Indefinite Captivity Regime

Athens, Greece: Arson attack on Hertz van in solidarity with anarchist hunger striker Giannis Michailidis

Posted on 2022/07/18 - 2022/07/22 by darknights

The anarchist hunger striker G. Michailidis has been on hunger strike since 23/5 demanding his just demand for release after serving 3/5 of his sentence. For the past 2 months he has received rejection decisions for his just request, while he continues his hunger strike until today with the risk of suffering irreparable damage to his physical health.

At the same time, the state is taking provocative decisions by acquitting notorious and socially reprehensible cases of people in the system such as Hortaria, Leventis, Korkoneas, Filippidis and Lignadis.The above cases happen to take on dimensions because of the fame of the accused. The state protects and exonerates its own people and its supporters, which is a constant condition. The responsibility of the pro-democratic classes is to remind again and again of their capitalist and patriarchal values. Property is a sacred value of what exists, therefore destruction and vandalism are criminal acts. In contrast, rape of women and minors, state murder at the hands of cops are not so valuable to the state and justice. This was the message we were conveyed by the decisions of their courts in the last period of time. It is probably no coincidence that these decisions were made at this particular time and circumstance. On the other hand, the authorities are avenging and exterminating political prisoners, migrants, Roma and poor people by extending the time of their incarceration, without any regard for their procedural and human rights.Let us be clear, we are talking about a war of different worlds and values without any suspensions, which is why we do not believe in any rule of law.

So as an indicative warning for the next decision of the Lamia council on 25/7 we decided on the 7th week of the hunger strike, at dawn on Monday 11/7, the flame of the solidarity struggle will wrap a van of the car rental company Hertz in the area of Vyronas. Hertz supplies the Greek police forces with cars and offers special conditions of suppressive forces worldwide. Removing the Hertz label from the cars of the OPKE is not enough. Hertz is an enemy of the struggle against repression. We are here, following your steps and your movements; nothing will go unanswered.

Solidarity with the hunger strikers G. Michailidis, D. Hatzivassiliadis, D. Giagtzoglou.

Until the hanging of each cage

The struggle for the freedom of the one is a struggle for the freedom of all

Anarchists

Source: athens. indymedia

Athens, Greece: Responsibility claim for incendiary attack on bank in solidarity with G. Michailidis by Anarchists

Posted on 2022/07/17 - 2022/07/17 by darknights

The anarchist prisoner G. Michailidis has been on hunger strike since 23/5 demanding the release he is entitled to and is already in danger of suffering permanent damage to his health. After the negative proposal of the prosecutor, the judicial authorities prolonged the torture of Giannis, setting the Lamia council that will meet for his release on Monday 25 July, the 64th day of our comrade’s hunger strike.

Alongside the intensifying torture of the captive comrade, the judicial system blatantly confirms its role as a mechanism for the maintenance and reproduction of class power and its culture. It releases the killer cop of the anarchist Alexandros Grigoropoulos, Korkoneas, the serial rapist Filippidis, the petty bourgeois murderer of Zackie, Horteria, acquits the big-time Leventis for the gang rape of Georgia Bika and gives parole to the serial child rapist, director of the national theatre, Lignadis. The message is clear. The bodies of the oppressed have no value against the appetites of the powerful and their praetorians. Those who belong to the ruling classes can murder and violate the bodies of the oppressed and bourgeois justice is there to reward them, to acquit them, to give them extenuating circumstances, to find them unsuspecting of committing new crimes.

On the contrary, comrade Giannis Michailidis is persecuted, tortured and remains indefinitely imprisoned and suspected of committing new crimes. Precisely because he did not use violence against those from below, but instead took up arms and turned them against the ruling classes and their temples. The temples of the reproduction of capital, of the exploitation and enslavement of our lives. The banks, the pillars of the capitalist system of power that for years, in order to maintain themselves at all costs, our lives have been torn apart by wage cuts, unemployment, home foreclosures, economic exclusion and misery.

As a sign of minimal practical solidarity with Giannis’ struggle, as a sign of our solidarity, we mounted an attack on the National Bank of Greece on G. Avxentiou Street in Ilisia, placing an incendiary device and causing damage to the exterior wall and an internal auxiliary room of the bank.

Let us make it clear that we will be, alongside Giannis, once again the cutting edge, which, even if only temporarily, will inevitably penetrate the murderous class that sustains this system of generalized enslavement and exploitation of (human and non-human) nature…

Victory in the struggle of Giannis Michailidis

Solidarity and strength to the captured comrades, hunger strikers in solidarity with G. Michailidis, Dimitris Hatzivassiliadis and Dinos Giagtzoglou.

