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Greece: 28/7/22, Medical announcement for the hunger striker Giannis Michailidis

28/7, The condition of Giannis Michailidis in the last 24 hours and according to the recent medical examinations, has deteriorated rapidly. His hypoglycaemia is now very severe with blood sugar levels around 50. At any moment he may fall into a hypoglycaemic coma, which of course (since he is isolated outside the clinic in the special detention area) may not be noticed in time and may not be able to be brought back up in time.

Giannis
now – although he has a strong feeling of thirst – cannot drink a sufficient amount of water as even two sips cause gastroesophageal reflux. This results in severe dehydration, severe stress on the kidneys and severe pains in urination. The risk of renal failure is high and is exacerbated by metabolic disorders and severe ketoacidosis.

As a doctor, I address the Last Warm Request to the competent Judicial Council of the Court of Appeal of Lamia, towards an immediate and positive outcome of the case of Mr. Michailidis. Any further delay and negative decision will lead a young man to a certain, torturous and quick death.

The personal physician of Giannis Michailidis, Pantelia Vergopoulou

Director of EKAB – ESY, General Practitioner, Intensivist, Anesthetist

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Greece, URGENT : en/fr/, Negative decision of the Lamia council for the release of 67-day hunger striker Giannis Michailidis

Urgent : Negative decision of the Lamia council for the release of 67-day hunger striker Giannis Michailidis

The killers of the Lamia council appeal courts have issued a negative decision on the release of 67-day hunger striker anarchist comrade Giannis Michailidis. Their hands are stained with the blood of the poor, the oppressed, the fighters, and Giannis Michailidis… who demanding his freedom continues to fight from a hospital cell…

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‘’I think they are even using the hunger strike as an example now. They’ve set my appeal hearing for 25/7/. On that day I will have done 64 days’ hunger strike. The aim is clear. To exhaust me. A possible permanent disability reinforces the message they are sending. Perhaps my eventual death, which becomes more likely with each passing day. Such a perversion of the concept of justice is unthinkable. Let them enjoy their “justice”. Enjoy your careers.

As for me, who do not have access to their villas with their lavish tables paid for with bribes, I can greet this world fasting, but with the spiritual fullness of total existential conflict with their rotten system.’’

15/7/2022,

On hunger strike from 23/5, Giannis Michailidis

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FIRE TO THE PRISONS

DEATH TO THE STATE

Anarchists from Act for freedom now.

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Lamia (Grèce) : la cour d’appel refuse de relâcher Giannis Michailidis

Les assassins de la Cour d’appel de Lamia [qui devait statuer le 25 juillet] ont rendu une décision négative concernant la remise en liberté du compagnon anarchiste Giannis Michailidis, en grève de la faim depuis 67 jours. Leurs mains sont tâchés du sang des pauvres, des opprimés, des combattants, et de Giannis…, qui demande sa remise en liberté et continue de se battre depuis une cellule d’hôpital.

« Je pense qu’ils utilisent désormais ma grève de la faim comme un exemple. Ils ont fixé ma date d’appel pour le 25 juillet. Ce jour-là, j’en serais à mon 64e jour de grève de la faim. Leur objectif est clair. Celui de m’épuiser. Une possible invalidité permanente renforcerait le message qu’ils envoient. Peut-être même ma mort, qui devient toujours plus probable au fil des jours qui passent. Une telle perversion de la signification de la justice est impensable. Laissez-les profiter de leur « justice ». Je vous souhaite une bonne carrière.
Quant à moi, qui n’ai pas accès à leurs villas avec leurs tables somptueuses payées en pot-de-vin, je quitterai peut-être ce monde affamé, mais avec la plénitude spirituelle d’un conflit existentiel total avec leur système pourri. »
Giannis Michailidis, 15 juillet 2022
(en grève de la faim depuis le 23 mai)

Ndlr :
* un résumé de sa situation judiciaire et la lettre de Giannis d’entrée en grève de la faim du 23 mai 2022 se trouve ici,
* une lettre de Giannis du 11 juillet 2022, écrite depuis la cellule spéciale de l’hôpital de Lamia se trouve là
* on peut trouver ici (en anglais) une chronologie des nombreuses actions solidaires avec Giannis en Grèce et ailleurs

