Prisoner Support

from bristolabc, updated 31 January 2010: "Elijah (James) Smith has now been locked up on remand for one year, ever since his arrest last 18 January 2009 after the EDO/MBM ITT factory in Brighton was trashed by 6 campaigners from Bristol. His and the other 5’s trial for that action commences on May 17 in Brighton (along with 3 other people from Brighton allegedly implicated in the action), however he faces being held on remand at least until his trial for the Raytheon 2 (formerly 3) starts in Bristol in early September..." more

from bristolabc, 20 December 2009: "Today 20 December 2009 marks 11 months on remand for EDO Decommissioner Elijah (James) Smith. That’s 11 months locked away in a shitty little cell, deprived of all his freedom, and without any opportunity to argue his case in court. 11 months in prison without actually being found guilty of anything..." more

from various sources, 17 December 2009: "There will be a mass demonstration outside the Danish Embassy in London in solidarity with those unlawfully arrested and detained in Copenhagen during the Climate Summit protests. Today on Thursday the 17 December from 4pm onwards. The address of the embassy is: 5 Sloane Street, London SW1X 9SR. Nearest tube Knightsbridge.

As many people as possible need to turn up to protest at the Danish state's appallling treatment of climate protesters and its denial of free speach. Spread the word far and wide!" more

from various sources, 16 December 2009: The Reclaim Power march to the Bella centre was blocked by Danish riot police using batons, pepper spray, tear gas and dogs. At least 200 peope have been detained, perhaps many more. At least 35 injured have been reported. NGO and developing world delegates from inside the COP15 summit - who had been marginalised by the arrival of the delegations of many heads of government - tried to leave the Bella centre to hold a People's Assembly with Reclaim Power, but were beaten back and gassed... more

from various sources, 4 December 2009: "This article below includes a re-post of a mainstream media article for the purpose of spreading what little info is known about the situation of Mindaugus, a demonstrator at the London G20 summit who tried to burn down a bank in the City of London at the height of clashes with police: he was today jailed for two years..." more

from 325, updated 4 December 2009: "This morning (Wednesday 2 December) the sentence in the trial against Jurgen and Paolo was given: both were accused of a number of fires in the night between 6 and 7 October, resulting in a 12 months suspended sentence for Jurgen and 6 months suspended for Paolo. A few hours later they left Gent prison..." more

from imc, 21 November 2009: "On the 14th of October 2008 the Swedish secret police SAPO raided 3 houses in different places in Sweden. They arrested the anarchist Jonatan and took different tools, political pamphlets, his computer and other personal stuff with them. After two months in custody he had his trial and was sentenced to about 15 Months in Prison, which he begins in October 2009. He is accused of three ELF-Actions... more

via occupied london, 27 October 2009: What follows is the typed-up text from a leaflet that has been going around recently - "It’s an old story, stuff of the last century. Two anarchists are arrested following a bank strike. The first robbed it, arm in hand. They say the second helped him by looking after the money. It happened in a small town in Greece on October 1. So? Such things happen..." more

from 325, 24 October 2009: "Amadeu Casellas has confirmed that last Wednesday the 21st of October he abandoned his hunger strike which had lasted 100 days. He began the action on the 15th of July this year. The same Wednesday after two major complications he was practically in a coma... In these moments he is undergoing tests to determine the general state of his major organs after the hunger strike..." more

from email, 19 October 2009: "You might have noticed that we’ve been quiet on Marie Mason’s situation since she has entered the federal prison system. Mostly she has been trying to adjust to life at Waseca and get her basic needs met. The good news is that she was initially assigned a job in the kitchen, but was able to be transferred to a job as a guitar instructor. Unfortunately, Marie Mason’s other needs are not being met. Mail delivery has continuously been disrupted. Contact with her appeal lawyer was halted at one point, and he had to intervene to re-establish it..." more

from various sources, 13 October 2009: "Amadeu Casellas is a prisoner who has spent more than 25 years in jail due to his participation in dozens of bank robberies, helping with that money to the funding of worker's struggles in the late 1970's. None of his activities involved blood crimes. Amadeu has always been a committed and active person, participating in many actions, in the streets as well as in prisons..." more

from email, updated 7 October 2009: "Many of you have been offering your support and are asking what you can do to help Jeff. As you have likely heard by now, on October 2, 2009, Jeff was released from prison after a supplemental judgment granted Jeff an additional reduction in his total incarceration time. He had served almost 9.5 years of what was originally a 22.5 year prison term (reduced to 10 years on appeal).

After tasting freedom for a few short hours, he reported to his probation officer in Eugene as directed, and was taken back in to custody, apparently as a result of a "mistake" by the Oregon Department of Corrections..." more

from 325, 4 October 2009: "Fresh from the frontlines and hot off the press, the seventh issue of the rebellious and anarchic zine known as ‘325' is out now. For 5 years this publishing project has existed and thanks are due to all those who have contributed a letter, article, report, stone, barricade, molotov and flame of insight. The second issue produced by the Anti-Copyright Network since the start of 2009, clocking in at 88 pages of photocopier friendly black & white, the PDF is listed here for your reading, consideration and replication..." more

from bristolabc, 3 September 2009: "As the legal case around the 6 Bristol EDO Decommissioners grows ever more complicated, there’s timely news of another benefit for their support campaign this Friday, 4 September, from 8.30pm at The Plough.

These benefits help pay for publicity and research in defence of the six, along with some travel costs and of course prisoner support – Elija (James) Smith is still on remand remember, nearly 8 months in jail without a trial..." more

from imc-uk, 27 August 2009: "The Greek government could not ignore anymore the massive movement formed in solidarity with innocent detainee Theodoros Iliopoulos and set him free at last!

Theodoros Iliopoulos is free after 49 days of hunger strike. He was arrested in December and detained with fabricated molotov-throwing charges. His innocence was defended by witnesses, but the only witness reports considered by the “justice” authorities were those of two police officers.

He went on hunger strike on 10 July and for more than a month the authorities refused to provide him with proper medical support at a public hospital and instead kept him in the under-funded and under-equipped prison’s medical room. He was hospitalized into the Sotiria Hospital only a few days ago.

Anarchist comrades in Greece and abroad quickly mobilised in solidarity..." more