News about T, from prison in Haren (Brussels), and visit restrictions

Indymedia Nantes / Thursday, April 16, 2026

Imprisoned since November 12, 2025, accused of setting fire to three police vehicles in Brussels. T has been under “telephone and visitor restrictions” since mid-March. Specifically, the number of visitors and telephone contacts he was previously allowed to see or speak to was suddenly and drastically reduced.

A complaint was filed against these restrictions based on the lack of notification to the inmate. Following this, they were indeed lifted, but were quickly reinstated when a formal justification was provided by the prison administration.

This measure would thus be justified by the supposed “links with extremist circles” of the visitors, which would present the risk of “favoring the maintenance or development of networks of influence linked to these circles, or compromising the security of the establishment”.

Although the investigation has just been closed, the final hearing before the pre-trial chamber (which decides on detention) resulted in his continued pre-trial detention. At the next hearing, at the end of April, a date for the criminal trial will also be set. The issue of receiving visits and being able to communicate with the outside world therefore remains a pressing concern.

Facing the arbitrary actions of the prison administration is a daily reality for prisoners, and have a whole range of measures at their disposal to reinforce isolation. Solidarity with prisoners’ resistance and revolts against their isolation conditions is part of the struggle against all prisons.

The forms and possibilities of this struggle are multiple, whether it be by covering the walls of prison-cities with one’s ideas, the distribution of leaflets or newspapers, spontaneous gatherings or going to piss off the profiteers and servants of confinement… In short, everyone can show solidarity in the way they deem most appropriate!

Solidarity with T and fire to the prisons. Freedom for all!