[Traduit de l’anglais de Act for Freedom now, 28 juillet 2022]

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Negative Entscheidung des Gerichts von Lamia bezueglich der Freilassung des seit 67 Tagen hungerstreikenden Giannis Michailidis

Heute hat das Gericht von Lamia in letzter Instanz ueber die Freilassung des Anarchistischen Hungerstreikenden Giannis Michailidis entschieden. Giannis wird nicht, auch nicht unter Auflagen, freikommen. Mit dieser Entscheidung haben sie das Todesurteil von Giannis unterschrieben. Sein Gesundheitszustand ist nach 67 Tagen im Hungerstreik extrem kritisch und er koennte jeden Moment sterben. Zudem hat das Ministerium fuer Buergerschutz vor einigen Tagen erlassen, dass die Polizei in diversen Stadteilen des Zentrums von Athen, Anlasslose Kontrollen, Video und Tonaufzeichnungen durchfuehren koennen. Eine Begruendung fuer diesen Erlass ist im offiziellen Schreiben nicht gegeben. Dieses Regelung soll vorerst bis zum 2. Oktober (!) andauern. Damit wird inoffiziell ein Ausnahmezustand verhaengt und der Bullenstaat taktisch eingefuehrt. Es ist ein weiteres Beispiel fuer den totalitaeren Authoritarismus des griechischen Staates und der regierung der Nea Dimokratia.
Gestern haben Anarchist*innen das Buero der ADEDY (Oberster Verband der Vereinigungen der öffentlichen Angestellten) im Zentrum von Athen besetzt. Dort finden aktuell Versammlungen und Kundgebungen statt.

Text von Indymedia Athen: https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1620166/

Negative Entscheidung des Gerichts von Lamia bezueglich der Freilassung des seit 67 Tagen hungerstreikenden Giannis Michailidis
Die Mörder des Gerichts von Lamia haben den Antrag auf Freilassung des seit 67 Tagen hungerstreikenden Giannis Michailidis abgelehnt: „Ihre Hände sind mit dem Blut der Armen, der Unterdrückten, der Kämpfer, Giannis Michailidis, beschmiert”.
In Kürze wird es ein ausführlicheres Update geben.
In der Zeit in der wir leben versuchen wir mit so viel wuerde wie moeglich gegen die ausbeutungen und pluenderungen die um uns herum geschehen, zu kaempfen. Gleichzeitig leben wir im Schatten von Staatsterror und kapitalistischer Ausbeutung.
Wir kämpfen gegen einen Staat, der Wildtiere ausrottet, Wälder verbrennt, Minen und Windparks in den Bergen errichtet. Wir kämpfen gegen einen Staat, der Meere, Seen, Quellen und sogar unseren lebensnotwendigen Sauerstoff verpestet. Wir kämpfen gegen einen Staat, der mordende polizisten, Faschisten deckt; Der reiche und beruehmte Persoenlichkeiten die Erwachsene und Minderjährige vergewaltigen, die zufällig ihrem Einfluss zum Opfer fallen, freilaesst.
Derselbe Staat, der arme, unbeugsame und politische Gefangene mit radikalen Positionen gegen das System in Haft hält. Derselbe Staat, der den Anarchisten und Hungerstreikenden Giannis Michailidis, der sich seit 67 Tagen im Hungerstreik befindet und seine Freiheit fordert, langsam und qualvoll vernichtet; derselbe Staat, den Giannis in Freiheit bekaempft hat und heute aus der Krankenhauszelle aus bekämpft.

ALLE ZUR KRISENSITZUNG IM BESETZTEN ΑΔΕΔΥ, HEUTE 28/7 UM 13:00
ALLE ZUR DEMONSTRATION GEGEN DIE WALDBRAENDE IN SYNTAGMA UM 19:00 UHR

