(updates will follow)

On Saturday 16 May anarchist Nikos Kountardas was ordered in pre-trial detention under the pretext of his supposed non-abbiding to the bail conditions previously set to him. Nikos had been ordered to appear to his local police station (in the northern city of Xanthi) twice a month. At his previous appearance he was informed he could not sign the paper proving his presence, under a bureaucratic pretext (that his case’s folder had not been transfered to the local station yet). And next time he appeared to the same station (on 16.5), he was arrested!

Next day, on Sunday 17.5 Nikos was transferred to the prison of Komotini, where we was placed in solitary confinement. Two days later, on 19.5, in an obvious attempt to be isolated from the solidarity movement around him, he was transfered to the remote prison of Amfissa, in central Greece.

Nikos went on thirst and hunger strike from the night May 16, the night of his arrest.

Doctors warn that Nikos’s health is detteriorating and that he is fast approaching a non-reversible condition. Solidarity actions have taken place in the cities of Kozani and Xanthi, while today (22.5) Nikos was transferred to the General Hospital of Nikaia in Athens.