On New Year’s Eve, 24 out of 25 migrants held on remand were finally released from prison. They were among the accused in the Amygdaleza uprising trial that were unanimously acquitted in court of all charges related to the rebellion at the Amygdaleza concentration camp in August 2013. After the […]
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On December 22nd, 2014, the Athens court in Degleri Street unanimously acquitted the 65 migrants from all charges relating to the Amygdaleza prison riot that occurred in August 2013. However, the court dismissed a motion by defense lawyers seeking compensation of several migrants who had been put in pretrial detention […]
On Sunday, November 30th, 2014, nearly 70 comrades gathered outside the barbed wires of the Amygdaleza concentration camp. Detained migrants, outside the containers, stood on the other side. We saw them and they saw us, we shouted and they shouted back, at some moments we joined our voices: “FREEDOM”. Then […]
Downtown Athens, October 31st; demo in solidarity with the migrants accused of last year’s uprising at Amygdaleza detention camp (Menidi, Attica); the banner reads: “Let’s demolish the concentration camps and bury the guards under their ruins.” More photos from the demonstration here. The trial against the migrants continues on Tuesday, […]
Concentration camps for migrants are perhaps the most glaring example of state totalitarianism and social fascistization we experience nowadays; the imposition of a state of emergency on the socially weakest, the wretched economic migrants, the refugees, our class brothers and sisters. Some see in this an opportunity to build wealth, […]
On November 1st, 2014, more than 300 demonstrators took to the streets of Thessaloniki in solidarity with migrants accused of rioting at Amygdaleza detention centre in Attica in August 2013. The 65 migrants stand trial on Monday morning, November 3rd, at the courthouse of Athens located on 4, Degleri Street. […]