Text of Solidarity for the comrade Alfredo Cospito by the members of Revolutionary Struggle Pola Roupa and Nikos Maziotis
15/11/2022
The physical and moral extermination of revolutionary fighters and political prisoners, or the coercion of them into political renunciation and repentance, has been the goal of the State and capital throughout time. In order to achieve this aim, States have created special conditions of detention and isolation for those who took up arms against the regime, for those they call “terrorists”.
One example of special detention today is the Italian model under Article 41 bis. Under Italian law, the Minister of “Justice” is given the right to lift the rules of treatment of some prisoners and order their transfer to special conditions of detention. The special conditions based on Article 41 bis impose complete social and sensory isolation, limiting contacts with other prisoners, limiting visits to one (1) per month with relatives, not by physical contact but through a glass partition, limiting, prohibiting, correspondence and the possession of books, shrinking prisoners’ exercise period to one (1) hour per day and increasing the time of confinement inside the cell.
These conditions are a form of torture aimed at crushing militant prisoners and in general those under this regime.
Anarchist comrade Alfredo Cospito, who is convicted for actions of the Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI-Informale), has been under this regime since May 5, 2022 in Bancali prison (in Sassari) in Sardinia on orders of the former Minister of “Justice” Marta Cartabia. The comrade has been on hunger strike against the solitary confinement regime since 20th October.Three comrades have also been on hunger strike in solidarity with comrade Alfredo, Juan Sorroche since October 25th, Ivan Alocco imprisoned in France since October 27th and Anna Beniamino since November 7th.
This repressive policy of States using special conditions of detention is something that has been going on for decades and has developed and grown.
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