Jan 12, 2021 from http://tokata.info/category/huelga-de-hambre-rotativa-2020/
The rotating hunger strike is continuing, now running from January 11-20. The strike is against everything that kills us, more or less slowly, the people who are in prison, beginning with torture and ill treatment.
Juan Manuel Duró Sánchez, a prisoner in the isolation of the Villena prison, has sent a letter in which he relates ill treatment to a couple of his comrades, published in the blog of the Grup de Suport a Presxs, Lleida. We know from other colleagues that in the First Degree of that prison of Villena (Alicante II) reigns the violence of the jailers and that, of course, is not the only place.
Below, we insert part of David Rojas’ story published in the blog of HENAS’ comrades about the harsh conditions in Zuera prison, where violence by the guards against the prisoners, medical abandonment and the systematic cruelty of the punishment regime are also on the agenda, in addition to the deprivation of communications with the excuse that family members can spread the coronavirus to the prisoners, while people enter from the street without any warning and no real preventive measures are taken.
solidarity is our weapon
Isolation in Alicante II prison, December 1, 2020
Hello, X, I hope that when my letter arrives you are all well. Here I send you the news of the fasting on December 1st, okay?
I got your letters and I thank you for everything you tell me and for the information you send me. I am writing to you with my partner XX. If you can, send me the calendar of the Rotary Strike and tell me when it is my turn. Tell me also the address of my Galician partner, who was here with me and was taken away to I don’t know where. It’s to write him a letter and find out about him and how he’s doing.
Today I’m going to file a complaint about a doctor who doesn’t care about anything, and who only knows – together with the jailers – how to report a part of comrade XXX. He asked for a new mattress, because he is fucked up in the spine, and they gave him one full of fleas. Now his whole body is full of bites. And my fellow countryman was beaten up by these fucking executioners, and they left his face like a map, you can’t see how his eyes looked. His name is XXXX, they put him in the first grade and now he’s in A Lama. Everything came because he head-butted a guard, because he had his wife here and they wouldn’t let him see her. There are many jailers here who only come to provoke us.
I don’t care about being in the first grade, and I’ll stand up for my colleagues. But just for the comrades who fight, because half of them are informers or gang members who only think for themselves and don’t care about the rest.
Thank you very much for the letters, for the papers and for everything you do for us.
Until your next letter!
Juan Manuel Duró Sánchez
protest against torture deaths in prison
Zuera Prison, December 15, 2020
(…) My delay in answering you is because a month ago I was transferred from the C.P. Murcia II and now I am in the C.P. Zuera-Zaragoza and the change of prison has not been for the better because here the jailers are all a few fascists that freak you out and there is no more comrades in this prison nor any anti prison collective , at least in Murcia I could communicate every weekend with the collective of Murcia.
But, although here I am alone, I am a lone wolf that I have been moving around in these prisons since 1996. (…) now I have no sanctions and I have to revise my grade for the month of January and they should give me a Second Degree by law, but the technical team of jailers are going to make an excuse for not giving me the second grade because they still don’t know me and I’ve just arrived at this prison, but I’m used to being in the First Degree .. in the four sentences I’ve had in my life I’ve lost count of how many years I’ve been in the First Degree and in all the bunkers in Spanish territory and always for my principles and ideals.
(…) What is happening to me is that these dogs are turning me into an antisocial person, always locked up 20 hours a day and hardly going out to the yard … and without any kind of activity or anything else and by not dealing with almost anyone it is the most normal thing that you end up becoming an antisocial person, but to understand all this, you have to live it and I don’t wish that even on my worst enemy.
Look, here in this fucking prison of Zuera the jailers are despotic racists, and in a short time that I’ve been in this prison I’ve already seen several prisoners tortured. They beat them to death, undressing them in the middle of December and shackling them naked on the mechanized bed with the windows open, and keeping them like this for two days without giving them their meals and their medications, or anything else, and with the cold that we have here in Zuera.
The first problem is my health and that of my fellow inmates. Most of the inmates here do not wear masks and (jailers) come in and out of here every day and do not respect anything (…) because I do not know what they do when they finish their shift and I do not know where they go or what people they are with.
And the other thing is that we are cut off from our families , with the excuse that our relatives can infect us with covid-19, but I tell the guards that they go home every day and the next day they come in from the street and on top of that they allow them to come to the prison without even wearing their mask. It would be so easy for families to come to the prison with their masks and there is no contagion and we have been without visitors since March, except in August and in September they cut them off again in exchange for a 10 minute video call per month and I don’t know how the modules don’t rebel.
I’m so fucking dissatisfied with my second graders that I can’t handle it because, if each module of 140 compxs rebelled, these people would have nothing to do; but in my case, how are we going to rebel, if we are seven compxs in a gallery, we can’t do anything but pull out paper and pen and denounce everything that’s happening day by day (…).
Well, changing the subject, I hope that with this Rotating Hunger Strike we get some of the 14 points of the table of demands, at least that the compxs who are terminally ill would be released so that they can spend their last days of life with their families and loved ones, that the correctional institutions have a shred of compassion for these prisoners and comply with the law without putting obstacles in the way.
Since the abolition of closed regimes, 1st grades, 91.2 and 91. 3 and the direct controls, I am aware that it is much more complicated and my points that I claimed in my turn of HHR were 1) for the release of those with chronic and terminal diseases and 2) for the abolition of what was expressed at the beginning of this paragraph because we are the only country in the European Union where there are closed regime modules where we spend years and years and where no companion can be rehabilitated by spending years and years 20 hours in a cell locked with your solitude and where you end up becoming an anti-social person, putting up with the jailer dogs with their physical and psychological torture…. saying that you are an irretrievable prisoner is enough to keep you isolated for years and so you see that there are people mentally stronger than others and there are countless companions I have seen with my eyes that have ended up losing their minds..
I am fortunately strong of mind and thanks to the support of my family and lxs compas (*female and male supporters) of the street that sacrifice for us selflessly, so that, for example, after 22 years locked up in these ‘houses’ I haven’t yet lost my mind and there is no gold in the world to pay you for everything you do for all us ‘compas’ in prison who have received your unconditional support, it really is priceless what you do for us and I will always be grateful to all the compxs and collectives who are out there always fighting for us.
Without further ado, I say goodbye to paper and pen, but never to my thoughts or my heart. Let’s fight for a world without prisons or executioner jailers. A cordial fraternal embrace
David Rojas Fernández
From: http://tokata.info/category/huelga-de-hambre-rotativa-2020/
El 17 De Enero, Marcha A La Cárcel De Brians, Contra Las Prisiones Y En Solidaridad Con Lxs Presxs En Lucha On January 17, March To Brians Prison, Against Prisons And In Solidarity With Prisoners In Struggle
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