Until the demolition of the last cage

Long live anarchy

Anarchists

Source: athens.indymedia

Thessaloniki, Greece: Solidarity broadcast (telephone communication) with the anarchist hunger striker Giannis Michailidis

Posted on 2022/06/03 by darknights

FRIDAY 3/6 AT 17.30 ON FREE SOCIAL RADIO 1431AM / www.1431am.org

This Friday, the anarchist Giannis Michailidis, who started a hunger strike on 23/5, will go on air on the free social radio 1431AM. For our part, as a minimal sign of practical solidarity, we support the comrade who, with his body as his only weapon, is fighting for his liberation from the dungeons of bourgeois democracy.

FREEDOM TO THE ANARCHIST HUNGER STRIKER GIANNIS MICHAILIDIS

PRISON FIRE

FIRE ON POWER

RESISTANCE AGAINST THE AUTHORITY

antistasi@espiv.net

Thessaloniki, Greece: Intervention in “Kokkino” radio stationand Avgi as part of the nationwide day of solidarity actions against Giannis Michailidis

Posted on 2022/06/02 by darknights

Intervention in solidarity with the anarchist hunger striker G. Michailidis took place in the context of the nationwide day of action on Thursday morning 2/6 at the radio station “Sto Kokkino” in Thessaloniki.

During the intervention, leaflets were thrown and texts were distributed on Venizelos Street, while the programme was interrupted to play a recorded text of solidarity.

Immediate release of hunger striker G. Michailidis

Victory in the – since 23/5 – hunger strike by

All and everyone at the microphone solidarity meeting Thursday 2/6 at 19.00 Gounari & Tsimiski

Below is the text of the intervention:

Giannis Michailidis, has been in Greek prisons since 2013, and has been arrested in the past during clashes in anti-war and anti-state/anti-capitalist demonstrations. From his participation in anarchist student groups in his teenage years to the student struggles of 2006-2007 and December and from the struggles against the memoranda to a series of prisoners’ struggles, the comrade has fought and continues to fight against the state and capitalist dystopia without renouncing his ideas, without repenting for his choices.

Giannis continues to be imprisoned even though he has served the required sentence for his conditional release and the disciplinary sentence as well as the detention sentence (which is not merged) for the disciplinary offence of escape, and since Monday 23 May he has been on hunger strike against his vindictive treatment, demanding his freedom, putting his health and life at risk. Continue reading “Thessaloniki, Greece: Intervention in “Kokkino” radio stationand Avgi as part of the nationwide day of solidarity actions against Giannis Michailidis” →

Athens, Greece: Intervention at ΕΣΗΕΑ (Athens Daily Newspaper Editors Union) in solidarity with the hunger strike of anarchist comrade Giannis Michailidis

Posted on 2022/06/02 - 2022/06/02 by darknights

10th DAY OF THE HUNGER STRIKE OF GIANNIS MICHAILIDIS

Update from today’s intervention at ESIEA

The assembly in solidarity with the hunger striker Giannis Michailidis, who has been on hunger strike since 23/5, held an intervention today at the ESIEA building, in order to give visibility to the struggle of his comrade. As soon as the intervention started, the vice president of ESIEA was negative even with the hanging of the banner. We made it clear to him that we had come with the specific purpose of highlighting the hunger strike and that we would leave when we felt that the comrade’s hunger strike had been sufficiently highlighted. He threatened us that he would call the police and we replied that we would not leave the building until we had left safely and had achieved our purpose. He ordered all the telephone lines and computers in the building to be shut down to prevent the propaganda of the action.

We are not in a position to know if the vice president ultimately called the cops or if they came on their own. Two Delta groups (Motorcycle cops) came to the scene and even without any legitimacy they entered the ground floor and threatened us with arrest. We re-stated that we would not leave unless the police forces left.The determination of the solidarity groups to remain in the building made it clear to the president that in order to end the intervention the cops had to leave.

The banner was hung from the rooftop and leaflets were thrown.

About the choice to intervene in the ESIEA

We have no illusions about the mainstream media. However, against the constant tactic of the state apparatus to silence the hunger strikes, we had to intervene in order to make the demand for the immediate release of Giannis Michailidis heard. The regime media that wrote about the intervention did not post the text. Continue reading “Athens, Greece: Intervention at ΕΣΗΕΑ (Athens Daily Newspaper Editors Union) in solidarity with the hunger strike of anarchist comrade Giannis Michailidis” →

Greece: Giannis Michailidis – Announcement of a hunger strike for my release GR, EN, DE, IT, FR, ES

Posted on 2022/06/02 - 2022/08/03 by darknights

GR: Γιάννης Μιχαηλίδης: Ανακοίνωση έναρξης απεργίας πείνας με στόχο την αποφυλάκιση μου

After 8.5 years in prison, after all these arbitrary actions against me, I decided to put an end to my 11 years of suffering, by putting a stop to the practice of pre-trial detention, or the additional punishment of escape through legal loopholes. After 5 more months of pre-trial detention, I start a hunger strike for my release. This choice, with the deep motivation of the much desired freedom, I intend to support it with the same consistency that I have supported my choices so far and for which I am being persecuted.

