... the measures will lead some 7,000 individuals, including sex workers and support staff, to losing their livelihoods, undermine public health when brothels are driven underground and cost the state hundreds of thousands of euros in lost VAT earnings.
http://www.hri.org/news/greek/ana/2014/14-04-28.ana.html#30