Category Archives: Revolutionary Prisoners News

Madrid (Spain): End of the Bankia affair

On October 29, 2018, we, two anarchists comrades from Madrid, were arrested, accused of the incendiary sabotage of a Bankia ATM, which had taken place on April 13 of the same year. The action was in solidarity with Lisa, who had been sentenced to 7 years for a bank robbery in Aachen (Germany) – at present she is on parole.
There was an agreement between the parties: 1 year suspended prison sentence for each comrade and 7000 euros civil liability, paid before the trial.

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Update about Anarchist prisoner Toby Shone (UK)

Actforfree received by email:
Justice for Anarchist Prisoner Toby Shone!
Anarchist prisoner Toby Shone is being held in the Category B facility HM Prison Parc, a privately run prison in South Wales, despite being in reality a Category C or D prisoner who was eligible for Release on Temporary License (ROTL) on 21 January 2022, according to paperwork he received on 26th March 2022. ROTL is home leave from prison in preparation for release. Category B prisoners are not eligible for home leave.
Despite being found Not Guilty of political offences in court and with no evidence linking him to the website and publication 325.nostate.net, Toby is being held without legal process and without possibility of
redress as a Category B, High Risk prisoner where he is not eligible for ROTL (home leave). A probation official told Toby previously that his categorisation is a consequence of his anarchist beliefs, and the fact that he is considered by the authorities to act on those beliefs. This decision has been taken at a level above the Offender Management Unit (OMU) which is the unit Toby personally deals with.

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Call to Action: International Day Of Solidarity April 4th, 2022

On Dec 8, 2020 a group of seven people were arrested by the French state for alleged terrorist association. All but one of them have been released with no specific charges beyond ‘criminal conspiracy,’ a charge that can be used to enhance sentences and strip away rights. Libre Flot was transferred to solitary confinement days after his arrest and is the only one of those arrested still behind bars.
Throughout his incarceration, the French state has attempted to say that Flot’s actions of joining the liberatory struggle against the Islamic State is the same as those who traveled to Syria to join ISIS.
As of Feb 27, Flot began a hunger strike in protest of the 14-plus months of pretrial detention, the allegation that seven people who did not even know one another committed a conspiracy, and the attempts of the French state to assert that those who fought the Islamic State are no different than the ISIS members they opposed.

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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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