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Switzerland: Marco Camenish on hunger strike and work stoppage

Anarchist Black Cross Nijmegen — Sat, 11 Jan 2014 16:58:09 +0000

Marco Camenisch is on hunger strike since the 30th of December 2013, contributing to worldwide resistance, the fight for total liberation, and common revolutionary solidarity beyond the various tendencies, calling out everyone to fight against all forms of domination, exploitation and repression, but also against the class war conducted from above on the occasion of the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF, in Davos, from 21 to 24 January 2014).

His hunger strike began the day when he was put into solitary confinement in the Lenzburg forced labour camp of the Swiss Nazi justice system, because he refused to give urine sample. The prison administration cancelled his visitations during the disciplinary detention. Furthermore, they took away for six months the pc he was using, which is a costly loss for the comrade and his contact outside of prison walls.

On January 6th, 2014 Marco informed that he came out of the disciplinary cell, announcing that he prolongs his hunger strike, also conducting work strike (all inmates in Swiss prisons are subjected to forced labour), at least until the 26th of January.

You may send solidarity letters to the following address:
Marco Camenisch
PF 75, 5600 Lenzburg (Switzerland)

sources: switzerland.indymedia i, ii, radioazione i, ii

Christmas Card writing to prisoners

Anarchist Black Cross Nijmegen — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 12:56:36 +0000

This Saturday the 21st, Anarchist Black Cross Nijmegen

is hosting a writing afternoon from 12 till 18 in daycafe De Klinker..we will focus on Spyros Stratoulis that day but there will be lists ready for yall with as much addresses of prisoners we can prodvide.

So pass by and write someone a nice card while discussing how to overthrow this system with your friends…that would be a great christmas gift right?

In solidarity with the wave hunger strikes in Greek prisons, we are going to write to the person who is the inspiration and reason for this.

Spyros Stratoulis was incarcerated at the age of 17 and has spent the past 22 years in prison. From there he has faught the prison system with numerous hunger strikes, solidarity documents, abstentions from food, prison riots etc.

Additionaly to his sentence he was held on remand from 2008 until 2010, for being involved in prison rebellion which was triggered when another anarchist prisoner was beaten up by jailers.

Although no remand or restrictive order was issued against him in relation with another case that Thessaloniki police has built on alleged criminal organization not only that Spyros was deprived of regular exit permits that he fought so hard to get, but he is also bound to remain hostage pending charges, with a high probability of having to serve the maximum prison sentence length, which is 25 years in Greece, awaiting trial in this particular case, while he would have otherwise been able to request his release on probation in September this year.

On Monday, November 11th, 2013 Spyros went on hunger strike, demanding the charges to be dropped and claiming his innocence in order to be granted days of leave again.

As an indicator of solidarity with the struggle of Spyros, many of his fellow prisoners launched a hunger strike, and more than 100 greek prisoners are rejecting prison food

Masha Goes on Hunger Strike Until She is Allowed to Appear at Her Own Parole Hearing

Anarchist Black Cross Nijmegen — Fri, 24 May 2013 14:38:48 +0000

Bron: Freepussyriot.org

Miriam Elder of the Guardian writes that Masha has begun a hunger strike to protest at a court decision to refuse her permission to attend her own parole hearing.

Update 1 june: Masha has ended her 11-day hunger strike after prison authorities met her demands.

Maria Alyokhina, 24, also forbade her lawyers from further representing her during the parole hearing, becoming the most high-profile prisoner to reject taking part in a justice system widely criticised as absurd.

A regional court in Berezniki, a small city in the Urals region of Perm where Alyokhina’s prison colony is situated, had denied the activist the right to appear at her parole hearing on Wednesday. She appeared via videolink, and was required to file all motions by fax, requiring regular breaks in the hearing. At the end of the day-long hearing, she announced she would start a hunger strike. The parole hearing was due to continue on Thursday. “Let the troika sitting here – the judge, the prosecutor and the colony employee – decide my fate,”

Alyokhina said at the close of Wednesday’s proceedings, referring to the Soviet-era three-person commissions that issued sentences to perceived enemies without a trial.

Alyokhina and two of her bandmates, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Yekaterina Samutsevich, were sentenced to two years in prison last year after being found guilty of “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred” for performing a punk anthem criticising Vladimir Putin inside a Moscow cathedral.

Samutsevich’s sentence was later suspended. Tolokonnikova was denied parole last month. She and Alyokhina are due to be released in March next year. In a recent letter to Radio Svoboda, Alyokhina wrote: “Soon I’ll appear before the parole commission which, of course, will decide that it’s impossible to let such a dangerous person as myself out into society. This is all boring and predictable.” The case against Pussy Riot signalled the start of a widespread crackdown on the anti-Putin opposition, and boosted the profile of the powerful Russian Orthodox church.

On Tuesday, the Duma approved a bill that would impose jail terms for “offending religious feelings”. It must now pass a formal third reading and be signed into law by Putin. Critics fear it will add to the arsenal of new laws being used to crack down on dissent.