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Solidaridad con los huelgistas de hambre en Grecia
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El pasado 6 de Mayo de 2006 tuvo lugar en Atenas una gran manifestación del Foro Social Europeo. Ese día la policía arrestó de forma arbitraria a varias personas. Tres de ellas permanecen desde entonces en prisión. De ellas, dos están en huelga de hambre: Tarasio Zantorozni, desde el 29 de noviembre; y Gerasimos Kiriakopoulos, desde el 15 de diciembre. |
Ambos detenidos se enfrentan a acusaciones que llegan hasta posesión de explosivos e intento de asesinato. Dichas acusaciones no están basadas en ninguna prueba, sino únicamente en declaraciones contradictorias de policías y testigos falsos.
Ambos huelguistas llevan detenidos ocho meses en la prisión de Koridalos(Atenas), sin que hasta la fecha hayan sido juzgados, o se haya fijado fecha para el juicio. Ahora se encuentran hospitalizados, y el estado de su salud es preocupante. Los doctores que les atienden han expresado con claridad que si su huelga de hambre prosigue sufrirán pronto daños irreversibles y sus vidas correrán peligro.
Lamentablemente, este no es un hecho aislado. En varias manifestaciones de estudiantes universitarios (muy frecuentes ahora en Atenas por los intentos del gobierno griego, de ideología derechista, de abrir la puerta a la privatización de las universidades), la actuación policial se ha caracterizado por su brutalidad, con lanzamiento indiscriminado de gases lacrimógenos y uso arbitrario de la fuerza física contra los manifestantes. Cabe relacionar estos hechos con los esfuerzos del gobierno de demostrar su poder sobre la ciudadanía - en la actual situación de histeria antiterrorista- ante la probable convocatoria de elecciones generales anticipadas en la primavera de 2007.
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Re: Solidaridad con los huelgistas de hambre en Grecia
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24 gen 2007
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cartas de los presos del deciembre pasado:
I am Gerasimos Kiriakopoulos.
I am incarcerated in Koridallos Prison, accused of participating in violent episodes on May 6 during the 4th European Social Forum.
A few facts regarding my case:
On the afternoon of May 6 in Thiseio – where no violent activities occurred – six riot police arrested six people, blindly and without cause. One of these people was myself.
As they arrested me without reason, I believed that it was just on grounds of suspicion – in view of the general climate of that day. But, as you can see in my writing you this letter, things didn’t turn out that way.
Later, taken to police headquarters upon no grounds, upon no evidence, the police gave me a declaration to sign – that contained a mountain of charges. In order for the police to support these charges, they naturally stated in the six identical indictments that the arrests hadn’t taken place in Thiseio but rather in Monastiraki Square where violent episodes had taken place, and presented us as being the group that had carried these out.
Thus, upon no valid grounds I later went through interrogation proceedings where I was charged with serious felonies such as attempted murder and supply and possession of 50 explosives, - and without my being an escaped suspect or having been accused of such activities in the past (and how could I have been?) I was taken into custody. So I am incarcerated in Koridallos Prison upon no valid grounds whatsoever and facing serious charges. Consequently, all my applications for release have been rejected, and I am still held in prison upon false grounds.
I have questioned and I have wondered how I, a simple person, can prove my innocence in contradiction to the invalid police charges, without having any proof to offer other than my word. Indeed I cannot. And recognizing this fact and having no other way, therefore, to confront all these false accusations, and knowing that – beyond my serious health problems (a ruptured kidney and spleen) – my life could become endangered, I am beginning a hunger strike (since 7/12) in protest at the false charges brought against me, and asking for my immediate release until my case stands trial.
Gerasimos Kiriakopoulos
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Having been incarcerated behind bars and cement for the last six and a half months in Koridallos Prison, I ascertain that they have managed to imprison my body only. All else that is true and free I have managed to keep intact.
I am held hostage by the State because I had decided to participate in a protest demonstration. The system was seeking to find scapegoats in order to promote an image of control and administration of justice. The system’s corruption appeared in its full majesty since, from the very beginning, there were inaccuracies and inconsistencies in the police reports which, in succession, were necessarily modified when presented to the magistrate. Of course alterations, in combination with other pretexts that the interrogation set as the issue, served to delay my case so that the decision would be influenced by the six-month committee, and lead to my further imprisonment. How, indeed, could any judgment be valid that employed methods of deception and distortion of facts when there was no valid evidence against me.
Hemmed in by all possible choices, led to a dead-end, having endured the continuing injustice against my deepest being, I continue my struggle with whatever means I have left.
If they imagine that by imprisoning me they have subjugated my passion for freedom then they are laughable. In my attempt to heighten the contradictions of a decadent system and to demonstrate its totalitarian character, I shall cease to give them the right to determine my body - as it is the only thing that they possess of me, I shall convert it into a form of struggle against them for the purpose of my release.
Thus I have been on hunger strike since Wednesday November 29, and I ask for the immediate and unconditional release of myself and my co-defendants, the dropping of all charges and the closing of our cases. I shall not allow them to use freedom as a tool in their legal and political games. My struggle, however, will be a difficult one and will need the support and solidarity of people who are outside these walls and who support my struggle.
Consciences are not subjugated, are not incarcerated, are not directed.
Tarasios Zantorozni
C wing of Koridallos Prison
sacado de: http://alacant.indymedia.org/newswire/display/40627/index.php |
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ygerigo@hotmail.com |
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los ultimos dias la escuela politecnica de Atenas está okupada por compañer@s para expresar su solidaridad a los 3 detenidos (2 en huelga de hambre) y utilizar el sitio okupado como centro de "contra-informativo" |
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Re: Solidaridad con los huelgistas de hambre en Grecia
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per tierr@ |
24 gen 2007
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LETTER FROM NIKAIA GENERAL HOSPITAL
17. Januar 07
We have spent the last period in Nikaia hospital in conditions of isolation, without phone contact, without easy access to newspapers, and under continuous harassment during lawyers' and relatives' visits. We have nevertheless been informed of your continual and ever-intensifying solidarity actions, as well as of their confrontation on the part of the State. Having lost
any "humane" facade, the atrociousness of their true face is increasingly manifest as with particular zeal they repress any effort at publicity of our collective struggle. The police's severe beating of V. Grivas, last Saturday January 13, is characteristic. We are especially glad when we are aware of you - the immediate contact and power of your solidarity give us the courage and strength to continue.
AS MUCH AS THEY TRY TO SUBJUGATE CONSCIENCES, SO MUCH WILL CONSCIENCES REBEL.
THE PASSION FOR FREEDOM IS GREATER THAN ANY CELL.
TARASIOS ZANTOROZNI
GERASIMOS KIRIAKOPOULOS
17.01.07
http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=en&article_id=637004
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