Solidarity with the struggle of prisoners in Agyia prison in Chania
Since the beginning of November, prisoners of Ayia prison in Chania, Crete, have engaged in various kinds of mobilizations claiming the obvious. From the hunger strike they conducted denouncing revenge behaviors from prison officials and the administration to Christmas Eve where 60 prisoners escalated their mobilizations refusing to return to their cells and abstaining from the food. Claiming the obvious once again. Water available throughout the day, heating and adequate medical care. Demands slandered by the vulgar Union of External Guard Employees of Chania Detention Facilities, which was not ashamed to undermine the collective struggle of the prisoners. The inhumane conditions aggravated by the degrading behavior of the Agyia Prison administration have been known since 2022, when five prisoners died / were murdered in a period of six months.
In conditions of complete unfreedom, zero self-determination, social isolation and vindictive punitiveness, living conditions determine coexistence within the walls. In a suffocating environment, the fact that access to basic daily needs is not guaranteed intensifies insecurity and the feeling of helplessness. As prisoners, you are called upon to treat incarceration as a violent uprooting from everyday habits, a violent detachment from your people. In this context, access to a decent living unexpectedly affects your daily life. Even the smallest improvements within confinement seem like a luxury.
Prisons are another field of struggle. A field where the collectivization of prisoners was and continues to be able to claim and win battles large and small. Fight for the improvement of living conditions, against the devaluation of prisoners’ lives, against degrading penitentiary/penal codes and the impunity of administrations. For our part, we stand in solidarity with the struggle of the prisoners in the prison of Agia, Chania, to claim decent living conditions. Until the demolition of the last prison.
NO ONE ALONE IN THE HANDS OF THE STATE
IMMEDIATE SATISFACTION OF THE DEMANDS OF PRISONERS IN AGYIA PRISON
HANDS OFF COMRADE POLA ROUPA
IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF COMRADE NIKOS MAZIOTIS
Marianna M.
Dimitra Z.
Korydallos Women’s Prison