[Onthebarricades] The two anarchist hunger strikers are being released!

[Andy]

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Subject: [The Eco Anarchist club] The two anarchist hunger strikers are being released!


Athens indymedia 06 
After 70 days of hunger strike, for being detained awaiting trial

All three detainees, arrested after the European Social Forum demonstration, 
on the 6th of May 2006, are being released after a decision by the Jurys' 
Council. They will be free under restrictions, still awaiting trial, to prove 
their innocence, as they claim.

Two out of the three detainees have been on a hunger strike since December, 
protesting against their 8-month imprisonment, which had been based on some 
obscure testimonies by policemen. Since Tarassio Zandarozni, has been on a 
hunger for 70 days and Yerassimos Kyriakopoulos for 54 days, they are in 
hospital as they have already had severe disturbance on their health [latest update].

Their official release is expected to be tomorrow early in the morning, 
after the decision is officially recorded. The two hunger strikers will gradually 
come back their nutrition and will stay in hospital until they recover.

Health update for the detained hunger strikers
by LA 03:48pm, Tuesday February 6 2007
(Modified 04:30pm, Tuesday February 6 2007)

Translation

The signing special GPs, Athanassios Karambelis, adjunct director in Metaxas 
Hospital, and Olga Cosmopoulou, 2nd level tutor of the Nicaea General State 
Hospital and after special authorization by the Athens & Piraeus Doctors' 
Union, we are following the health state of the two detained hunger strikers, Mr 
Zantarozni Tarassios, aged 25 (on 68th day) and Kyriakopoulos Gerassimos, 
aged 31 (52nd day) being under hospital treatment in Nicaea General Hospital 
since the 9th of January 2007, and whom we examine regularly.

During today's examination, adding to what we had noted on our previous 
announcements, we found that:

The state of the two hunger strikers, who only accept to drink water, is 
still critical. They appear to have orthostatic hypotension and they cannot 
stand for more than a while, since they may faint. They stay in bed, 24hrs a day, 
and in a state of severe physical exhaustion. They suffer from loss of 
hypodermic fat, and atrophy of the skin and the hypodermic tissue, along with loss 
of hair and dry skin, phenomena of advanced starvation.

They have a lot of emaciation and muscle weakness, and show severe atrophy 
of middle-bone and temple muscles, including obvious loss of muscular masses 
all over the body. The loss of muscular masses is so critical that in a high 
degree, that it is most possibly irreversible while it is an indication of 
analogous, non-visible but possibly more severe damages caused on internal 
sensitive organs.

We focus on the incidents of bradycardia that both hunger strike suffer 
from, more often recently, something which alerts for a severe damage on the 
myocardium, endangering serious arrhythmias and sudden death. Analogous damages 
have possibly been caused on other delicate organs such as the central neural 
systema and the neural tissue as a whole. Some temporary incidents of daze 
and lack of locality, which consist a bad prognostic for initiating damages in 
the central neural system.

Mr Kyriakopous, who has got only one leaver and has had a spleen ectomy, has 
extra gastrointestinal disturbances, almost since the beginning of his 
treatment, while he has got cholelithiasis, which can be attributed to the the 
starvation.

Finally, the two hunger strikers are hemodynamically instable, risking a 
shock and serious infections with irrecoverable damages of vital organs. Their 
state is unavoidably worsening as the days go on, and in any time it can 
rapidly worsen, with irrecoverable damages on their health and immediate danger 
for their life.

The doctors treating the detained hunger strikers and us, who have been 
presented as their personal doctors, with respect to them, we are doing are duty 
to keep our two patients in life and minize the severe and unavoidable 
damages, which they will have after so keeping themselves away from nutrition, for 
so long.

The detained hunger strikers have already passed the limit for having non 
reversible and constant serious damages on their health, while there is 
immediate risk for their life.

The signing doctors, we declare that it is absolutely required and urgent 
their immediate release, so as to save their health and their life.

THE DOCTORS

Athanassios Karambelis, adjunct director of Metaxas' Hospital
Olga Cosmopoulou, 2nd-level tutor of NHS, General State Hospital of Nicaea

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