Anarchist prisoner Antonis Stamboulos goes on hunger and thirst strike (Greece)

via contra info:

Following his arrest in Athens on the 1st of October 2014, Antonis Stamboulos is currently being held on remand facing terrorism charges.

On October 6th, with another open letter, the comrade announced a hunger and thirst strike denouncing the fact that he is now being held in the prisoner transfer centre of Athens. Furthermore, he protests the ongoing media construct fueled by anti-terrorism cops against him.

The terror-frenzy scenarios leaked to the Press have no end, to make it easier for the anti-terrorism unit to exterminate him. The captive comrade has been portrayed, among other things, as a leading member of the Revolutionary Struggle urban guerrilla group, as co-perpetrator of a bank robbery in Kleitoria (Achaea, Greece) and as alleged successor of slain comrade Lambros Foundas, while the mouthpieces of Power have spread that the wanted anarchist Pola Roupa along with her child was supposedly seen on the steps to his apartment in Kallifrona street in Kypseli (which was deemed a “safehouse”). Meanwhile, wannabe informants and other ridiculous snitches have been all too willing to testify against him (e.g. a neighbour to his parents’ house claimed he had heard explosions from the basement of their home).

The fact that the cops took him to the prisoner transfer centre – despite the prosecutor’s request for his transfer to Korydallos prison – reveals that they are attempting to send him to another, remote prison in order to exterminate not so much him as his relatives, who will be forced to travel for hours to visit him in prison, but also in order to make the work of his defense lawyer tougher than it already is.

Antonis Stamboulos
stated that he will not let the scumbags of the anti-terrorist police and their political bosses crush his close ones. That’s why, even before they announce where they’re planning to send him, he warned that he does not accept to be taken anywhere else other than Korydallos, close to his family and lawyer.

Two days after his arrest, when the terror cops finally identified him, Antonis released a statement.

Antonis started his hunger and thirst strike on October 6th.

Solidarity and strength to all who remain uncowed!