One of the FIES prisoners is the anarchist prisoner Antonio Rubiales Puerto. (Antonio Rubiales is a friend of another anarchist prisoner Rafael Martinez Zea - they were both imprisoned in Badajoz prison before, and are now both in Puerto III (Rafael in 2nd degree). They are also both involved in a court case: a year and a half ago, Antonio was charged with the murder of another prisoner, a frame-up, he says; Zea is the only prisoner willing to testify before court on his behalf. This court case is scheduled to take place in the near future.)

Just now, a letter of Antonio Rubiales, about the conditions in the FIES isolation wing in Puerto III, expressing his solidarity with the prisoners on hungerstrike in Italy since 1 December*, his determination to continue fighting, etc., has been published on the net. See: this letter (in Spanish).

Rafael Martinez Zea is a social anarchist prisoner in Spain who would like to correspond with other anarchists and get more involved with the anarchist movement. He understands, reads and writes in Spanish and English - Rafa used to live in Australia for years before returning to Spain - and is willing to do translation work in both languages.

He is a friend of Gabriel Pombo da Silva. In January and April of this year he was on hungerstrike; the first one in solidarity with prisoners in Spain and Turkey who struggle against the isolation units, the second one - which he won - for some specific demands about his prison conditions (return of all his materials which must enable him to continue his studies).

You can write to Antonia and Rafael at the following address: (Rafael knows English, Antonio only Castillian)


Antonio Rubiales Puerto (M 15)
Rafael Martinez Zea
C.P. Puerto de Santamaria III
Crtra. Jerez-Rota, Km 6
11500 Puerto de Santamaria
Cadiz
Spain


*On the 1st December 737 prisoners with life sentences and 8353 prisoners without life sentences, their families and supporters went on hungerstrike in Italy. Some prisoners are going on hungerstrike until death or severe consquence, some on rotation in protest. On 14 & 15 December there were decentralised actions, fax & telephone blockades against Italian consulates and Embassies and these are still needed. One of the main demands of the prisoners and their supporters is the abolition of the life sentence. We are in need of more translations of information about this ongoing struggle which has been barely covered in the English speaking world.