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-On 26 of March I’m transferred from Nigrita’s prison to the courts
of Thessaloniki, due to the trial against me for the expropriation of
ODDY’s* auction.
After the trial being postponed once again, i am transferred back to
Nigrita’s prison the same day. There i am subjected into search
investigation during which I deny, once again, to consent in putting off
my underwear (a procedure well-known to the prisons as “bend &
cough”). They transfer me into the “newcomers’ cells” and present me
subsequently before the prosecutor, who officially imposes me the
penalty of disciplinary jail transfer, accusing me for ‘disobedience’ as
well as the indefinite isolation in this particular cell, unofficially,
until I consent in the realization of this particular search
investigation or (until) the disciplinary transfer is made.
-I remain, ever since, under this special detention regime, awaiting my jail transfer.
-It’s clear, judging by the analogy itself between the initial denial
and the subsequent penalty, that the whole issue has a minimum relation
with the specific investigation and the possible consequences that it’s
denial can have in the jail’s function. The declarations from the
prison’s administration side, speaking about their fear that this
particular practice could become a common one, as well as the threats
-during the prisoners’ mobilizations 4 months ago- which were actually
pre-announcing the imposition of a disciplinary jail transfer against
me, on the 26th of March, have much more to say about the essence of
this two-months isolation, than all the rhetorics upon prison security
measures, spoken on behalf of the prison’s directors.
-The prison’s environment consists primarily a totalitarian mechanism
of authoritarian reproduction. Being the hardened reflection of the
wider social situation, jail holds the role of a laboratory, where the
procedure of the individual’s obedience towards the authority, happens
in the most absolute way.
Within the prison’s environment, nothing occurs by chance.
From the spatial planning to the procedures of the ‘benefits’ and the
disciplinary penalties, every aspect of the correctional system’s
function is built in a way that the prisoners should internalize the
ideas of permanent surveillance, slavishness, snitching and no-term
obedience to the orders.
Within this condition, where they try to take every part of your
existence away from your control, that the bars intend to find their way
inside you until your dreams to stay imprisoned behind them, what
inviolably remains under your control, is the choice of negation.
Negations that stay always partial, ‘few’, among the countless contracts
you make daily. It would be hard for anyone to claim that he remained
totally disobedient inside the walls.
-Speaking particularly upon the search investigation procedure, there
would certainly be lots to write. Through stripping, bending and
coughing, the prisoner’s position within the prison’s hierarchy is tried
to be made clear under the most evident way, while at the same time
this procedure is marked as a central and crucial act of his
transformation, from a dignified person into a manipulated object.
-The actual denial of this procedure is a minimum denial of this
particular imposed position. This denial, however, unquestionably does
not consist the epitome of all negations. Neither some thin line
separating dignity from non-dignity. But what it does consist, is the
drawing of a border, which stands as a reminder to myself as well as to
every uniformed person, that I am still alive, that I do not obey, that
the prison has not entered inside me.
-These two months of isolation, are the cost of this very
disobedience. Having -since the beginning- rejected the possibility to
succumb to the blackmail of agreeing for the investigation in order for
this situation to finish, I decided to demand its end in a dynamic way,
using the only means available. Therefore, I started a trolley-food
denial on the 5th of May, demanding the immediate end of this condition
and an immediate jail transfer. One week later, realizing that this
symbolic move was inefficient, i decided to use the ultimate means that
someone has under this circumstances and start a hunger strike on May’s
15th, demanding the satisfaction of the above.
I would like to send my warm comrade greetings to all those that
broke the walls of isolation through their words and actions, both
inside and outside the prisons…
Rami Syrianos
May the 15th
Nigrita’s prison
*ODDY is (was) a public organization that among other activities used to
place in auction and sell various confiscated -by the police- items,
mainly personal vehicles and cars. Nothing more than official dealers of
stolen goods.
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