Repression – Page 39

Athens, Greece: DNA samples & arrests in the mess of war we live everyday here

Posted on 2021/11/04 by darknights

It is a fact that worldwide the system of monitoring and control using biometric data is growing with the creation of data banks for everyone with the cooperation of State, European and international organisations.

At the same time as the majority of society is subjected to the violence of the State and capital, the increasing impoverishment and the rising cost of living, the beating of strikers and students by the repressive forces, the murders by the cops, the killings in the sweatshops of wage slavery , the repatriations and murder of immigrants.

At the same time they are also expanding their legal arsenal and sharpening their attack on anyone and everyone who raises their head and anyone and everyone who attempts to resist modern totalitarianism. The Greek State is seeking to use trumped-up charges to break the morale of those who are struggling. We, the fighters, the comrades, the comrades declare our presence, we do not retreat, we stand on the side of every exploited and oppressed person, on the side of the persecuted and imprisoned comrades. Anyway, in the beginning DNA identification comes for the fighters, then it will be established for all.

-OPPOSITION TO COMPULSORY DNA COLLECTION OF THE 14 STUDENTS
-IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF COMRADE HARIS.M.
-NO PROSECUTION FOR COMRADE KOSTAS. Κ.

Source: Act For Freedom Now!

Chile: Against the obstacles of the prison guards – Solidarity, agitation and action for the life and health of comrade Francisco Solar!

Posted on 2021/11/04 - 2021/11/04 by darknights

On September 22, 2021, the anarchist comrade Francisco Solar was hospitalized inside the La Gonzalina prison in Rancagua after being diagnosed with diabetes and found to be on the verge of a coma. Today the comrade is returned to module 2 of maximum security and since then medical staff/prison guards, through negligent and insufficient treatment have tried to stabilize him.

Immediately, both Francisco and part of the solidarity environment from the outside, we began to make arrangements for the entry of a private doctor, to perform a series of tests, modification of the diet and move towards a treatment as autonomous as possible by Francisco, without depending on the mood swings of the jailers who must provide him with insulin.

As expected, the prison guards have given no response or facilities for the entry of a private doctor or the delivery of the medical record of the comrade.

The call is to generate pressure for the entry of a private doctor and the lifting of any obstacle for proper treatment. Therefore we call on all those who feel the urgency of the comrade’s life and health to mobilize and agitate to unblock this situation of prohibitions and obstacles to the comrade’s care.

Letters, militancy, agitation, visits to embassies and all initiatives that each comrade, group or collective deems pertinent within the mutuality. Everything is useful to succeed in bending the infinite prohibitions in the prison world.

Solidarity, agitation and action for the life and health of comrade Francisco Solar!

Subversive prisoners and anarchists to the street!

Source: Publicacion Refractario

Chile: On the events that took place in Rancagua’s company prison last Thursday to subversive and anarchist prisoners

Posted on 2021/11/04 - 2021/11/04 by darknights

On Thursday, October 21, at noon, in the high security module 1 of the company prison in Rancagua, there was a violent attack by the jailers -more than 50- with the aim of raiding all the prisoners -less than 20- who were in the yard at that time, It is in this context that, faced with the arrogance of the prison guards, the comrades who are currently in that module and a no lesser number of social prisoners, face up to the orders coming from the executioners and refuse them in order to safeguard their unshakable dignity. Perhaps it is necessary to explain here that the general way in which the prison guard operates is to seek to break the will of the individual, ordering prisoners to perform degrading actions such as putting their hands behind their backs, facing the wall or doing squats, all forms of submission constantly rejected by the subversive and anarchist comrades in prison, since they understand that performing this type of actions, in addition to the submission and indignity of the moment, is transformed into a vortex of submission in which the only logical culmination is the complete degradation of the individual; there is no manual that accounts for this analysis, it is the own conscience and the ability to learn from the mistakes of each of our comrades that has led them to choose this path. It is also logical that this type of response on the part of our comrades leaves a bitter taste in the jailers that often culminates in violence… This was one of those cases, after the comrades refused to carry out these actions, the jailers took a step forward and verbally and physically confronted them, which resulted in comrades Juan Flores and Joaquín García being punished for 24 hours in isolation cells, under the arbitrary accusation of “active resistance” and affecting their conduct (an important point to apply for rights such as parole or Sunday release), not without first being beaten and pepper sprayed, in addition to receiving Nazi and patriotic bravado in support of the ultra-right-wing Kast as the only president who would allow the killing of subversives in prison.

