Acropolis Museum accused of muzzling filmmakerA rights group has accused Greece's new Acropolis Museum The New Acropolis Museum is a museum by architect Bernard Tschumi located near the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. Design The design by Bernard Tschumi was selected as the winning project in the second competition for the design of the New Acropolis Museum. of censoring censoring in epidemiology, a loss of information from a study, whether by subjects dropping out of the study or because of infrequent measurement. a video that shows early Christians vandalising antiquities after complaints attributed to the country's Orthodox Church. The Greek section of the Helsinki Monitor (GHM GHM Groupes Homogènes de Malades GHM Gay Hispanic Male GHM God Help Me GHM General Hydrological Model GHM Gerdt H. Mathiesen AS GHM Guest-Host Mode GHM General Health Maintenance ) on human rights on Monday said it had filed an injunction application against the museum, demanding that the video by prominent French filmmaker Costa-Gavras be restored in full. GHM said the museum had excised a 12-second segment from a Gavras animation video showing robed figures hacking away sculptures from the iconic Athens Parthenon, a reference to the ancient temple's transformation into a basilica basilica (bəsĭl`ĭkə), large building erected by the Romans for transacting business and disposing of legal matters. Rectangular in form with a roofed hall, the building usually contained an interior colonnade, with an apse at one end when Christianity supplanted paganism in Greece after the 4th century AD. In statements to Greek TV station Mega, Gavras -- a former president of the Cinémathèque française -- has blamed the Church for the move. "I think it's sad and unacceptable for Greece, a member of the European Union European Union (EU), name given since the ratification (Nov., 1993) of the Treaty of European Union, or Maastricht Treaty, to the European Community , that the state would bow before pressure from the Church," the Greek-born filmmaker said. "The Church has always denied reality to protect its dogma. I thought that Greece had rid itself of such pettiness," he added. The episode is less known in Greece than other misfortunes that befell the Parthenon in its 2,500-year-old history. The marble temple was badly damaged in a Venetian siege in 1687, and a large number of the sculptures that remained were removed to London in the early 19th century on the orders of British diplomat Lord Elgin. The Acropolis Museum The Acropolis Museum is an archaeological museum located in Athens, Greece on the archeological site of Acropolis. It is considered as one of the major archaeological museums in Athens and ranks among the most important museums of the world. , which opened in June, has denied censoring Gavras, and notes that the segment was removed "to avoid misunderstanding" given that the circumstances of the Parthenon's transformation into a church are not fully known. The injunction is scheduled to be discussed in December. 
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