SOLIDARITY INITIATIVE FOR GREEK POLITICAL PRISONER THODORIS ILIOPOULOS.
CALL-OUT FOR INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION FOR THE IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF THODORIS ILIOPOULOS, ON HUNGER STRIKE SINCE JULY 10.
On December 6th 2008 an Athens policeman, in cold blood, shot dead a 15 year old child, Alexis Grigoropoulos. Almost immediately, spontaneous protests and riots spread across Greece.
Thodoros Iliopoulos is an anarchist and the last prisoner of December’s revolt still in pre-trial detention. He has been in prison since December 18th and is one of two prisoners of the revolt to be denied bail – still. On July 9 the court of appeals made explicit, in rejecting Iliopoulos’ application, that it did so on the grounds that Iliopoulos is an anarchist and therefore a “danger for democracy”. The following day, Thodoris went on hunger strike.
Monday, August 24th will be his 45th day on hunger strike. He has lost more than 20% of his original body weight. His requests to be transfered from prison to a hospital have been ignored. His life is in danger.
He is not a flight risk. He is not a terrorist. There is evidence of judicial misconduct in his arraignment process. His father has Alzheimer's disease, and he has an 83 year old mother whom he cares for. In his interviews, he speaks about getting married and raising a family when he is released.
In the struggle for his defense and his release, our support is Thodoris’ breath.
Let’s get his voice heard across the world!
CALL-OUT FOR INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION FOR THE IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF THODORIS ILIOPOULOS, ON HUNGER STRIKE SINCE JULY 10.
On December 6th 2008 an Athens policeman, in cold blood, shot dead a 15 year old child, Alexis Grigoropoulos. Almost immediately, spontaneous protests and riots spread across Greece.
Thodoros Iliopoulos is an anarchist and the last prisoner of December’s revolt still in pre-trial detention. He has been in prison since December 18th and is one of two prisoners of the revolt to be denied bail – still. On July 9 the court of appeals made explicit, in rejecting Iliopoulos’ application, that it did so on the grounds that Iliopoulos is an anarchist and therefore a “danger for democracy”. The following day, Thodoris went on hunger strike.
Monday, August 24th will be his 45th day on hunger strike. He has lost more than 20% of his original body weight. His requests to be transfered from prison to a hospital have been ignored. His life is in danger.
He is not a flight risk. He is not a terrorist. There is evidence of judicial misconduct in his arraignment process. His father has Alzheimer's disease, and he has an 83 year old mother whom he cares for. In his interviews, he speaks about getting married and raising a family when he is released.
In the struggle for his defense and his release, our support is Thodoris’ breath.
Let’s get his voice heard across the world!
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DEMANDING THE IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF HUNGER STRIKE THODORIS ILIOPOULOS
21.08.2009 14:48
The democracy that murders 15-year olds in Exarcheia (The anarchist district in Athens downtown),
The democracy that murders immigrants in Petrou Rally and inside the police’s torture chambers.
The democracy that murders workers at the bosses’ building sites,
The democracy that protects those who steal the people’s wealth while terrorising and censoring any voice of resistance,
This is the democracy that was injured by Thodoris Iliopoulos
This is the democracy that was denounced by the December Insurrection
And this is the democracy that takes revenge after targeting the squats, trying to censor free speech and counter-information political sites, and launches racist pogroms against immigrants, and the decision of the bourgeoisie legal system to keep Thodoris detained 6 more months within its cells.
In this anti-insurrectionist climate that has been formed by the state, resistance and solidarity are the elements that unite us and keep us alive.
For the aggravation of social and class war, for the society of the future, for liberty, towards the road that December showed to us.
NO HOSTAGE IN THE HANDS OF THE STATE
IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF HUNGER STRIKE THODORIS ILIOPOULOS
Anarchists - Antiarchists* - Solidaritives** from the South Suburbs of Athens
(Αναρχικοί - Αντιεξουσιαστές - Αλληλέγγυοι απο τα Νότια Προάστια της Αθήνας)
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London?
21.08.2009 15:41
Public event of solidarity?
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