“Woe to those who will accept prison as a condition of life, and from the brightest sunlight, the smallest ray” – The rallying cry of the Alikarnassos prison uprising

For 11 years I have experienced state vengeance against choices in line with my values and ideas. The difficult journey, from which I choose to share some blatant vengeful acts of arbitrariness against me, began in the distant 2011, when an arrest warrant was issued against me for the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire case, for which I was eventually acquitted as there was not the slightest connection between me and the charge against me. It was the incrimination of a relationship of solidarity with wanted anarchists that put me in their place when they were arrested.

After 2 years of being on the run, I too am now walking through the heavy doors of prison, as the existence of a warrant that entails a decade of incarceration has led to certain choices and consequent mistakes. The comrades who were arrested at the time in the bank robbery in Velvento, Kozani, were tortured by the police, which is common, and then the Ministry of Public Order published photos of our swollen faces, provoking a public reaction. Of course, no police officer was accused of this by the blind Greek justice system. Continue reading “Greece: Giannis Michailidis – Announcement of a hunger strike for my release GR, EN, DE, IT, FR, ES” →

Athens, Greece: Intervention at the Athens Bar Association for the anarchist hunger striker Giannis Michailidis

Posted on 2022/06/01 by darknights

27-05-2022

This morning, comrades held an intervention at the Athens Bar Association in solidarity with the anarchist hunger striker Giannis Michailidis. A banner was hung from the floor, banners were thrown, and texts were distributed to inform about the comrade’s hunger strike.

“The comrade’s demand for his immediate release is a struggle to break the vindictive practice of preventive incarceration and acquires special weight because political prisoners, due to their political choices, are the frontline of the social – class war. The struggle of the comrade for his release is therefore not a narrow struggle that concerns him exclusively. It is a militant choice as a whole against a regime of exclusion arbitrarily and abusively imposed against any prisoner who has a decent attitude, but more specifically against the regime of exclusion against political prisoners, anarchists or communists. It is an integral part of the struggle for a world without prisons and barbed wire, without borders and concentration camps, without the plundering and destruction of the planet by the multinationals, without class exploitation, without rich and poor, without gender and racial oppression.

THE INDEFINITE DETENTION OF THE HUNGER STRIKER MUST BE ENDED IMMEDIATELY

IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF THE ANARCHIST HUNGER STRIKER FROM 23/5 GIANNIS MICHAILIDIS

GIANNIS STAY STRONG UNTIL LIBERATION

Assembly of solidarity with the anarchist hunger striker Giannis Michailidis

Source: athens.indymedia

Greece: Text of Solidarity for the hunger striker Giannis Michailidis by Giannis Dimitrakis

Posted on 2022/06/01 by darknights

The militant and conscious start of the struggle that comrade Giannis Michailidis began on May 23, as a hunger striker, claiming his freedom from the prison hellholes, can only find me in solidarity with him, and, to the extent possible, with every means and way by his side. Unfortunately, my state of health does not allow me to unite words with action, so that I can accompany his struggle, for a short or long period, with a hunger strike.

I want to hope that the knowledge and experience gained a year ago from the movement, when it clashed with the same state mechanisms to justify D. It has left those who participated with a qualitative basis on which to recombine thought and action in more effective ways, leading collective solidarity to rise again as our weapon against the authoritarian rodents, like a sharp blade, cutting the state chains that vindictively hold a comrade captive and opening the way to freedom.

Good strength, all of us together have nothing and no one to fear.

The fear for freedom is stronger than all the others (fear in the heart belongs more to the bosses)

SOLIDARITY IS OUR WEAPON

Giannis Dimitrakis

Domokos Prison 27-05-22

Source: athens.indymedia

Event updates for the hunger strike of anarchist comrade Giannis Michailidis

Posted on 2022/06/01 - 2022/08/03 by darknights

27th July

URGENT Athens, Greece: Occupation at ADEDY (Civil Servants’ Confederation) in solidarity with the hunger striker G. Michailidis

– Thessaloniki, Greece: Occupation of the Thessaloniki Labour Centre for G. Michailidis by Assembly of solidarity with the hunger striker G. Michailidis (Thessaloniki)

– Greece: Statement of support to hunger striker G. Michailidis, by prisoner students at the Malandrinos SDE

TO: MINISTRY OF JUSTICE

SUBJECT: SUPPORT FOR GIANNIS MICHAILIDIS

We request that the requests of Giannis Michailidis be accepted. Immediate release.

