Solidarity with the 11 political prisoners and hunger strikers from Turkey | Symbolic hunger strike inside the prison

On 16 November, the appeal trial of 11 political prisoners from Turkey Ali Ercan Gökoğlu, Burak Agarmış, Hasan Kaya, Sinan Çam, Şadi Naci Özpolat, Halil Demir, Anıl Sayar, Harika Kızılkaya, Hazal Seçer, Sinan Oktay Özen and İsmail Zat, who have been imprisonment in Greek prisons since 19 March 2020, will begin.

During their trial in a special court, they were not allowed proper interpretation, the testimony of defence witnesses was interrupted several times by the court, they were attacked by the cops inside the courtroom and on 17 July 2021, they were sentenced to 33 years in prison each one, the main charge of participating in a “terrorist organisation”.
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Genoa, Operation Prometeo: Monday 14th November at 10am, solidarity presence at the court of Genoa

Presence in solidarity with Beppe, Natascia and Robert, still accused after the acquittal in first instance of having sent an explosive package to the ex-director of the DAP, Santi Consolo, and to two public prosecutors in Turin, Roberto Sparagna and Antonio Rinaudo, responsible for the conditions inside the prisons and the repression of many struggles.

In an increasingly hard moment for all prisoners; faced with the fact that prison sentences for revolutionaries are now around 30 years for actions that, incidentally, only resulted in damage to structures; that an anarchist comrade has been transferred to regime 41 bis (total isolation, the same as that previously imposed on communist revolutionaries) and that the only option for them is hunger strike, we express our closeness to the accused in this umpteenth trial.

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Hunger strike of anarchist GIannis MichaIlidIs as a sign of solidarity with the 11 fighters and hunger strikers from Turkey

On 7th of October, the 11 fighters from Turkey Ali Ercan Gökoğlu, Burak Agarmış, Hasan Kaya, Sinan Çam, Şadi Naci Özpolat, Halil Demir, Anıl Sayar, Harika Kızılkaya, Hazal Seçer, Sinan Oktay Özen and İsmail Zat started an indefinite hunger strike with the main demand of a fair trial.

From today, Saturday 12 November and for one week I am starting a hunger strike in support of their difficult struggle. Their trial starts this Wednesday 16 November in the courtroom of Korydallos prison.

I also want to send a signal of solidarity to the anarchist comrade Alfredo Cospito who has been on hunger strike since 20 October against the torture regime of article 41-bis, but also to the anarchist Anna Beniamino and the anarchists Juan Sorroche Fernandez and Ivan Alocco who are on hunger strike alongside him.

Giannis Michailidis

Declaration of start of hunger strike by anarchist Anna Beniamino.
7 November 2022

On October 20th, in the prison of Bancali (Sardinia), Alfredo Cospito began an all-out hunger strike against the 41 bis regime and life sentence without parole. The regime 41 bis was assigned to him from May this year, being accused of maintaining relations through correspondence and editorial activity with the anarchist movement through public writings and interventions from the Maximum Security section where he had been locked up for years.
Life imprisonment without parole is likely to be the outcome of the appeal – made by the cassation ruling of July 2022 of the Scripta Manent trial – for the recalculation of the sentence passed as 285 c. p., “political massacre”, for a double attack on the carabinieri school of Fossano, signed by FAI-RAT [Informal Anarchist Federation – Anonymous and Tremendous Revolt]. The sentence for 285 of the penal code constitutes the keystone of an accusatory architecture which established the existence of a “subversive association with terrorist aims” (made up of only three promoters and with a sporadic existence, to overcome contradictions due to the outcomes of previous trials) and the activity of ‘instigating’ through anarchist blogs and newspapers published over the past 20 years by those convicted.

In short, a monstrous sentence where one is head/factotum of an ‘association’ with uncertain contours, as well as instigators and perpetrators of a “massacre” that never happened and above all never defended as such. That is, as has been repeatedly stated in times past, revolutionary violence is defended by anarchists, and by me among them; massacre is not.

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