Thodoros Iliopoulos (arrested in December) on hunger strike

[Black Sheep]

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 and as of yesterday is the only prisoner 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”.

What follows is a translation of Thodoros’ letter from prison, dated July 9.
Today, 9th of July 2009
On the 8th of July, after six-and-a-half months in prison, where I ended up following the incidents of December accused for things I never did, the Court of Misdemeanours ordered the extension of my pre-trial detention.
It is the only court decision ordering the extension of a detention for the events of December, at atime when every single other person in pre-trial detention for December’s revolt (with the same or other charges) has already been released.
The decision reveals personal prejudice and hatred against me; feelings that cannot be justified or explained and is a decision that is biased, unfair and illegal by default, same as any detention.
Faced with the hatred against me, against the unfair “sentence” I am serving in either case, against the stuborn denial of judges and atttorney generals to see the real facts and the truth in my case, against the obvious and unprecedented bias against me, I have no other weapon to fight with but my own body.
I am going on hunger strike. It is the only means I have left as a prisoner to shout out the truth and denounce the injustice and prejudice of the mechanisms of “justice”. To denounce the arbitrariness and the violence of a blind “justice” and its even blinder servants.
From Friday, July 10th, I will stop receiving any food and I will submit a hunger strike notification to the prison’s administration.
Those who lived the events of December, those who experienced the violence of these mechanisms, those who experienced the harshness of the pricon cell - with or without a prison sentence- those who know that the only path to freedom is resistance, those who react to the juridical arbitrariness and its horrors, are those who understand me and who will stand by my side.

I thank them in advance.

Thodoris Iliopoulos
Korydalos Prison, Athens

http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1055728

[PRC-UTE]

That's terrible to hear. I'll make sure I write to him. I write to a few other prisoners around the world anyway

[Black Sheep]

How can you write to a person in jail? Just name of ther prison and name of the detained ? :confused:

[bricolage]

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/08/436029.html


Press release on hunger striker Thodoris Iliopoulos

Solidarity movement for Thodoris Iliopoulos (πρωτοβουλία αλληλεγγύης στο Θοδωρη Ηλιόπουλο)

Translators note: Thodoris Iliopoulos is a prisoner of the Greek state simply for his beliefs. He has been in hunger strike for more than a month and even though his life is in immediate danger they still dont allow him to be taken care of in a hospital!

PRESS RELEASE

Monday, 10 August 2009

Thodoris Iliopoulos (Θοδωρής Ηλιόπουλος) is in his 32nd day of continuing hunger strike. His health situation is getting more serious day after day and it begins to become clear that his life is in danger.

It is a pressing need to allow Thodoris Iliopoulos to be taken care of in a hospital. Thodoris Iliopoulos is currently monitored only by typical clinical examinations (sugar, pressure and weight measurements) while we are still in waiting to learn about his health from the still-unavailable results of his 3 August medical examinations!

His doctor, Specialist Pathologist Eleni Kakalou (Ελένη Κάκαλου) requests his transfer to a hospital. She says, after she examined Thodoris Iliopoulos today in Korydalos Prison:

“It is a very serious matter because he is not in a setting that his health can be monitored effectively, and at this moment his life is at risk. He has no strength, walking with difficulty to reach the doctor’s office or to use the telephone, and he is in pain and seized with cramps. In a few days his life will be in real danger, as with 18% weight loss there have been deaths in similar cases. Thodoris is very close to reaching this weight loss!”

The prison administration, not paying attention to the seriousness of the case, refuses to trasnfer him into a hospital, even though it’s only the prison administration that has the responsibility for maintaining Thodoris Iliopoulos' health, as his counsel N. Mavidis (Ν. Μαβίδης) says.

SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT FOR THODORIS ILIOPOULOS

(ΠΡΩΤΟΒΟΥΛΙΑ ΑΛΛΗΛΕΓΓΥΗΣ ΣΤΟ ΘΟΔΩΡΗ ΗΛΙΟΠΟΥΛΟ)


http://www.indymedia.org.uk/img/extlink.gif http://www.apofylakisithodoriiliopoulou.blogspot.com/

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/img/maillink.gif [email protected]

(here ends the press release)

Translator’s note: Translated from Greek to English; there may be some mistakes. Feel free to fix or improve the translation, as well as post it elsewhere. Note that there’s an online petition regarding Thodoris Iliopoulos at http://www.indymedia.org.uk/img/extlink.gif http://petitiononline.com/tokeli41/

in Greek:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/img/extlink.gif http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1067350

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ATTACHMENT by the translator, not in the original press release:


Public denunciation by Thodoris Iliopoulos, 32 days in hunger strike

Solidarity movement for Thodoris Iliopoulos

PUBLIC DENUNCIATION BY THODORIS ILIOPOULOS

I denounce the directly involved persons who watch me in the prison's medical office and are related with science, who as they themselves say, they accept no responsibility for my health since I chose to become a hunger striker. The behaviour of some persons makes it evident that there is a psychological war. I wonder, would they do the same with Skopelis (Σκορπέλης), Georgiou (Γεωργίου) and Mavridis (Μαυρίδη)?

The struggle against the disgusting regime continues. The passion for freedom is stronger than all the prison’s cells.

Thodoris Iliopoulos (Θοδωρής Ηλιόπουλος), 10 August ‘09

Solidarity movement for Thodoris Iliopoulos

(πρωτοβουλία αλληλεγγύης στο Θοδωρη Ηλιόπουλο)


http://www.indymedia.org.uk/img/extlink.gif http://www.apofylakisithodoriiliopoulou.blogspot.com/


http://www.indymedia.org.uk/img/maillink.gif [email protected]

in Greek:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/img/extlink.gif http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1067349

Translator’s note: Translated from Greek to English; there may be some mistakes. Feel free to fix or improve the translation, as well as post it elsewhere. Note that there’s an online petition regarding Thodoris Iliopoulos at http://www.indymedia.org.uk/img/extlink.gif http://petitiononline.com/tokeli41/


Translator’s note: Where the English translation says ‘disgusting’ the original Greek word is ‘σιχαμένο’ (sixameno) which probably could also be translated as ‘hated’.