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The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that Greece's former national statistician, Andreas Georgiou, lost his right to a fair trial in 2018 when his appeal against a conviction for "violation of duty" was rejected by a Greek court. This ruling allows Georgiou to request a reopening of the case in Greece, potentially leading to his conviction being overturned. Georgiou's conviction stemmed from his refusal in 2010 to allow the approval of revised deficit numbers for Greece during a debt crisis. The ECHR recommended that domestic proceedings be reopened to examine the request for a preliminary reference to the Court of Justice of the European Union. In another development, a fundraising campaign was successful in supporting the researchers behind Data Colada, a blog that exposed data tampering in papers co-authored by a Harvard professor. The researchers are facing a defamation lawsuit and have raised over $330,000 for their legal defense. Additionally, claims characterizing South Africa as the "rape capital of the world" have been debunked by fact-checking agency Africa Check, which argues that different legal definitions of rape and incomplete reporting skew statistics. Lastly, C.R. Rao, a renowned Indian mathematician and statistician, passed away at the age of 102. Rao made significant contributions to the field, including the Cramér–Rao lower bound and the Rao–Blackwell theorem. [Extracted from the article]