Free speech is under attack in Greece

ATHENS — Private television channels here suspended their news coverage as of 6 a.m. Wednesday in solidarity with employees of the state broadcaster, ERT, which was shut down by the government on Tuesday, while newspaper headlines conveyed the shock felt by many Greeks at the closing of a 75-year-old institution that had employed 2,900 people.

“An Execution to Please the Troika,” read one in the center-left newspaper Eleftherotypia, a reference to the trio of creditors — the International Monetary Fund, the European Commission and the European Central Bank — whose representatives are back in Athens this week to audit Greece’s progress in sticking to conditions attached to the country’s multibillion-euro bailout.

Read more: NYTimes.com, 13 June 2013