„Ich glaube, sie benutzen jetzt auch den Hungerstreik als Beispiel und haben meine Berufungsanhörung für den 25.7. angesetzt. An diesem Tag werde ich 64 Tage des Hungerstreiks zählen. Der Zweck ist klar. Um mich zu erschöpfen. Die Wahrscheinlichkeit dass ich bleibende Schaeden davon tragen werde verstaerkt die Botschaft die Sie damit aussenden. Mein bevorstehender Tod wird mit jedem Tag wahrscheinlicher. Eine groessere Pervertierung des Begriffs der Gerechtigkeit ist undenkbar. Sollen sie doch ihre „Gerechtigkeit“ schaffen. Was mich betrifft, der ich keinen Zugang zu ihren Villen mit ihren dekadenten, mit Schmiergeldern bezahlten und gefuellten Tischen habe, kann ich diese Welt fastend begrüßen, aber mit der geistigen Vollkommenheit eines totalen und existenziellen Kampfes gegen ihr verrottetes System.“
15/7/2022, Giannis Michailidis, seit dem 23.05. im Hungerstreik

Solidaritaetsversammlung mit dem anarchistischen Hungerstreikenden Giannis Michailidis

Kontakt und E-Mail: mihallil@riseup.net

via: kontrapolis

URGENT: Critical health condition of 65-day hunger striker Giannis Michailidis (Greece)

On Monday 25 July, after 64 days of hunger strike, the court of appeal in Lamia held a hearing for his release. Although there was a commitment on the part of the council to issue the decision in time, we understand that the timeframe for respecting the hunger striker has passed. Indeed, they have been elapsed since the Amfissa council delayed a month in issuing its decision. Any further delay on the part of the Lamia council constitutes further torture and an attempt to eliminate our comrade.

As for his health, comrade Giannis Michailidis estimates that he will not be able to drink any water until Thursday, as his body is so badly damaged that he suffers constant palpitations, which make swallowing water impossible. He has now lost 20.6 pounds, more than 28% of his original body weight. In general he states that he has no strength, moves very little and has severe pain in his spleen, left kidney and chest. He is also forced to sleep sitting up due to constant stomach upsets. His blood sugar has dropped to 71 and his blood pressure is 8 and 6. He is very dizzy and cannot concentrate.
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South London,UK : ‘Life means intervention, decision, struggle, not to be a battery for the machine to work.’

This morning 25.7.22,some anarchists interrupted a commuter train on the Docklands Light Railway, connecting the (rapidly transforming) ghettoised districts of Newham and Lewisham to London’s financial centre.

Words from the heart were sprayed on the exterior of the train, especially the name of Giannis Michailidis. A banner carrying a quotation from his public letter from 2013 (‘Tracking my journey in the world of insurrection resistance and solidarity’) was hung from the rail bridge over the central junction of Deptford.

The following text was distributed by throwing hundreds of flyers into the train carrige and off the railway bridge:

Freedom is not an array of consumer choices and ‘experiences’. It consists in the living choice to take your life into your own hands in the struggle.
We can see what happens when, for years, each project of power is left to expand its tentacles over us.
– Neighbourhoods are wrecked to construct vacuum-sealed palaces for the pleasure and profit of the beneficiaries.
Continue reading South London,UK : ‘Life means intervention, decision, struggle, not to be a battery for the machine to work.’

Sweden: Attack against the Greek consulate in Malmö – solidarity with hunger striker Giannis Michailidis

Following the call to an international campaign for freedom of Giannis MichailidIs, we join the solidarity movement with our hunger striking comrade.

Michailidis is an anarchist, a bankrobber, a fugitive, a political prisoner, a hunger striker. A hunger striker whose life is in danger because the greek state decided to apply a state of exceptional imprisonment for him, that is, the practice of preventive custody. This is not a greek peculiarity. As the Berlin based Assembly in solidarity with Giannis MichailidIs notes “the last years Europe sees a practice of consolidating a classical police state, where people are getting judged on the base of their estimated potential to be dangerous to the state and its order”.

https://www.anarchistfederation.net/fight-class-justice-for-giannis-michailidis-and-all-prisoners-who-fulfill-the-conditions-of-release-berlin/

Michailidis remains in prison despite the fact that he has already been incarcerated for more than 8 years and has served 3/5 of his time, because “he is considered a “danger” and not because he is accused of a crime. He served his sentence but is kept as a hostage in preventive custody without accusation and without any hope to be released”.

Continue reading Sweden: Attack against the Greek consulate in Malmö – solidarity with hunger striker Giannis Michailidis

Italy: Banner in Greek embassy in Rome on 22/7/2022 – 59th day of hunger strike of the political prisoner Giannis Michailidis.

