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Solidarity with anarchist Gabriel Pombo da Silva

anarchists | 09.05.2007 07:18 | Repression | World

Urgent appeal to send protest letters to the prison of Aachen against the continuing isolation of Gabriel Pombo da Silva

Gabriel is an anarchist who along with another, Jose Fernandez Delgado, escaped from the brutal F.I.E.S prison system of the Spanish State. Gabriel and Jose are now residing in the Jails of Germany, after attempting to escape a police control on the Belgium/German border. Gabriel has written quite a lot since being in Jail 20 years, and he is only 36, letters and writing is his lifeline to the outside, please make an effort to show solidarity with him by sending him a card and sending a protest email/letter to the authorities (addresses below).

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Gabriel Pombo Da Silva, sentenced to 13 years of
imprisonment in the 'Aachen4'-trial, asks for our
solidarity.

It seems that the German authorities want to isolate
Gabriel even more than before. To remind you: since his
imprisonment at the end of June 2004 in the prison of
Aachen, Germany, he spends 23 hours a day alone in a
cell, quasi- isolated from everyone inside, four times
a month he can have a visit of 45 minutes.. . Now it
appears that also letters from and to him ‘disappear’,
that postage stamps sent to him from outside are not
handed over, that books and CD’s are kept by the
prison. Before, they had arranged that money on his
prison account is confiscated, so that he is only left
with the strict minimum to buy from the prison
cantine.

Those who know Gabriel know what it means for him not
to be able to read and to communicate; as he writes
himself in a recent letter: “reading has pulled me out of 14 years of torture
of all kinds.., has saved me from misanthropy and
madness.. . What do they want from me? Do they believe
that by cutting me off from the sources of culture,
art, sentiments, relationships, ... from which I drink,
they can convert me to the kind of ‘mummy’ such as
they are? Do they forget that Memory, memories,
reasonings, .. do not burn at the stake as was
thought in the time of Torquemada the Inquisitor, or
of Goebbels and his book burnings in fascist
Germany..?”

Gabriel has, just as every prisoner, just as every
human being, a profound need for social contact, for
communication, for participation in social life and
political debate. The existing system of power and
greed is more and more directed towards the
destruction of this, of individuality, of the social,
of consciousness. This goes evidently – so
drastically – for the prison system.

The attempts to isolate Gabriel more and more aim
clearly at the destruction of his personality and
political identity. They must be stopped. We ask you
all to send letters, faxes, emails to the prison of
Aachen. It is the least what can be done now and
direct. Below the addresses of the prison of Aachen
and an example letter (in german) you can use if you
want.

Solidarity with Gabriel and all prisoners in struggle!
Stop isolation torture!



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JVA Aachen

Dr. Hans-Joachim Gries

Krefelder Str. 251

52070 Aachen



Ort, Datum

Sehr geehrter Herr Dr. Hans-Joachim Gries, 


unser Freund Gabriel Pombo Da Silva sitzt nunmehr seit
Ende Juni 2004 in der JVA Aachen ein. Das ist ein Fakt
den sie kennen, genauso wie Ihnen die Fakt bekannt
ist, dass er 23 Stunden in einer Zelle eingesperrt
ist. Doch diese Isolation reicht Ihnen offensichtlich
nicht.



Sie händigen die Bücher nicht aus, die Gabriel Pombo
Da Silva von Freunden und Freundinnen geschickt
bekommt, genauso wenig die für ihn zugesandten CDs.
Sie halten Briefe zurück; die die reingehen, als auch
die die rausgehen sollen. Sie stehlen Briefmarken aus
den Postsendungen die an Gabriel Pombo Da Silva gehen.



Glauben Sie tatsächlich damit den Willen und die
politische Persönlichkeit unseres Freundes brechen zu
können? Dann werden wir Ihnen hiermit mitteilen
müssen, dass das ein Irrglauben Ihrerseits ist.

Wir fordern von Ihnen:


- Herausgabe der Bücher, die an Gabriel Pombo
geschickt worden sind und geschickt werden

- Herausgabe der CDs , die an Gabriel Pombo Da
Silva geschickt wurden und geschickt werden

- Weiterleitung der Briefe an Gabriel Pombo Da
Silva inklusive der Briefmarken und sonstigen
„Einlagen“

- Weiterleitung der Briefe die Gabriel Pombo Da
Silva schreibt, und zwar an die Adressaten für die sie
vorgesehen sind!
Sie schaffen es nicht unseren Freund von uns zu
isolieren. Ihre Mauern, Ihre Bewacher, Ihre Schikanen
helfen Ihnen da gar nicht!

Send appeal to Aachen prison:

Telefon: 0241 9173-0
Fax: 0241 9173-273

E-mail:  poststelle@jva-aachen.nrw.de



anarchists
- Homepage: http://www.escapeintorebellion.info

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