April 1st – International Day of Action for the Hunger Strikers in Greek Prisons The imprisoned anarchists who participate in DAK (Network of Imprisoned Fighters) Antonis Stamboulos, Tasos Theofilou, Giorgos Karagiannidis, Dimitris Politis, Fivos Harisis, Argyris Ntalios, Andreas-Dimitris Bourzoukos, Grigoris Sarafoudis and Yannis Michailidis, the Revolutionary Struggle members Nikos Maziotis […]
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On March 25th, it became known that social prisoner Giorgos Inglessis has been on a hunger strike since March 3rd in support of all the demands of political prisoners who are on hunger strike since March 2nd. As far as supporters know, he has lost 12 kilos, he’s experiencing dizziness […]
Since yesterday, March 23rd, anarchist prisoner on hunger strike Kostas Gournas (convicted Revolutionary Struggle member) has been moved from the type C maximum security prison of Domokos to the provincial hospital in Lamia, where the conditions are indescribably appalling, the prisoners are placed in isolation room-cells, and communication with them […]
Till this day, March 23rd 2015, dozens of political prisoners have gone on hunger strike (most of them since March 2nd), demanding that the following be abolished: the special “anti-terrorist” legislation, and particularly articles 187A (terrorist organisation) and 187 (criminal organisation); the special repressive law (hoodie law); and the type […]
Since yesterday morning, March 21st, hunger striker Dimitris Koufontinas (convicted 17N member) has been transferred from the type C maximum security prison of Domokos to the provincial hospital in Lamia, where he’s being held in a room-cell with no window. In addition to the miserable conditions, it becomes difficult, if […]
On March 11th communists from Turkey who are incarcerated in Greek prisons began a rolling hunger strike in support of all the demands of other political prisoners who are on hunger strike since March 2nd.
“Today Sunday 8 of March we occupy the central offices of the government SYRIZA in Koumoundourou Street. We stand in solidarity with the hunger strikers, political prisoners in Greece, and we ask that their demands are satisfied. 1. Abolition of the Anti-terrorist Law Α’, article 187, Law 2001 (criminal organization) […]
A brief chronicle of the past few days: While the Greek society is watching the post-election fables of the SYRIZA-ANEL coalition government in an almost dormant state, incarcerated anarchists and combative prisoners in the galleys of democracy have once again decided to clash with the Power and its laws, using […]
NO ONE LEFT ALONE IN THE FACE OF STATE REPRESSION Political prisoners have currently launched a hunger strike in Greek prisons beginning from March 2nd 2015. Some of them, like me, have a common context of demands regarding: the abolition of the ‘antiterrorism’ legislations, the abolition of the hoodie law […]
According to latest updates via the Radiozones of Subversive Expression (radio98fm.org), as of March 4th 2015 anarchist prisoner of war Panagiotis Michalakoglou, currently held in the prison of Nigrita in Serres, begins a continued abstention from prison food in a minimum display of solidarity with the ten imprisoned members of […]
As of today March 3rd 2015, A.M. and E.K., two of the women incarcerated under appalling conditions in the female section of Neapoli men’s prison in Lasithi (on the island of Crete), abstain from prison food in a display of solidarity with the political prisoners who have launched a collective […]
On March 2nd 2015, combative prisoners launched a hunger strike in various Greek prisons. Their main demands are: the abolition of Article 187 (criminal organisation) and Article 187A (terrorist organisation) of the Greek Penal Code; of the “hoodie law” (acts committed with concealed physical characteristics); of the legal framework for […]