12/6/23 Refusal of hospitalisation of comrade hunger and thirst striker Giannis Michailidis from 2 hospitals because he does not accept medical interventions

For the last 48 hours a dirty game has been played on the back of the comrade Giannis Michailidis. While his weight loss and vital signs (blood pressure, blood sugar, oxygen) are very bad, leading Korydallos prison itself to signal the transfer of the comrade to an external hospital, in at least two cases he has been denied hospitalisation because he does not accept any medical interventions that involve an interruption of his hunger strike, and thirst strike for three days now.

The first case was at the State Hospital of Nice two days ago and the last yesterday at Attiko.

The hospitalisation of a hunger or thirst striker is related to the monitoring of the deterioration of their health, tests that record their condition (blood tests, cardiograms, etc.). Refusing hospitalisation due to non-acceptance of intrusive medical procedures that put an end to a striker’s struggle is moral pressure and blackmail in order to make him break down and renounce, which is totally unethical by medical standards.

In this condition the whole situation of continuous transfers of the comrade back and forth between hospitals and prisons is in itself a further torture, added to the ongoing mockery of him by the State and judicial authorities.

The Attikon Hospital and Nikaia Hospital directorates are also responsible for the comrade’s suffering and will be called to account if anything happens to him during the next days, as will any other hospital directorate that again refuses to admit him.

Immediate release of anarchist Giannis Michailidis On Hunger strike from 12/5/25  and thirst strike from 10/6/23

Assembly of solidarity with the anarchist hunger striker Giannis Michailidis in Greece.

Translated by Act for freedom now!