Category Archives: Revolutionary Prisoners News

FREEDOM TO ANARCHIST GIANNIS MICHAILIDIS – GATHERING – SOLIDARITY MARCH SATURDAY 9 APRIL 20:00 PM ΕXΑRCHEIA SQUARE (Athens,Greece)

GATHERING-SOLIDARITY MARCH
SATURDAY 9 APRIL 8PM ΕXΑRCHIA SQUARE
FREEDOM TO ANARCHIST GIANNIS MICHAILIDIS
STRUGGLE FOR THE RELEASE OF POLITICAL PRISONERS
Anarchist prisoner Giannis Michailidis has been imprisoned for more than 8 and a half years in the cells of democracy and 3 years in fugitive status in two different periods. His consistent commitment to the anarchist struggle, his unrepentant stance in front of the executioners of bourgeois justice, his practical questioning of the world of power and bourgeois legitimacy has put him in the crosshairs of the repressive and judicial mechanisms for years.
Giannis was prosecuted on the basis of a trumped-up charge of the mass revolt of the prisoners of Korydallos prison against the violent seizure of the then hunger-striking anarchist prisoner Dinos Giagtzoglou.
A persecution that targeted, without any evidence beyond solidarity texts, all the political prisoners of that period in order to put them in a new regime of hostage-taking, discontinued leaves, transfer from rural prisons, etc. Faced with the risk of prolonging his imprisonment and being transferred from the rural prisons where he was being held Giannis chose freedom, making an escape that allowed him to walk the paths of freedom for which he has fought consistently and at great cost throughout his life.

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France. Telephone interview with Claudio Lavazza

March 6, 2022
(Taken from Radiocane)
Q: Listeners have probably already had the opportunity to learn about the events that you have lived throughout your long imprisonment in Spanish jails from reading your biography. Let’s start now with the case that led to your current detention in France. What facts does this case refer to?
A: Yes, I have a 10-year sentence set by the Paris Criminal Court on November 8, 2019, for armed robbery and kidnapping. This sentence was recently reduced, a week ago, to five years. And my release date is scheduled for May 16, 2025, so three years from now. This is due to a calculation of the credits for sentence reduction made by the Mont-de-Marsan Prosecutor’s Office, starting from 30 years instead of 25 as the legal limit for the accumulation of sentences in the Spanish system. Well, if this limit had been established by the Public Prosecutor’s Office, if this limit had been enforced, I would have had to be released Continue reading France. Telephone interview with Claudio Lavazza

#54, the March 2022 episode of BAD News: Angry Voices From Around The World.

Episode 54 (03/2022)
Welcome to #54, the March 2022 episode of BAD News: Angry Voices From Around The World. This is the monthly, English-language podcast by the A-Radio Network of anarchist and anti-authoritarian radios, podcasts and stations.
This month:
  1. A-Radio Berlin shares part of an interview with members of the Gorillas Workers Collective, which is organizing at the app-driven food delivery system around Berlin, Germany, about employment, data collection, precarity and labor organizing;
  2. Then, you’ll hear updates about anarchist prisoners, hunger strikes and releasees in Greece from Free Social Radio 1431 AM out of Thessaloniki;
  3. Following this, you’ll hear perspectives from a queer anarchist in Kyiv from 4 days after the Russian invasion began conducted by A-Radio Vienna in Austria;
  4. Finally, you’ll hear comrades at Črna Luknja in Ljublana, Slovenia, with an anarcho-syndicalist in Belgrade, Serbia about the role of NATO in the war in Ukraine, the need for revolution against all governments involved.
You can learn more about the network, the participants, past episodes of BAD News and how to get your project involved at A-Radio-Network.org
You can directly download it from archive.org here

UPDATES FROM THE TRIAL OF ERIC KING ACQUITTED (USA)

On 3-18-2022,
3 years 7 months 6 days and 4 hours,
after being dragged into a closet,
off camera,
and beaten,
illegally restrained for 7+ hours, given diesel therapy
held indefinitely in segregation,
2 years of communication restrictions,
years without phone, without visits. commissary,
after orchestrated attacks,
after being dragged into the shower, handcuffed,
and dumped on his head, stitches,
inadequate medical care,
Covid X2,
a 4 day federal trial,
attended by a multitude of government agents, 8 federal guards testifying against him,
The majority of whom have beaten him
at one point or another, a bird flooding h is cell,
and destroying  his legal  paperwork, after almost 12 hours of  deliberation,
AT 5:52 ERIC KING WAS  ACQUITTED
source

Bois-d’Arcy Prison, Yvelines, France: Libre Flot hunger strike updates

Libre Flot started his hunger strike on Sunday 27 February 2022, you can read his demands here.
Since then he has only been drinking water and tea, he has been eating broth and fruit juice from canteen to supplement his nutritional intake. He systematically refuses the meal trays that are brought to him every day. We were able to give him advice on how to cope.
He had a visit from the director of the prison on the first day, since then he has regular appointments with a doctor who takes his blood pressure, checks his weight etc… His heart rate has dropped by half, so he decided to stop doing sport (i.e. walking on a conveyor) since 9 March and to go out for a “walk” (a 20m2 cage on the roof of the prison) because of the cold.

