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Text by hunger striker Thanasis Pikassis, and emergency update on the hunger strike, from 8/7/24 (Greece)

Emergency update on the hunger strike, from 8/7/24 Thanasis Pikasis

Today 11/9, and while the fighter prisoner Thanasis Pikasis is going through the 61st day of hunger strike, he developed chills, fever temperature and severe body pains. In repeated attempts to call for a doctor by both himself and another prisoner who heard the shouts no one responded immediately. He tried to get up and fell down unable to get up again. Then came a guard-torturer who kicked him and stomped his head on the floor saying “I don’t understand hunger strikes”.

From the service, he was given 3 reports about this incident, as a result of which the warden visited him, saying that the cameras would be checked. When the nurse came and because of the shivering and the very intense pains especially in the bones of the legs, she gave him 2-3 dextrose injections, a sedative and painkiller injection so that he could recover and calm down.

VICTORY IN THE HUNGER STRIKE FROM 8/7 OF TH. PICASSIS
NEITHER CRIMINAL OR POLITICAL RIOT AND FIRE IN EVERY PRISON

Assembly of Solidarity to the imprisoned, fugitives and persecuted militants

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Text by hunger striker Thanasis Pikassis

Today having reached 55 days of hunger strike, and lost 55.8 kilos, I declare from the prisons of Agios Stefanos Patras, that the rightness of my struggle is clearer than ever, I will continue this struggle against the degradation of my rights as a prisoner to the end and now being at a limit point, the only thing that will stop me is either death or justice.

There are moments where if you turn the other cheek to a blow, you are not the only one who gets hit, but you give space to arbitrariness, fascism in the legalisation of prisons becoming the property of corrupt guards, politicians and managers.

The right to education is sacred. Not one step back. To the end.

Thanasis Picassis on hunger strike from 8/7

Greetings to those in solidarity outside the walls and the supporters prisoners who keep me strong!

1/9/2024


Actforfree note read: THE GREEK STATE CONTINUES TO TORTURE INSIDE ITS PRISONS

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Santiago, Chile: Confrontiations with Special Forces Outside of Liceo de Aplicación

via: es-contrainfo

Santiago,  Confrontiations with Special Forces Outside of Liceo de Aplicación

Received 20/08/2024:

MEMORY AND SOLIDARITY ARE WEAPONS THAT WE KNOW HOW TO CARRY.

INCENDIARY STROLL APPLIES MONDAY AUGUST 19, 2024

In solidarity with Francisco Solar, anarchist prisoner who is currently in a regimen of total isolation in the dungeons of the $hilean capital.
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Chile) Words of Anarchist comrade Francisco Solar for the Week of International Agitation Against Isolation

Words of Francisco Solar for the Week of International Agitation Against Isolation

It’s important to understand that Power is applying isolation as an intra-prison regime to combat anarchism of action in different parts of the world, utilizing the most severe measures the penitentiary systems can think of to annihilate the ideas and practices that are enemies of all forms of authority once and for all. This is not new. There have been many moments across history in which States have decided to put an end to anarchism, but they haven’t managed to.

Now it’s up to us, not only to stop authority from accomplishing its purpose of annihilation, but managing to leave this stronger, creating the conditions and the moments that make the powerful tremble.

In this sense, revolutionary solidarity plays a decisive role to the extent that it knows that striking against Power and creating autonomous instances of struggle, in some way, breaks the isolation.
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Claudio Lavazza is free!

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more general solidarity actions news about comrade Claudio Lavazza here

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Claudio Lavazza has been finally released yesterday 7/9/24 after having served his sentence! After nearly 28 years locked up in French and Spanish prisons, Claudio can finally walk again on the paths of freedom and embrace all the comrades that have never stopped showing their love and solidarity in all these years.

Against All Prisons!
Freedom for all prisoners!

Cassa AntiRep delle Alpi occidentali

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Statement for Running Down The Walls 2024 by Anarchist prisoner Toby Shone (UK)

I’ll be joining the 5km Running Down The Walls event in September
that is organised by our comrades across the Atlantic in the United
States.

This initiative is another date in the calendar that can help
build a revolutionary narrative that prisoners and those outside can
participate in together. It promotes physical training and fitness with
a mindset of solidarity in struggle.

These kind of events give us strength and development. A huge shout out to all those taking part.
I write this during the International Week of Solidarity for Anarchist
Prisoners, in combative memory of the state murders of Sacco and
Vanzetti in Boston 1927. P.S. A greeting also to the rebel prisoners in
Italy, I heard of the revolts even here in high security.

Toby Shone
27/08/2024
HMP Garth North West UK

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Freedom for anarchist comrade Joaquín García Chancks! (Chile)

Freedom for Joaquín García Chancks!