“THE ONLY STRUGGLE THAT WAS LOST IS THE ONE THAT WAS NEVER GIVEN”

“The struggle for the freedom of one, the struggle for the freedom of all.”

To stand in solidarity and support to the fight for freedom that Giannis Michailidis has embraced against a putrid system is to support the yell of one for many, for all those who are subjected to state oppression and its vengeance, against preventive imprisonment.

Despite having served the necessary terms for his release, preventive imprisonment is still decreed for him, in a totally arbitrary way, because he is not ‘sufficiently correct’ since he has not surrendered, he is insubordinate to their mechanism of maintaining and reproducingpower, he has taken up arms and turned them against the banks and thebase of the capitalist system. His struggle is an active struggle within the conflict, using his life as a weapon against the vindictive attack of the state. They want to drive him to physical extermination, killing him slowly and torturing him.
Continue reading Italy: Banner in Greek embassy in Rome on 22/7/2022 – 59th day of hunger strike of the political prisoner Giannis Michailidis.

Text – beginning of Anarchist prisoner V. Stathopoulos’ hunger strike for G. Michailidis

Text – beginning of V. Stathopoulos’ hunger strike for G. Michailidis

How sure are we that there is no death penalty in Greece?

Remaining imprisoned for three years in solidarity, I directly experience the vengeance of the prosecuting authorities in the cells of the alt-right government! What we are experiencing today as an Anarchist movement is clearly an open war on all fronts by the regime.

The current junta really shows who they are with their daily behaviour on the street, with repressive laws on marches and strikes, while authoritarianism has been imposed on the whole society, with a constant cruel police state. The vindictiveness against political opponents, those they consider dangerous to their plans, is aimed at their political extermination, going as far as the physical extermination of those who continue to resist.

Continue reading Text – beginning of Anarchist prisoner V. Stathopoulos’ hunger strike for G. Michailidis

Chile: Two years after our imprisonment. Words from Monica and Francisco from Prison

Two years after our imprisonment. Words from Monica and Francisco from Prison

We have always prioritized not having intermediaries when it comes to communicating, that no one speaks for us, and in these days that mark two years since those who sustain the hegemony of power and locked us in these cement pits called prisons, will be no exception.

This second year of imprisonment will bring with it the end of the investigative period of our legal process, that is to say that the period in which the prosecution and the ten plaintiffs were able to gather information against us will end. The closing of the investigation opens an intermediate process prior to the trial.

The judicial investigation against us has spared no resources; the police have made great efforts not to leave any loose ends. The aim is to give us an exemplary sentence that will frighten anyone who makes the practice of political violence their own, especially with regard to the placing and sending of explosive devices. Furthermore, we are not unknown to the powerful; on more than one occasion we have been seated in the dock, and in all of them we have made our anarchist position clear. Our current legal situation is closely linked to our previous judicial trials.
Continue reading Chile: Two years after our imprisonment. Words from Monica and Francisco from Prison

Santiago, Chile: Words of anarchist comrade Mónica Caballero Sepúlveda held hostage by the State in the San Miguel Prison


Words of anarchist comrade Mónica Caballero Sepúlveda held hostage by the State in the San Miguel Prison

The military dictatorship left large and deep scars on a part of the inhabitants of the territory denominated by the Chilean state, thanks to the state terrorism that spared nothing in crushing all those who could hinder the implementation of the new neoliberal model. This is how the harshest face of repression became known to the thousands who were imprisoned, tortured, murdered and disappeared.

The fear and wounds left by the agents of the state can paralyze anyone, I cannot and do not intend to judge or criticize those who have chosen to stay at home after having lived through torture and/or the loss and/or disappearance of a loved one. On the other hand, there are others who, full of scars, have shed their fear and stood up without victimhood against the system of terror and oblivion. Among these was Luisa.
Continue reading Santiago, Chile: Words of anarchist comrade Mónica Caballero Sepúlveda held hostage by the State in the San Miguel Prison

BREAKING: Significant deterioration of the health of Giannis Michaelidis – 61 days of hunger strike

Significant deterioration of the health of Giannis Michaelidis – 61 days of hunger strike

Anarchist comrade Giannis Michailidis is on hunger strike since 23/5, demanding his release. Today he completes 61 days of hunger strike without his request being accepted. His health condition has deteriorated greatly, as he has a very difficult time in getting out of bed, standing up, reading and writing, his spleen and gall pains are becoming more and more severe, while he has reached a point where it is difficult for him to drink much water.