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Thanos Xatziagkelou: Taking responsibility for participation in the Anarchist Action Organization( Koridallos prison,Greece)

Thanos Xatziagkelou -On the intransigent organization of Anarchist Action
Every 10th of March time pins the minute markers to zero. There are no hours, only moments of reflection on the burden of responsibility that each and every one of us carries in the continuation of the revolutionary event. For the moral, political and militant duty in the revolutionary war. A crack like a battle cry, in a night where death has conquered fear. The physical death we so lament – in the world of death – is less pernicious than the death that is marketed as life.
12 Marches ago, comrade and member of the Revolutionary Struggle, Lambros Fountas, was executed in a gunfight in Daphne by a crew of uniformed terrorists during a preparatory action by the organization. Lambros lived his entire life on the front lines of the anti-authoritarian conflict – with paper, with flag, with gun in hand. That’s how he breathed his last breath in the last battle, on the front line. In life a thunderbolt and in death a wolf. Lambros is the fuse of revolutionary intolerance and will live on in the flames of revolutionary violence. From the fires of the urban metropolitan fields to the guerrilla blasts in the mountains of the Middle East and Latin America.
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USA: Trial in a week! And words from Eric King

Trial in a week! And words from Eric

“There’s something happening here, something special for certain.
It begins with trees and bugs and grows into communities built on trust.
it revolves around the idea that we can cause their destruction with our growth.
it starts with love and grows with the flowers. Ands with the stars burning us all to dust

🖤

March 14th “

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Greece: In Honour for ever of Comrade Lambros Fountas ,text from Imprisoned Revolutionary Struggle Members Pola Roupa and Nikos Maziotis

HONOUR FOREVER TO COMRADE LAMBROS FOUNTAS
As long as there are states, war will break out,
as long as there is capitalism there will be bloodshed.
On 10/3/2010, our comrade Lambros Fountas was murdered by a guard of the state during the preparation of an action by Revolutionary Struggle and within the context of a struggle to prevent the imposition of anti-social measures to save the economic and political system of power from the crisis, to prevent the advance of the memorandum policies.
12 years after the death of our comrade, we have moved even further along the same destructive path that the system of capitalism and the state has set for humanity and the planet, passing from one catastrophic crisis to another.
Without the economic systemic crisis having been overcome, but lying dormant waiting for sparks to ignite it, the coronavirus pandemic has broken out, reminding us how close to the extinction of the human species capitalism and the destruction of nature that accompanies its development has brought us. And without the pandemic being over (who expects the threat of viruses to end?), a new global threat is emerging, that of war, which is a genuine child of capitalism and states. The fear of a nuclear war, a disaster for all humanity, has been awakened by the war in Ukraine, reminding us that as long as there are states, as long as there is competition for their domination and expansion, the danger of a world war will always be present.

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Moscow Anarchist Black Cross updates, March 2022

War in Ukraine has already increased the level of repressions in Russia, but there are not yet any new criminal proceedings against anarchist or anti-fascist activists. In this new exceptional situation, we are channeling some of our resources to humanitarian needs which go beyond our usual narrow focus of supporting repressed anarchists and anti-fascists.
In picture: action of Left Bloc activists against FSB.
Plenty have been arrested in demonstrations and fined, or slapped with an immediate 15 day prison sentence. More serious charges may be pressed anytime soon. But until then, we are following up on anarchists and anti-fascists who have already been facing repression before the war.
But the good news first.
Chelyabinsk anarchists released
This is already old news, but on 24th of November the court of appeal revoked the sentence of two Chelyabinsk anarchists, Anastasia Safonova and Dmitry Tsibukovski, who were given prison sentences of 2 and 2.5 years respectively for ”hooliganism”, after they hung a banner with the text ”FSB is the main terrorist”. Their criminal case was returned to the local court, so a new sentence is possible. It is extremely unusual that political sentences in Russia are overturned through an appeal. Until the new process, Safonova and Tsibukovski are under several restrictions.

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