“Only by acting do we shake morality from our bodies to learn that
nothing is really written”

Solidarity with anarchist comrade Joaquín García Chancks, sentenced to 13 years in prison for the Explosive/Incendiary attack carried out by the Gerasimos Tsakalos Explosive Cell, against the 12th Police Station of San Miguel on Oct. 2015. He was also convicted for the revolver he was carrying when he was recaptured by the PDI while he was clandestine in the south of Chile. The comrade has been imprisoned since November 2015 under a strict regime of high security and segregation. Joaquín is currently in the Rancagua Prison/Company in the high security module.
(Chile)

“For the suicide of the image and the fetish,
For the real destructive complicity.”

Down with the prison walls!

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Komotini,Greece : Solidarity and complicity with Anarchist prisoners around the world

Solidarity and complicity with Anarchist prisoners around the world

Responding to the call of a week of solidarity with Anarchist prisoners around the world, we send a signal of solidarity by hanging a banner on the railway bridge of the west exit of the city, as well as a raised fist, to the imprisoned comrades and comrades.

Those who forget the prisoners of war forget the war itself!

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KOMOTINI (Northern Greece): Solidarity against the isolation regime of the Anarchist Francisco Solar by Anarchists from Utopia AD

Solidarity against the isolation regime of the Anarchist Francisco Solar

In the framework of the international week of agitation and solidarity against the isolation regime of the anarchist comrade Francisco Solar from August 10 to 17, we carried out on the walls posters in central places of Komotini.


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Italy: Two texts from Luca Dolce, aka Stecco: “Beating on cell bars in solidarity in the prison of Sanremo” and “Trieste: the death of an excluded”

Two texts from Luca Dolce, aka Stecco: “Beating on cell bars in solidarity in the prison of Sanremo” and “Trieste: the death of an excluded”

Beating on cell bars in solidarity

May 4th, from 8.15pm to 9pm I did a battitura [beating metal object on cell bars] in solidarity with the comrades arrested during the night between 3rd and 4th May in Genoa and imprisoned in the jails of Marassi and Pontedecimo.

Today is the anniversary of Bobby Sands’ death in 1981, the Irish revolutionary who taught dignity in the prison struggle. It is right that this anniversary be remembered.

I also dedicated this small gesture to all the comrades struck by the repression these past few weeks concerning the solidarity carried out in the streets during the mobilisation for Alfredo Cospito and against 41-bis. To you my fraternal greetings with clenched fist!
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THE GREEK STATE CONTINUES TO TORTURE INSIDE ITS PRISONS (Greece)

A closed prison is also a closed account with Tyrranny. It is neither a sight nor an architectural work of art, but the mass grave of thousands of bodies that were imprisoned, tortured, deprived and burned to death not ever seeing the sun again without the bars or a break. When you look at a prison, think of how many people were subjected to the violence of isolation, how many were buried alive in solitary confinement, how many were deprived of their families, their people, their self- evident right to freedom. How many marched in sections through the wing courtyards, turning into each wall again and again, how many lost what was most

beautiful in themselves and became alienated, emotionally humiliated and cold.

In these cells the Greek state once imprisoned people who fought for the freedom of this country, people who resisted decay and misery, people who could not reconcile themselves to a life of submission and rebelled. In these cells, the Greek state murdered fighters who did not cooperate, who did not repent and whose death became a symbol of resistance and freedom. Today, the Greek state is still murdering people in its prisons because they are claiming, outside of bribes and favours, their self-evident rights. Because they do not bow down to their captors, but they demand better conditions of detention, they demand better lives, and they not sign their death in silence.
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From: Domokos prison, Anarchist Nikos Maziotis: On the Latest Rejection of My Parole (Greece)

Nikos Maziotis: On the Latest Rejection of My Parole

For the 5th time, the Lamia Criminal Court has recently rejected my request for conditional release despite the 3rd consecutive positive prosecution. During the last 2.5 years since I have reached the law of suspension by law, Lamia’s judicial councils, including the Lamia Council I had once appealed, have rejected a total of 6 times my request for conditional release. It is now very likely that I will be one of the few prisoners nationwide – if not the only one – with a temporary prison sentence with the maximum sentence of 20 years under the 2019 Presidential Code that will get the entire sentence without parole. And I will probably be the only one of dozens of political (anarchist and other) prisoners who have spent the last 20 years in prison with a sentence of temporary imprisonment, who is exempt from parole. Of course, the reasons for rejection are still political-opinional: that I refuse to recognize as criminal the acts for which I have been convicted, namely the action of the Revolutionary Struggle, as mentioned in the recent rejection decree, but also the precedent of September 2023.

