Prison of Saint-Gilles, Brussels
Support action for the international solidarity week with anarchists prisoners 2024.
Force to the compas locked up, fire to the prisons, and death to repression.
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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!
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!
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.
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!
[Received via e-mail and published in https://lanemesi.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/17/zac-assolto-al-termine-del-processo-di-primo-grado-a-napoli-notificata-la-sorveglianza-speciale-11-luglio-2024/]
(Uruguay) Agitation Against the Isolation of Comrade Francisco Solar
Agitation Against the Isolation of Comrade Francisco Solar
July 13, 2024 / informativoanarquista Translated by Act for freedom now!
From the territory in conflict with the uruguayan State, we join the campaign against the isolation that the gendarmerie and the legal power in Chile wish to impose on the comrade Francisco Solar.
The exceptional intensification of prison conditions is a clear example that their “law” is a falsehood, that it’s not equal for everyone, that it’s valid up until it touches their privileges, which they’ve definitely felt with the direct attacks that they’ve received!
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(Chile)To Stand Tall Faced with the Events of July 6
July 8, 2024 / informativoanarquista
At dawn on Saturday July 6, various raids were carried out in the context of an investigation for the placement of explosive artifacts. 14 people were detained, various households raided, among these the Radio Villa Francia and the Pablo Vergara Toledo Communitarian Space, where the Luisa Toledo Popular Cafe takes place.
Desperate, the Prosecutor’s Office dusts off old tactics, the massive raids have returned, the mediatic shows and the premise of raid and arrest, in order to investigate. We don’t ask them to improve the protocals of justice, we only unveil the hypocracy and absurdity of the legal labyrinth. We despise the world of power, its logic, mazes and tactics.
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Call of Gathering in solidarity with the anarchist Andreas F. (Athens,Greece)
From petty supermarket theft… to ”terrorist organization” in the second act of the police terrorist cell of the E.L.A.S. [Greek police headquarters] the comrade is transferred to Athens, interrogated and, according to the anti-terrorism law (187A), accused of being a member of “ conspiracy of revenge” and the natural instigator of its action. Finally, on 26/4, the investigator and the prosecutor decide to keep him in custody in the prison of Amfissa.
In the face of the fear that tries to spread through vindictiveness in the face of Andreas, but also in the face of his comrades, our response has always been and will always be the same: non-negotiable support for his political stance and his anarchist identity, solidarity in this difficult struggle that begins, this time from within the walls of the prison. Until we meet again in the next struggles we will fight. Andrea, strong, until freedom.
Gathering in solidarity with the anarchist Andreas F. who is called for additional interrogation.
Athens, Evelpidon Courts (building 10) – Friday 12/7 9:30 a.m.
FREEDOM NOW! FOR ANARCHIST COMRADE ANDREAS F.
Presentation and Discussion: 7pm, Tuesday 11th June at Touchpaper Anarchist Library (South London, UK )
Something’s Missing?
Portland in Revolt 2020-2024
Presentation and Discussion: 7pm, Tuesday 11th June*
In the uprising ignited by the police murder of George Floyd in 2020, the city of Portland had a particularly long, hot summer – with its own trajectory of revolt and militaristic repression. Anarchists from this context will present their experiences and perspectives.
In Portland as in many other places, anarchy is lived and experimented by those who don’t wait for streets filled with angry crowds or popular assemblies filled with revolutionary declarations. Instead it is found in the here-and-now attacks on power, in plain words and destructive acts. But what happens when the possibilities change rapidly as they did in Portland? Can anarchists bring something to such a moment that (proto-)politicians and organisers can’t?
“In our view it is necessary to resist the sirens of recognition, if not political, also social. We are not generals searching for soldiers, neither shepherds searching for sheep. We don’t need pats on the back or smiles from the people. We don’t have to be accepted, since we neither want to convert nor guide anyone. We want individuals to unleash themselves because – as, in a far away past, an anarchist prince once privately confided –“without disorder, revolution is impossible”.”
“Only the one who rebels and has already rebelled, albeit only in the microcosm of their own life, only one who has already braved the consequences of this rebellion and lived them in depth, can have nerves sensitive enough and the intuition necessary to grasp the signs of an insurrectionary movement in the making.
[…] The strongest moments of the people in arms eliminate, of course, all prior procrastination and uncertainties. They allow to see clearly what yesterday was just a blur. But they cannot illuminate what does not exist. These moments are a powerful reflector that allows the realization of a revolutionary and anarchist project, but this project must exist already, if only in its methodological outlines. It must already have been worked out, even if not in every detail, and, as far as possible, have been tried and tested.”
* 11th June = international day of solidarity with Marius Mason and all long-term anarchist prisoners. Library open as usual from 4pm. Let’s read together and discuss the statement from J11 2024
June 11th International Day of Solidarity with Marius Mason & All Long-Term Anarchist Prisoners
June 11, 2024: No Separate Worlds
We once again approach June 11th, a day of remembrance and active solidarity, in a world of multiple crises and struggles for liberation. All of these are interconnected; there are no separate worlds. Across borders, languages, contexts, and identities, both catastrophes and victories of spirit and defiance reverberate around the globe. One environment is not untouched by another. The personal is not separate from the political. The positive project is not separate from that of destruction. Prison is not separate from the “free world.” Means are not separate from ends. Bridging these divides is a shared curiosity and commitment; bridging these divides is solidarity.
This is not to flatten or oversimplify diversity and differences in circumstance, intensity, and consequence. Rather, that these different pieces are held together like organs of the body held by connective tissue. So we consider: how do we strengthen this connective tissue? How do we remain strong, yet supple and flexible? Bridges, connection, must also be built through time, especially in a world that moves too fast, from one crisis to the next. June 11th aspires to be one of these bridges: to build solidarity across borders, between movements, and among generations. Remembering and supporting long-term prisoners, as well as carrying on shared struggles, are two ways to strengthen this connective tissue. A stronger connective tissue will, in turn, bolster us against further repression.
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