With this communiqué we want to inform about the current legal situation that continues to prevent the release of our anarchist comrade, despite the fact that 2 years have passed since his arrest (we remember illegal). It is evident the will of the executioners in robes to continue kidnapping Gabriel. With any means that their (almost) unlimited powers allow them, they abuse demonstrating their will to continue turning time into a weapon.

The sadness of the legal message (which we use in a synthetic and cold way) becomes strength knowing that our comrade is in very good health and spirits, despite this situation, and despite the discriminatory treatment he has been suffering for months after having refused the anti-Covid “vaccine” (he is not allowed to have vis-a-vis and can only receive visits by telephone). As always, he is investing his time (in his hands, as in ours, time can also become a weapon) reading books, receiving and writing letters, dedicating himself to translations and physical exercises and to freedom projects that we hope will materialize as soon as possible. The communication interception has been retroactively annulled (before last summer the Provincial Court, with a firm sentence, established the “non-dangerousness of the inmate”). Continue reading Spain: Legal developments since last public statement on Gabriel Pomba Da Silva (April 2021) →

In December 2021, we received information that Aleksandr Zaitsev, who declared his commitment to the anarchist movement, was in pre-trial detention in Volodarka. It took us quite a while to verify this man’s story and get to the bottom of it.

In 2020, Zaitsev actively participated in protests against the regime and was detained at least once in November under “people’s” article 23.34. While in detention, Zaitsev met a man who introduced himself as Dmitry Sergeenko. Comrades from the Pramen team found the real name of this man – Dmitry Akulich, who had been working for many years with the Interior Ministry as a provocateur and prison agent. Akulich actively begins “developing” Zaitsev and by summer both are already planning a radical action: they want to set fire to Sukalo’s dacha. To paint a pretty picture of the investigation, Akulich says that he got in touch with the group “Stork fly” and they paid for him to buy two five-liter bottles of gasoline.

Continue reading Belarus: The case of anarchist Alexander Zaitsev →

On February 14, the imprisoned comrade Polycarpos Georgiadis, accused of aggravated possession of weapons, as well as comrade M.T. and comrade E.M. are being tried on misdemeanour charges.
On September 23, 2020, the anti-terrorist police proceeded to arrest the comrade after an anonymous – of course – phone call and a search of a warehouse he keeps in Koukaki. The broad findings of this search (a quantity of explosives, detonators and bullets) would, under normal circumstances, constitute misdemeanours of simple possession of explosives and ammunition.

Without any further evidence, however, the charges were upgraded to felonys and were linked by the media to the actions of armed revolutionary organisations. Two important moments of this unfortunate connection were first the attempt to present a proclamation of the O.L.A. organization found on a usb stick of the comrade as an original, a scenario that came to light a few days later, and then the association of bullets found in the warehouse with actions of the organization in A. This scenario also runs up against the fact that the comrade was in prison at the time.

The scenario is well known: an anonymous phone call leads to the arrest of a militant, with a crudely prepared indictment and the media filling the monstrous gaps in the case with anti-terrorist hysteria. Our duty, also familiar: to stand by the comrade, putting the brakes on another operation to eliminate the enemy within.

Microphone Gathering, 11/2 Thessaloniki 19:00

Rally-March, 12/02, 20:00,  Exarchia Square

Solidarity call , 14/02, 09:00,  Court of Appeal in Athens

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Translated by Act for freedom now!

A DNA MIXTURE THAT COULD BE ANYONE’S, EVEN YOURS!

This text was written on the occasion of the 2nd degree trial that will be held on February 9th ,2022 , for the case of Vanggelis Stathopoulos and Dimitris Hatzivassiliadis. In the first instance, the former was sentenced to 19 years’ prison for his practical solidarity with the wounded Hatzivasiliadis and the latter was sentenced to 16 years’ prison for the Revolutionary Self-Defence case. Previous writings of the assembly mention the targeting of the comrades and their political persecution. Here we are focusing on and attempting to highlight the role of DNA in the recent targeting of militants.

Over the past 15 years we have increasingly seen political persecution and even detention on the pretext of finding DNA or a DNA mixture. It has begun to be used sparingly and methodically in cases of militants, with the aim of establishing itself alongside other flimsy police guilt-construction papers, such as anonymous phone calls, cooked evidence and fabricated statements. In terms of the past most prevalent, we heard it in the case of Aris Sirinidis in 2009, later in the case of Irianna and Periclis in 2017, then in the  Tassos Theofilou case in 2012. Continue reading A DNA MIXTURE THAT COULD BE ANYONE’S, EVEN YOURS! (GREECE) →