Index on Censorship award winner Kostas Vaxevanis returned to an Athens court on Monday for a fresh hearing in his prosecution for the publication of details of secret bank accounts. The case was ...

A journalist arrested for publishing a "rich list" of some 2,000 Greek suspected tax evaders has been cleared of privacy breach charges. A court in Athens freed Costas Vaxevanis, throwing out the case ...

Mr Vaxevanis, a celebrated investigative journalist and publisher of the Hot Doc magazine, faced at least a year imprisonment, plus a fine of 30,000 euro if convicted. The 46-year-old insisted ...

Mr Vaxevanis, 46, published the list in Hot Doc, the weekly magazine he edits. He is accused of breaking private data rules and faces up to two years in prison if convicted.

Remember the name Costas Vaxevanis. He is the Greek journalist who has just been committed for trial for breaching the country's privacy legislation. His supposed crime?

Greek journalist, Costas Vaxevanis, is to be tried again after being cleared in a case arising from the publication of the “Lagarde list” of wealthy Swiss bank account-holders, a source at the ...

Mr Vaxevanis's trial is set to open in Greece on 1 November. If he is found guilty, the 46 year-old faces up to three years in jail.