It is not part of their policy to play the role of victims, in this confrontation our comrades have not been beaten, they have resisted the humiliating orders of the prison guards, but that does not make them either victims or victimizers, they carry out their daily life in prison with pride, they know they are anarchists and subversives, they do not need the approval of anyone, because they live and practice it in their daily lives. The fact that they are the ones who have received the blows does not mean that this will always be their destiny, they have demonstrated it and will continue to do so; it is the dynamics of the conflict itself. Continue reading “Chile: On the events that took place in Rancagua’s company prison last Thursday to subversive and anarchist prisoners” →

Comrade Pablo Bahamondes Ortiz “El Oso” was sentenced to 15 years in prison

Posted on 2021/11/04 by darknights

Today, Wednesday, October 20, the oral criminal court of Melipilla sentenced our comrade Pablo Bahamondes Ortiz, “Oso”, to 15 years and 1 day for transporting arms.

To those who assume the conflict against the state and power, let there be no doubt that subversion does not die or stagnate.

To propagate the creative destruction and strengthen the bond of insurgent complicity with Pablo and with all our imprisoned comrades who do not flinch or repent, assuming the conflict with conviction and dignity, a behavior typical of warriors that not even prison can defeat.

THERE IS NO JAIL OR PUNISHMENT CAPABLE OF DEFEATING THE SUBVERSIVE CONVICTION OF STRUGGLE AGAINST POWER AND ALL AUTHORITIES!

Source: Publicacion Refractario

Bristol, UK: Anarchist Prisoner Toby Shone Sentenced

Posted on 2021/10/29 by darknights

Anarchist prisoner Toby Shone was sentenced to 3 years 9 months in prison for 8 drug offences at Bristol Crown Court on October 13, 2021 after Terrorism charges were dropped. He has already served 8 months of this sentence on remand.

The ‘drugs’ were psychedelics and medicinal plants (LSD, DMT, cannabis, THC oil, MDMA and magic mushrooms) found at two of the four properties raided by counter-terror cops in the UK South-West on November 18, 2020 in their hunt for the administrator of anarchist website 325.nostate.net.

Toby was originally charged with providing a service enabling others to access terrorist publications contrary to section 2 of the Terrorism Act 2006, fundraising for terrorist purposes contrary to section 15 of the Terrorism Act 2000, and two counts of possession of information likely to be useful to a terrorist contrary to section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000. He had pleaded not guilty to these charges earlier this year and was due to stand trial at Bristol Crown Court on October 6, 2021. However, with no evidence to put before the court, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) was forced to drop these charges on October 1st. This was a landmark attempt by the British State and the deranged Home Secretary Priti Patel to prosecute an anarchist under modern terrorism legislation.

The investigation into 325 continues and cops continue to harass and attempt to intimidate one of Toby’s comrades at her home.

Toby is in good spirits and remains strong. He hopes to delay being transferred to another prison until he has had his annual MRI scan for cancer which is scheduled for this month with his medical team in Bristol, so please continue to send letters of support and birthday cards (it is his birthday on October 20th) to:

Toby Shone A7645EP
HMP Bristol
19 Cambridge Road
Bishopston
Bristol
BS7 8PS
UK

Or email him via emailaprisoner.com

Solidarity with Toby!
Some Anarchists

Source: Bristol ABC

Italy: The truth can be upsetting but it is still the truth

Posted on 2021/10/22 by darknights

via:terreinmoto. Translated by act for freedom now!

THE TRUTH CAN BE UPSETTING BUT IT IS STILL THE TRUTH

In the night between 1^st and 2^nd September we were stopped in Via Cavour and accused of having put up posters without permission. A simple administrative sanction was not enough for the police, they wanted to pile it on by charging us with “publication or spreading of fake, exaggerated or tendentious news aimed at upsetting public order” (Art. 656 of the penal code). To be accused of spreading fake news precisely by those who defend a system which always lies, manipulating and terrorizing the population with the aim of legitimatizing the most abject political and repressive practices is paradoxical to say the least.

But what did those posters say that was fake?