The issue of repentance for the political opponents of the political-economic regime has now been historically established as a necessary criterion and condition for the granting of conditional release, thus continuing the historical tradition of the Greek state in other eras, from the years of the Metaxas dictatorship, the years of the civil war and the post-civil war period to the junta of the colonels.
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[From Greece] Update about the the special “state of exception” for the anarchist Nikos Maziotis, convicted comrade of Revolutionary Struggle

We would like to send you some news about the imprisonment of anarchist comrade Nikos Maziotis -who is in Domokos prison for his actions in Revolutionary Struggle- and the special “state of exception” for him.

as a summary:

The Lamia Misdemeanors Court Council recently rejected the comrade’s request for conditional release. This is the sixth time his request has been rejected (five rejections by the first-instance council and one by an appellate court where he appealed only once). Three of the six requests Nikos Maziotis has submitted for his release were rejected by a council presided over by the same judge. And in all three instances, his request was accompanied by three consecutive positive prosecutorial recommendations.

With the recent conditional release of the Nazi Michaloliakos, the above was proven once again. According to journalistic, legal, and judicial circles, this decision was signed by Christina Papagianni as president of the Lamia Misdemeanors Court Council. Thus, with the decision No. 121/30.4.2024, the specific one was released, while his first release request was accompanied by a negative prosecutorial recommendation. From the very beginning, there was not only political cover but also a concerted and coordinated effort by state (and judicial) authorities to keep the name of the council president who released the Nazi. This attempted cover-up did not succeed. The president’s name was immediately revealed through leaks from journalistic (and not only) offices. And despite the fact that the Nazi is now back in prison (after an appeal was filed against his release by an appellate prosecutor), the selectively biased stance of far-right elements within the “justice system” who release Nazis, yet are the same ones like this particular judge who keeps comrade Nikos Maziotis imprisoned, can no longer remain hidden.
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12 Comrades in Pre-Trial Prison for July 6 Repressive Operation (Chile)

12 Comrades in Pre-Trial Prison for July 6 Repressive Operation

July 10,2024 / informativoanarquista Translated by Act for freedom now!

Yesterday, on this same site, we made a roundup  of the repressive events that took place at dawn on July 6 in the context of the commemoration of the death of comrade Luisa Toledo. Now, we’re adding information relating to the attempted explosive attacks and updating the news regarding legal status. The situation is as follows:

-Today (July 9) the Court of Appeals accepted the petition of the Southern Prosecutor’s Office and determined pre-trial prison for the 9 comrades whose detentions had at first been declared illegal by the 6th Guarantee Court. These comrades were processed by the Law of Arms Control in flagrante delicto: Daniel Yáñez Seguel, Ismael Almonacid Sánchez, Tomás Montenegro Astudillo, Ricardo Alvarado García, Patricio Araya Muñoz, René Camacho Cáceres, Marcelo Ahumada Jiménez, Roberto Ocampo Binder, and Sebastián Moncada Román.

-The comrade (companera )whose lawyer had proposed a bond of 1 million pesos also remained in pre-trial prison, and the bail was rejected today. Milán Miranda is being processed for possession of an explosive device and possession of explosives, after they found a homemade grenade with black powder and industrial explosive material in his house.

-José Araya Vidal, the comrade who suffered a fracture in a motorcycle accident during the operation and was later hospitalized also remains in pre-trial prison and is set apart as the only one accused of planting explosive devices.
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Naples, Italy: Zac “free”! Acquittal at the end of first instance trial in Naples and notification of special surveillance 11th July 2024

Zac “free”! Acquittal at the end of first instance trial in Naples and notification of special surveillance
11th July 2024

Zac “free”!!!

Zac was acquitted at the last hearing of the trial, on July 11th (both 280bis and 270quinques because the fact does not exist). The reasons will be produced within 90 days.

A large group of comrades and others in solidarity was present at the hearing, but a few hours before the sentence they tried to spoil things (with little success) by notifying the start of the preventive measure that Zac had been sentenced to in December (2 years and 6 months’ “qualified special surveillance” for the offences he was accused of in the trial), which imposes the following restrictions: obligation to stay in the municipality of Pozzuoli, to be at home from 9pm to 7am, to not “habitually” frequent persons who have been convicted or are subject to preventive measures, not to leave home without prior notice from the supervisory authority, not to have access to public establishments and public entertainment, “to live honestly respecting the law”, not to possess or carry weapons, not participate in public meetings, always carry the red booklet, turn up every Sunday, or anyway any time reqursted, to the supervisory authority.

The review hearing for surveillance will be on October 25th.

Meanwhile, as a banner incited outside the court…

ANARCHY EVERYWHERE!

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