After the first rejection of his request for conditional release in February, comes the second negative prosecutorial proposal, now in May, with the judges in charge unable to time his release, or rather stating that the comrade will have to remain in prison for an indefinite period of time until it is decided, based on their appetites, that he is no longer a danger. This additional detention is being used at will by the judicial mafia to punish choices and attitudes of struggle. The Amfissa Judicial Council, however, refuses to release him on the pretext that he does not meet the substantive conditions of release. The anarchist comrade Giannis Michailidis has served from 29 December 2021, after 8.5 years of detention, the formal conditions of release for all his sentences. He was arrested again in Athens with 2 other female comrades in 2020 and was accused of a bank expropriation act, which he undertook. This prosecution was brought against all political prisoners in order to restrict their rights and prolong their time in prison. He will be forced to escape in 2019 from the rural prison due to a fabricated prosecution for participation in the uprising against the violent abduction of the then hunger striker Dinos Yatzoglou from Korydallos prison. His militant stance will continue inside the walls, where he will participate in prison as a solidarist in the hunger strike of an anarchist in 2014 and in the mass hunger strike of political prisoners in 2015. In the courts that follow, he will be acquitted of his participation in the CCF and convicted of the Velventos bank robbery, the Pefki case and the case of individual terrorism. He is, also, accused of being an “individual terrorist” along with his comrades from the Velventos case and is sentenced to prison for possession of ammunition and forgery. After his arrest, he is accused of being the accomplice of anarchist Theofilos Mavropoulos in the armed clash with cops in Pefki (an area in the northern suburbs of Athens) and is sentenced to prison. He chose the path of illegality and was arrested in 2013 in Velvento Kozani, after expropriating a bank together with 3 other anarchists, where he was tortured by the police. The reason was his solidarity relations with wanted anarchists. The heavy prosecution against Giannis began in 2011 when an arrest warrant was issued against him for involvement in the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire (CCF). He was present in the battles against the memoranda in 2012 and chose to expropriate the bloody wealth of the banks, remaining steadfastly committed to the vision of the overthrow of the state and capital, holding a militant – feisty stance, against the police-judicial complex, the material expression of state terrorism. He was an integral part of the December uprising, when police officers murdered in cold blood the anarchist 16-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos in the Exarchia area. He fought against the plundering of nature and was arrested in an intervention against the deforestation of Mount Parnitha in 2007. He participated in the 2006-2007 student struggles against the reactionary reforms in higher education (privatization of universities, abolition of university asylum, etc.). He participated from a young age in anarchist student groups, in demonstrations against the Iraq war, in anti-state/anti-capitalist demonstrations of the 2004-2006 anti-globalisation movement and was arrested during the conflicts. Throughout his life, Giannis Michailidis, has been an integral part of the struggles against the state and capital from an anarchist perspective. This choice, with the deep motivation of the much desired freedom, I intend to support it with the same consistency that I have supported my choices so far and for which they are avenging me.” Giannis Michailidis, preventively imprisoned in Malandrinos prison, After 5 more months of preventive detention, I am starting a hunger strike for my release. “After 8.5 years in prison, after all these arbitrary actions against me, I decided to put an end to my 11 years of suffering, by putting up a mound against the practice of preventive imprisonment, or else the additional punishment of escape with legal loopholes. International Call for Action in Solidarity with Giannis Michailidis // 24 June 2022
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