Is it not true perhaps that society is aiming for the complete digitalization of every aspect of our lives, even the most intimate? Continue reading “Italy: The truth can be upsetting but it is still the truth” →

Italy: Updates on the Sardinian anarchist, deported prisoner Davide Delogu

Posted on 2021/10/17 - 2021/10/17 by darknights

WE LEARN FROM CORRESPONDENCE THAT DAVIDE ‘WAS RENEWED FOR THE UMPTEENTH TIME THE CENSORSHIP.

In particular he informs us as follows:

“For the first time after seven years and more of almost uninterrupted censorship, the magistrate wanted to use the article 41Bis Section 2 Lett. F. and also ordered that the seized letters, as well as to him, should also go to the prosecutor’s office, possibly, I think, criminally persecute those to whom the letters are seized, censorship or not I will always write what I think”.

Davide Free! Davide in Sardinian land!

Via: Inferno Urbano

Italy: Sentence of the trial for the Prometeo repressive operation: Beppe, Natascia and Robert were acquitted

Posted on 2021/10/09 by darknights

Waiting for further contributions, we publish the news of the acquittal of Beppe, Robert and Natascia in first instance in the trial for the Prometeo repressive operation. According to the newspapers, they were acquitted “for not having committed the fact”, with the formula of insufficient evidence.

Waiting for the sentence, comrades have made a gathering turned into a demonstration.

In the last hearing, the prosecutor Federico Manotti had asked 18 years and 4 months for Beppe and 17 years each for Robert and Natascia.

Beppe, being detained for another case, for now remains in prison, while Natascia, after two years, is free!

[Update published in italian by roundrobin.info].

Natascia, Beppe and Robert were arrested on May 21, 2019, in the context of the “Prometeo” operation, carried out by the ROS (Raggruppamento Operativo Speciale, “Special Operational Grouping”) of carabinieri, on the main charge of “attack with the aim of terrorism or subversion”, as they were held responsible by the repressive forces for sending, in June 2017, three parcel bombs addressed to public prosecutors Rinaudo (prosecutor in several trials against the antagonist movement and anarchists) and Sparagna (prosecutor in the Scripta Manent trial), and to Santi Consolo (then director of the Department of Penitentiary Administration in Rome). The three parcel bombs were defused. Robert was released from prison in December 2019. On June 22, 2020, there was the preliminary hearing of the first instance trial, which ended on October 4, 2021, with the acquittal of the three comrades.

The court ordered the release of Natascia after two and a half years of imprisonment, while Beppe remains imprisoned due to another case (he is accused of having placed an incendiary device against a post office in Genoa in June 2016, for which he has already been sentenced to 5 years in prison). Below is the address of the comrade:

Giuseppe Bruna
C. C. di Bologna “Dozza”
via del Gomito 2
40127 Bologna
Italia – Italy

[Published by malacoda.noblogs.org].

UK: Update on the situation of anarchist comrade Toby Shone

Posted on 2021/10/09 - 2021/10/09 by darknights

Toby’s trial began on 6th October at Bristol Crown Court. The charges for administration of 325.nostate.net, funding of terrorism through the website and dissemination of and collection of material useful to terrorists have now been dropped due to lack of evidence.

The other charges of possession of Class A and B drugs with intent to supply, producing a class B drug and a further count of class AA drug possession are still being pursued. At this present time we understand this could carry a jail term of 3-6 years imprisonment.

The Operation Adream that has been unleashed by the British state is an attempt to destroy 325 & its publications, an attack on counter-information that is connected to the repression that has been ramped up on this island since the pandemic and resulting lockdowns, a repression that has always existed, an attack on any form of active revolt here.

We do not believe in guilt and innocence, neither in passivity, only in solidarity that contributes to the continuation of the conflict against the existent.

Strength & Solidarity to anarchist comrade Toby Shone!

Nothing is over, the conflict continues!

Dark Nights Collective

Santiago, Chile: Transantiago bus set on fire in San Joaquín + Leaflets

Posted on 2021/10/03 by darknights

On Friday, September 10, 2021, about five anonymous individuals boarded the Transantiago bus on Vicuña Mackenna Avenue, in front of the San Joaquín campus of the Catholic University, to get off the driver and passengers.

Quickly the anonymous would have poured petrol and set fire to the public transport vehicle, at the same time that they threw leaflets demanding the freedom of the prisoners of the revolt and remembering one of those killed by the repression during the revolt.

No one was injured or arrested.

Source: Noticias de la Guerra Social