About the political witch hunt across Greece Only days before the commencing of the trial of a number of people accused of participating in the urban guerrilla group Conspiracy of Cells of Fire (the trial starts on Monday, 17/1), the police’s anti-terrorist unit has launched an operation across Greece. Four […]
11 January: Three detainees present their view on prisoners’ abstention from meals and hunger strikes during November 2010 The recent abstention of prison food and the hunger strike of thousands of prisoners who are stacked like animals in Greek prisons today, highlighted as much as possible the problems and our […]
On 30 December 2010, a powerful bomb detonated outside the Administrative Court building in central Athens causing significant damage but no injuries. ‘Conspiracy of Cells of Fire–Commando Horst Fantazzini‘ claimed responsibility for the bomb attack, but also called for ‘International Network of Actions and Solidarity–Informal Anarchist Federation.’ You may also […]
Beaten Up, Fitted Up, Don’t Let Them Get Banged Up Over a hundred people were arrested after a demonstration confronting the European Union summit, held in Thessaloniki in Greece back in 2003. Seven people were imprisoned and held on remand, including UK protester Simon Chapman. The prisoners began a hunger […]
Migrant worker was killed while working in the Ministry of Employment! / December’s 2010 labor murders / Bosses’ violence in cooperation with the state. On December 19, 32-year old Emad Aziz, from Egypt, slipped off the third floor of a building of the Greek Ministry of Employment and Social Security […]
On January 5th, 2011, one of many pigs that make up the DIAS squad (a special police force instituted two years ago consisting of two-person units on a motorcycle equipped with a “license to kill”) ran over a 6-year old Roma girl, killing her. Almost immediately, people gathered in solidarity […]
A trade unionist, Nikos Saritzoglou, who worked in the quarries of Araxos, has already been imprisoned for one month in Koridallos hellhole. An arrest warrant had been issued against him that concerned an old minor debt. This warrant has not been disclosed to him. In insidiously way, the worker was […]
On 5 January a cop of the DIAS motorcycle police force ran over a 6-year old Roma girl in the area of Menidi in NE Athens (where there are Roma’s settlements). According to eye-witnesses, the six-year old girl was run over as she was on the streets, where she was […]
The first recorded exercise for demonstrations’ suppression by the Greek army forces was held on 13 March 2002 in Veria (northern Greece). It was part of the 2nd Army Corps’ training, which was prepared for ‘pacification missions’ for the treatment of demonstrators. The pretext was the preparation of ‘pacification missions’ […]
On April 2007, an uprising in Koridallos prison was held in solidarity to the detainees in Malandrino prisons, who had revolted after the anarchist Yannis Dimitrakis was beaten up [inside the same hellhole]. The revolt in Koridallos prison wings was suppressed by police squads. On 14 January [2011], 23 prisoners […]
Each new year’s eve we do not forget those who are buried in the prison cells of the republic. One more year, we found ourselves next to imprisoned comrades and all those detained who do not bent neither bow their head, who dared to resist and fight against the regime. […]