“Greece’s education ministry has banned children from using mobile phones while at school,”the BBC reports. “The ruling follows the rape of a 16-year-old girl during a school sit-in which was reportedly videoed by fellow pupils on their mobiles.Senior school students who repeatedly ignore the new ruling face the prospect of expulsion. Almost every Greek school pupil over the age of 15 possesses a mobile phone, according to a recent study. They are mainly used for listening to music, sending text messages and playing games but the gang rape of a 16-year-old Bulgarian girl on the island of Evia has convinced the education ministry that children will have to do without their precious status symbols.The rape was reportedly videoed by some of the girls’ female classmates using their mobile phones”.

Greece bans mobiles in schools