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The Pylos 9: framed for a state crime

The trial of the Pylos 9 will happen on 21 May in Kalamata. The 9 have been accused of causing the Adriana shipwreck in June 2023, which killed over 600 people. This shipwreck was a massacre carried out by the Hellenic Coast Guard. Yet the Greek state has put these 9 people on trial in an act of misdirection, hiding its own involvement.
When the state kills it covers its tracks with post-mortems that attribute cause of death elsewhere: some latent toxin, some foreign body, some other malignancy. The 9 have been identified as the cause of death to make sure we look no further. No state willingly and in good faith investigates its own murderous acts. Knowing this, we undertook a post-mortem ourselves:

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Amalia Kazabaka: racism and the prosecution of the Moria 6

On 8 March 2024 a young man from Afghanistan, one of the Moria 6, was sentenced on appeal to 8 years in prison after being convicted of burning down Moria camp in 2020. Members of the Open Assembly Against Border Violence Lesvos were present in the courtroom of Mytilene for four days. The public prosecutor, spent these days engaged in the shameless racist persecution of the defendant. Our text “Amalia Kazabaka: racism and the prosecution of the Moria 6” looks at the prosecutor’s words.

Solidarity With The Detainees On Hunger Strike In Korinthos Detention Centre

Since 22 March, 46 people held in Korinthos detention centre have been on hunger strike protesting their arbitrary imprisonment, the violation of their rights and the inhuman conditions of detention.

A month ago, on 26 February, 13 other people went on hunger strike in the same detention centre. These 13 people were arrested after a shipwreck in December and have been detained ever since with no further explanation, denying them the right to ask for asylum. This group, having first been shipwrecked, were immediately placed in pre-removal detention, despite the Greek Ombudsperson requesting their immediate release. While on strike, the police raided their cells, threatening and manipulating them into ending it. A few days later, 8 people were transferred from Korinthos to Amygdaleza detention center, without being given a reason.

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