On the evening of Friday 25/10, a 22-year-old woman prisoner was found hanged in a temporary detention area of Korydallos prisons, with the news announced by the media of the system four days later on the morning of the 29th. On 24/10 she had been transferred to the special health centre of Korydallos prisons and then to a psychiatric hospital, as the prison officials had judged her behaviour “criminal”. She was then returned to her cell with the same pattern repeating itself next morning. Even if forensically this is considered suicide, the distinction is meaningless as a large number of previous incidents prove the uniformed officers’ contribution. This particular case is another state murder, reminding us of the punitive and inhumane nature of the prison system.
A system that not only does not care about them, but annihilates the personality of each prisoner. A system that not only does not respect mental illness, neurodiversity and the experiences of the incarcerated, but that creates countless psychological traumas and not only.
Behind its liberal facade, the state is quick to use any means to suppress any kind of reaction against it, in order to maintain the illusion of security and order. So, while scumbags like Korydallou prison director Maria Stefi take to the TV channels to decry the prison system and the living conditions inside it, prisoners of all kinds are experiencing the rot first hand. Being a manifestation of the very system that deprives of everything that each individual will reclaim their own way, it calls any opinion that contradicts its own “offensive”. On this pretext, prisoners go through all kinds of torture in order to be punished by the authorities. Degrading body searches, poor hygiene and living conditions, isolation, beatings and murders ordered by prison officials. Another retaliatory tactic against prisoners is the deliberate disregard for prisoners’ medical and psychological needs. The image presented in the media, which speaks of care and respect for “human rights”, breaks with reality as shown by the hanging of the prisoner in Korydallos, forcing state institutions to blame the prisoners themselves, since suicide is obviously not the responsibility of the sadistic prison system.
We don’t need further evidence to know exactly how the state apparatus works, since countless dead, hanged, raped, beaten in A.T. and prisons, are the evidence, with more recent examples being Mohammed Kamran, who was tortured in various parts of Athens and the 29-year-old from Bangladesh, who was also found hanged in A.T. Omonias, in a cell with 11 other inmates. These incidents are of course not isolated, as Balaska-type scoundrels blather on in the papers, but add to a list that is constantly growing and always goes unnoticed, with the cover-up of the media.
Another “isolated incident” is Asran Ali, a prisoner in Volos, who was found dead on Friday 25/10 due to the deliberate negligence of the police, after hours of pleading with the prison staff for medical treatment as he was suffering from severe pain. with the latter ignoring him and saying he was lying.
In today’s dystopia, a movement should not discriminate and only remember the dead by the long arm of the state on anniversaries. Emphasis should be given to the names of the dead from work accidents, up to the imprisoned, criminal and non-criminal with a multifaceted struggle. For this reason, we are calling for a reflective gathering today, Tuesday, October 29, in Eleftherias Square of Korydallos at 20:30, for the hanged prisoner in Korydallos prisons, the deceased in Volos prison Asral Ali, the deceased in A.T. Agios Panteleimonas Mohamed Kamran, the hanged 29-year-old in A.T. Omonias AND EVERYONE DEAD AT THE HANDS OF THE STATE.
UNTIL THE DEMOLITION OF EVERY CELL
ANARCHISTS
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