Helen Vlachos, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Helen Vlachos

Greek journalist

Date of Birth: 18-Dec-1911

Place of Birth: Athens, Attica Region, Greece

Date of Death: 14-Oct-1995

Profession: politician, journalist

Nationality: Greece

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Helen Vlachos (UK: , US: ; Greek: ????? ??????, Eléni Vláchou; 18 December 1911 – 14 October 1995) was a legend of Greek journalism, newspaper-publishing heiress, proprietor, and anti-junta activist.Soon after the coup of 21 April 1967, she closed down her newspaper Kathimerini as a protest against the dictatorship.
In October 1967, her description of one of the junta principals, Brigadier Stylianos Pattakos, then Minister of the Interior of the junta, as a clown, led to her house arrest, for which she later wrote a book under the same title. For her refusal to acquiesce to the Greek junta's demands that she censor her publications, her resistance against the regime of the colonels, and her contributions to freedom of the press, she was posthumously recognised as one of the World Press Freedom Heroes by the International Press Institute.