Category Archives: Revolutionary Prisoners News

Update about the health condition of Alfredo Cospito on the 85th day of hunger strike (Italy, January 12, 2023)

On January 12th, the 85th day of the hunger strike to the bitter end against 41 bis prison regime and life imprisonment without possibility of parole, the antagonist radio station Radio Onda d’Urto broadcast a third speech by the doctor who is regularly visiting anarchist comrade Alfredo Cospito, imprisoned in the Bancali prison, in Sassari. As for the updates on the 71st (December 29th) and 78th day (January 5th) of hunger strike, we report a transcript of the speech and the recording of the broadcast (in italian language):

“He has lost even more weight, and significantly more than last week: he lost another 4.50 kg, so he weighed 80 kg today. So for his height of about 1.93 cm, he is about 10 kg below his target weight. The musculature is getting progressively smaller […]. He was a bit angry because today four members of parliament from Partito Democratico [Democratic Party, PD] went to visit him [in Italy parliamentarians can, by their own decision, visit prisons at any time] and he reiterated that his struggle is not just for him, but is for all those who are imprisoned in 41 bis.
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Update on imprisoned anarchist Ivan Alocco, on the 16th day of new hunger strike alongside Alfredo Cospito (France, January 6, 2023)

6/1/23

Ivan on 16th day of hunger strike!

We hear from France about the new hunger strike that anarchist Ivan Alocco has been on in solidarity with Alfredo since last December 22 [the comrade went on a first hunger strike, which lasted 35 days, between October 27 and December 1].

Ivan is fine, he takes sugar in his water instead of meals and also a little salt in the morning, which prevents his tension from dropping too much causing him great dizziness (however, the lowest blood pressure he has reached so far is 50 minimum and 80 maximum). Glucose is okay, toxins some days are a bit high, but nothing to worry about.
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Athens,Greece: Anarchist comrade Charis Mantzouridis found not guilty.

Athens: today16/1/23,at the appeal trial court found not guilty.

Anarchist comrade Charis Mantzouridis was found not guilty today after being held in pre-trial incarceration for 14 months.

Another rigged trial by the state prosecution machinery, based on a dna sample, has been foiled.

Another trial has become a conviction of the state!

STRENGTH TO ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS

FREEDOM TO THOSE IN THE CELLS

UNTIL THE TERMINAL PRISON IS TORN DOWN

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updated information about anarchist comrade Thanos Chatziaggelou (Greece)

This morning 15/1/23, there was a special transfer by cop van of the comrade Th.Chatzianggelou from the Serres hospital to the hospital of Korydallos prison.
After this move, the comrade stops his hunge  r strike. Further information will follow with a text from him.
Thanos, stay strong until freedom! Θανο γερα ως την λευτερια!
Solidarity with the prisoners’ struggle against the new prison code.
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Athens, Greece: Event-information on the case of the anarchist comrade Charis Mantzouridis

Athens: Event-information on the case of the anarchist comrade Charis Mantzouridis

On Thursday 20 January, 18.00, at the Self-managed Canteen of the Law School, there will be an informative event on the case of comrade Charis Mantzouridis, with a telephone call from the comrade himself from the Psychiatric Hospital for Prisoners of Korydallos Prison.

The themes of the event:

Information and discussion concerning the case of H. Mantzouridis.

– Inclusion and mental health: a discussion with the Ps.

– dna as a weapon to build prosecution.

* The comrade’s phone call will start at exactly 18.30.

IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF H. MANTZOURIDIS

AGAINST EVERY FORM OF CONFINEMENT

Assembly of Solidarity with imprisoned, fugitive and persecuted militants

International Call to Action in Solidarity with Alfredo Cóspito – January 22 to 28 .2023

INTERNATIONAL CALL TO ACTION IN SOLIDARITY WITH ALFREDO COSPITO AND THE END OF THE 41BIS REGIME (January 22-28).

We extend the call for an international campaign in solidarity with comrade Alfredo Cospito during the week of January 22-28. More than 80 days after the beginning of his hunger strike against the 41 bis regime, it is urgent for us to deepen and multiply the gestures of internationalist solidarity and to deploy all our forces against all expressions of domination. We hope that this initiative can be translated and spread to all anti-authoritarian comrades throughout the world. We also hope that this campaign will go beyond the walls that isolate comrade Alfredo and that he will feel all our solidarity and complicity in war. LET’S NOT LEAVE ALFREDO ALONE!

END THE 41 BIS REGIME!
FREEDOM FOR ALFREDO CÓSPITO!
LONG LIVE THE BLACK INTERNATIONAL!
DEATH TO THE STATE AND LONG LIVE ANARCHY!

Received on January 12, 2023

https://lapeste.org/2023/01/llamado-internacional-a-la-accion-en-solidaridad-con-alfredo-cospito-22-al-28-enero/

Athens,Greece: 12/1/23 The trial of Revolutionary Self-Defence has ended…

Information concerning comrades V.Stathopoulos and D. Chatzivasiliadis  from the Court of Appeal in Athens.

