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Call for international campaign for freedom of Giannis Michailidis.
Originally published by Athens Indymedia.

Immediate freedom for Giannis Michailidis, a political prisoner in the prisons of Greece, on hunger strike for near 50 days
Since May 23, Giannis Michailidis has been on a hunger strike in Malandrinos prison. -“After 5 more months of pre-trial detention, I start a hunger strike for my release.”-
Giannis is a political prisoner, like the dozens of political prisoners in Greece, from the youth who rose up against the Troika that imposed the worst adjustment plans against the workers and the people.

Giannis fought for the Syrian refugees when they arrived on the Greek shores so that the borders were opened, the concentration camps ended and they were given all rights.
Moreover, from behind the bars where the Greek bourgeoisie and its state keep him imprisoned, he fought for the victory of the Syrian revolution.
Giannis is a political prisoner. They have sentenced him to long years in prison, fabricating all kinds of causes and maneuvers, making false trials to keep him in “pretrial detention” and taking advantage of this or that legal aspect to deny him parole over and over again.
They even revoke his right to study and to take exams, even though he has already been in prison for more than 8 years and has served 3/5 of his 20-year sentence and 2/5 of his sentence for escaping.

They have been merciless to Giannis to the point that after 48 days of hunger strike, having lost 21% of his weight and with his health in serious danger, they deny him the possibility of the medical attention he needs.
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