Giannis Michailidis is deprived of this basic right of freedom. As a protest, he has been on hunger strike since 23 May 2022 and is now on the verge of death.

THAT HIS DEMANDS BE IMMEDIATELY ACCEPTED

26/7/2022

Malandrinos Second Chance School students

– Athens, Greece: Slogans at the town hall of Nikaia in solidarity with the anarchist hunger striker G. Michailidis

26th July

– URGENT: Critical health condition of 65-day hunger striker Giannis Michailidis

– Athens, Greece: Responsibility claim for an arson attack on a porsche by ‘Children of chaos’

– Patras, Greece: Responsibility claim for arson actions in solidarity with the anarchist hunger striker Giannis Michailidis

– Agrinio, Greece: Intervention for Giannis Michailidis at the concert of Giannis Angelakas.

Video of intervention

– Heraklion, Crete, Greece: The occupation of the Heraklion Town Hall continues in solidarity with G. Michailidis. The occupation of the Heraklion Town Hall continues for a second day with a book baazar at the Loggia site and with an assembly scheduled for today at 6 pm to organize the next actions.

– Greece: End of the hunger strike of Dimitris Hatzivassiliadis (in solidarity with comrade Giannis Michailidis)

Today Tuesday 26 July I am ending my hunger strike as a way of solidarity with my fellow hunger striker Giannis Michailidis.

Giannis is lying on the wings of Hitchcock’s birds.

UNCEASING STRUGGLE FOR ANARCHY BY ALL MEANS

Dimitris Hatzivassiliadis

25th July

– Athens, Greece: Multiple direct actions claimed in solidarity with anarchist hunger strike Giannis Michailidis

– Lamia, Greece: 150 comrades hold a rally outside the Court of Appeal in Lamia. The decision for whether the comrade will be released is delayed until Friday 29th prolonging the hunger strike and making it clear the state’s murderous intentions on the comrade’s life.

-South London, UK: ‘Life means intervention, decision, struggle, not to be a battery for the machine to work.’

– Heraklion, Crete, Greece: Occupation of Heraklion Town Hall in solidarity with hunger striker G. Michailidis

Since early this morning the Heraklion Town Hall is under occupation in solidarity with the hunger striker Giannis Michailidis, who has been on hunger strike since 23/05. The space is accessible and people are invited to support it.

– Chania, Crete, Greece: Occupation of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Chania, in view of the meeting of the Judicial Council of Lamia.

Immediate release of the anarchist Yannis Michaelides, hunger striker from 23 May 2022

After more than 60 days of hunger strike, today 25 July, the Judicial Council of Lamia is meeting once again to request his release. After the previous rejections of his request, comrade Giannis Michailidis is now in immediate danger of serious permanent damage to his health. We have no illusions about civil justice and its role. For our part, as a minimal act of solidarity, we proceeded to occupy the Chamber of Commerce & Industry of Chania.

The struggle for the freedom of one is a struggle for the freedom of all, until the last cage is torn down.

Occupation of the Chamber of Commerce, Chania 25/7/2022

– Xanthi, Greece: Spray at the courthouse for G. Michailidis

– Amorgos, Greece: Banner of solidarity with Giannis Michailidis, hunger striker since 23/05

Continue reading “Event updates for the hunger strike of anarchist comrade Giannis Michailidis” →

Athens, Greece: Update from the march in solidarity with Anarchist G. Michailidis, in Exarcheia area on 9 April 2022

Posted on 2022/04/14 - 2022/04/14 by darknights

On Saturday 9 April, 2022 following the call of the assembly of solidarity with the imprisoned, persecuted and fugitive militants, more than 200 comrades gathered at Exarcheia Square in solidarity with the anarchist prisoner Giannis Michailidis.

During the meeting, which lasted about an hour and a half, the text of the assembly was read, texts were distributed and fliers thrown. Then a march followed through the streets of the dependencies, without the presence of the police or any other problems.

The response to the meeting and the march was another message to the State that the anarchist comrade Giannis is not alone. He has with him the movement of solidarity with the political prisoners that will always give all its strength to break the regime of exclusion that the State and capital have in store for them. The “indefinite” detention regime imposed on the comrade is another example of this brutal repression of the enemy within.

Source: athens.indymedia

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