His body weight has reached 54.1 kg. Having started the hunger strike at 73 kilos, he has now lost 19 kilos, 26% of his initial body weight. His high blood pressure is 9 and low is 6, and his blood sugar was measured at 67. Having lost over 25% of his initial body weight, and with his health indicators constantly deteriorating, his possibilities for permanent physical damage are now very high. At the moment, comrade Giannis Michailidis is on the verge of hypoglycemic shock and doctors are reporting that there is a possibility that he could fall into a coma. The state and judicial authorities are gambling with the life and integrity of anarchist Giannis Michailidis.
Continue reading BREAKING: Significant deterioration of the health of Giannis Michaelidis – 61 days of hunger strike

CHILE : ON ANARCHIST PRISONER MARCELO VILLARROEL’S SENTENCE COMPUTATION REVIEW HEARING

ON MARCELO VILLARROEL’S SENTENCE COMPUTATION REVIEW HEARING

Today, July 5, the sentence computation review hearing in favor of Marcelo Villarroel took place before Judge Carolina Gajardo, of the 7th Guarantee Court of Santiago. In this hearing, Marcelo’s defence denounced before the Court the illegality of the Gendarmerie’s action of increasing by 21 years the minimum time of his effective sentence to be eligible for parole. Before this modification, he could have applied for parole in December 2019. This action, covered by the modification of DL 321 by law 21.124 in December 2019, violates a series of fundamental guarantees, especially the non-retroactivity of criminal law and the principle of in dubio pro reo, established in the Constitution (art. 19 n3), in the Criminal Code (art. 18) and in a series of international human rights treaties ratified and prevailing in Chile.

The Prosecutor’s Office was also present, represented by prosecutor Arturo Gómez, who argued that Marcelo must still serve sentences of more than 30 years, given the sentences of the Military Prosecutor’s Office, and that this request of the defence had already been resolved in a negative manner by the Court on repeated occasions, and should therefore be rejected (despite the fact that this is the first action for sentence computation).
Continue reading CHILE : ON ANARCHIST PRISONER MARCELO VILLARROEL’S SENTENCE COMPUTATION REVIEW HEARING

From the southeast of Mexico: A letter to our comrade Giannis Michaildis in solidarity with his just struggle for his freedom

14/6/2022

From the southeast of the territory called Mexico May 14, 2022.

To our comrade Giannis Michaildis:

From this corner of the world we have learned of your struggle outside and inside prison. We see with great admiration these 11 years of dignified resistance that you carry in the face of the Greek state. Since 2011, when you were arrested for your heartfelt solidarity with the wanted anarchists, which put me in their position when they were arrested, turned into an incrimination for your actions.
Continue reading From the southeast of Mexico: A letter to our comrade Giannis Michaildis in solidarity with his just struggle for his freedom

Greece: EN/GR/ Update 20/7/21,about the health condition of the hunger striker Giannis Michailidis

EN: Comrade and hunger striker Giannis Michailidis today completes 59 days of hunger strike. He has lost more than 24% of his body weight, as he has gone from 73 kg on 23/5 to 55.5 kg today. The threat to his life is now very serious as his white blood cell count has dropped so far below the lower normal limit (value: 2.43 with a range of 4.60-10.2 K/μL) leading to immunodeficiency.

Platelets are also counted much lower than the lower normal limit (value: 90 with limits 142-424 K/μL) and Thrombocytopenia can cause serious and threatening internal bleeding. Based on his latest medical examinations and according to the treating physicians, he is at risk of serious osteoporosis and already feels pain in his joints. In addition, he has strong chest pain when trying to move around. He already has a possible permanent neurological problem in his eyes as the neurological examination showed diplopia in extremities due to lack of nutrients.

The latest radiological examinations and ultrasound examination (on 18/7) showed that the organs that are now at immediate risk of permanent damage are the bile and the spleen, with the latest one facing an additional burden as Giannis has congenital Mediterranean anaemia (thalassaemia).

Continue reading Greece: EN/GR/ Update 20/7/21,about the health condition of the hunger striker Giannis Michailidis