URGENT: Critical health condition of 65-day hunger striker Giannis Michailidis
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.
The rejection of decisions and proposals so far, and the fact that the council was set on a date when the comrade was on 64 days of hunger strike, blatantly shows that the state and bourgeois justice have two weights and measures. They exterminate, torture and force to death an anarchist militant, while releasing scum murderers and rapists such as Korkoneas, Filippidis, Horterias, Leventis and Lignadis. Justice is class-based, and it is our responsibility to bring justice to the streets by joining forces and fighting actively to end the extermination of Giannis Michailidis. To rally and fight with all our strength for the release of our comrade. To support and accompany the solidarity calls of the coming days:
GATHERING AT SYNTAGMA ON TUESDAY 26/7 AT 19:00
SOLIDARITY ASSEMBLY: Tuesday 26/7, 20:30, Strefi Theatre
We warn the judicial authorities and make it clear that the delay of the decision or the possibility of a rejection by the Lamia council is tantamount to state murder of anarchist comrade Giannis Michailidis. We therefore emphatically emphasise the weight of responsibility that weighs on this decision and the timing of the decision.
IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF ANARCHIST GIANNIS MICHAILIDIS
Against the regime of exemption of political prisoners
THE STRUGGLE FOR THE FREEDOM OF ONE IS A STRUGGLE FOR THE FREEDOM OF ALL
“I think now even the hunger strike is being used as an example. They set the date of my appeal for 25/7. On that day I will count 64 days of hunger strike. The purpose is clear. To exhaust me. A possible 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”. As for me, who do not have access to their villas with their exuberant tables paid for with kickbacks, I may greet this world fasting, but with the spiritual fullness of total existential conflict with their rotten system.”
15/7/2022,
Hunger strike from 23/5, Giannis Michailidis
Assembly of solidarity with the anarchist hunger striker Giannis Michailidis
assembly email : mihallil@riseup.net
Source: athens.indymedia