The trial of Revolutionary Self-Defence has ended

Comrade Vanggelis Stathopoulos was acquitted of the charges of membership of a terrorist organization, possession of weapons as a terrorist act, theft (O.Π.Α.Π.) and aggravated weapons possession.

Found guilty of simple possession of weapons involving a taser, an iron fist and a pocket knife, of the 19 years of imprisonment he was sentenced to in the first instance, he was sentenced to 10 months. A mitigating factor of subsequent good behaviour was recognised and the sentence was suspended.

Comrade Dimitris Chatzivasiliadis was found guilty on charges of forming and joining a terrorist organisation, possession of weapons as a terrorist act, theft (Ο.Π.Α.Π.) and simple possession of weapons. He was sentenced to 14 years’ imprisonment instead of the 16 years of the first instance.

The struggle continues! Until the last prison is torn down!

https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1623131/

Updates concerning anarchist prisoner Toby Shone (UK)

Updates concerning anarchist prisoner Toby Shone

December 20 2022

We receive and spread:

On the day of December 28th the “antiterrorism” unit of the British police will pick him up from Parc prison where he is presently locked up to take him to the ‘semi-open’ detention structure to do the last two years of his sentence. The restrictions that will be imposed on him are particularly severe and consist of semi-open detention: no possibility of contact with the other prisoners, a night curfew from 9pm to 7am, during which he cannot leave the structure, free exit during the rest of the day, but with an obligation to return to report at12 midday and 5pm.

During his free time he is forbidden to attend political demonstrations and meetings, or to associate with those generically defined/defined ‘left-wing extremists’. He will not be able to write on websites and will only be able to connect to the Internet at approved times and in a predetermined place. He will be able to have at most one mobile phone with a SIM card, which will be monitored. He will not be able to delete the history of his phone or computer.
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Italy: Update about the health condition of Alfredo Cospito on the 78th day of hunger strike

Update about the health condition of Alfredo Cospito on the 78th day of hunger strike (Italy, January 5, 2023)

On January 5th, the 78th day of the hunger strike to the bitter end against 41 bis prison regime and life imprisonment without possibility of parole, the antagonist radio station Radio Onda d’Urto broadcast a second speech by the doctor who is regularly visiting anarchist comrade Alfredo Cospito, imprisoned in the Bancali prison, in Sassari. As for the update on the 71st day of the hunger strike (December 29th), we report a transcript of the speech and the recording of the broadcast (in italian language):

“[…] All in all, Alfredo’s condition is good. He is holding the hunger strike in an unexpected way, perhaps because he started from a high weight, at the beginning he weighed 115 kg, while today he is 2 kg under the last time I saw him, so we are talking about 83.5 kg. All in all, he is absolutely lucid, well oriented in time and space, he only reports some pressure drops, especially when he gets up, and this is there because he is maintaining a slightly low pressure; however, not particularly, today he had a maximum of 105, a minimum of 70, so all in all a good pressure.
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Athens,Greece: (Whatever the decision, fire to every prison!) Freedom to comrades D. Chatzivassiliadis & V. Stathopoulos

Athens ; (Whatever the decision, fire to every prison!) Freedom to D. Chatzivassiliadis and  V. Stathopoulos

Power fears the revolutionary impulse and is on its knees when the revolutionary perspective for a new world, free and unconstrained, without slaves and hypocrisy, is born. The State begins to disintegrate when the will for its effective deconstruction begins in practice and as a whole. The prisoners of the war of liberation are the vanguard of the struggle and our solidarity is non-negotiable and unconditional.

We stand by the struggles of our comrades in the courts and in captivity. Our struggles against the violence of the State and capital do not stop in the courtrooms or in the prisons!

SOLIDARITY WITH THE HUNGER STRIKE SINCE 20/10 AGAINST 41-bis, OF ALFREDO COSPITO
SOLIDARITY WITH THE HUNGER STRIKE (& THIRST STRIKE FOR 18 DAYS) SINCE 19/12, OF THANOS HATZIANGGELOU
SOLIDARITY WITH THE 11 POLITICAL PRISONERS FROM TURKEY, INDEFINITE HUNGER STRIKERS SINCE 7/10
GREETINGS TO COMRADES DIMITRIS HATZIVASILIADIS & VANGELIS STATHOPOULOS
FIRE TO ALL CELLS!

All at the Court of Appeal (Loukareos) on Thursday 12 January, at 11.00

* In view of the day (12/1) of the announcement of the verdict in the case of anarchists Dimitris Chatzivasiliadis and Vanggelis Stathopoulos for participation in the Revolutionary Self-Defense Organization, we put up banners on Messologiou Street in Exarxeia area and on the bridge of Moustoxidis in athens.

Open Assembly of Ⓐanarchists

Translated by Act for freedom now!