On hunger striker Thodoris Iliopoulos

greece / turkey / cyprus | repression / prisoners | press release Tuesday August 11, 2009 21:14 by Solidarity movement for Thodoris Iliopoulos thodoris_iliopoulos.prtvl.all at hotmail dot com

Press release

Thodoris Iliopoulos is a prisoner of the Greek state simply for his beliefs.

PRESS RELEASE Monday, 10 August 2009

Thodoris Iliopoulos (Θοδωρής Ηλιόπουλος) is in his 32nd day of continuing hunger strike. His health situation is getting more serious day after day and it begins to become clear that his life is in danger.

It is a pressing need to allow Thodoris Iliopoulos to be taken care of in a hospital. Thodoris Iliopoulos is currently monitored only by typical clinical examinations (sugar, pressure and weight measurements) while we are still in waiting to learn about his health from the still-unavailable results of his 3 August medical examinations!

His doctor, Specialist Pathologist Eleni Kakalou (Ελένη Κάκαλου) requests his transfer to a hospital. She says, after she examined Thodoris Iliopoulos today in Korydalos Prison: “It is a very serious matter because he is not in a setting that his health can be monitored effectively, and at this moment his life is at risk. He has no strength, walking with difficulty to reach the doctor’s office or to use the telephone, and he is in pain and seized with cramps. In a few days his life will be in real danger, as with 18% weight loss there have been deaths in similar cases. Thodoris is very close to reaching this weight loss!”

The prison administration, not paying attention to the seriousness of the case, refuses to trasnfer him into a hospital, even though it’s only the prison administration that has the responsibility for maintaining Thodoris Iliopoulos' health, as his counsel N. Mavidis (Ν. Μαβίδης) says. SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT FOR THODORIS ILIOPOULOS (ΠΡΩΤΟΒΟΥΛΙΑ ΑΛΛΗΛΕΓΓΥΗΣ ΣΤΟ ΘΟΔΩΡΗ ΗΛΙΟΠΟΥΛΟ)

http://www.apofylakisithodoriiliopoulou.blogspot.com/

Translator’s note: Translated from Greek to English; there may be some mistakes. Feel free to fix or improve the translation, as well as post it elsewhere. Note that there’s an online petition regarding Thodoris Iliopoulos at http://petitiononline.com/tokeli41/

in Greek: http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_...67350