Letter of adhesion of the LOI-CI / Democracia Obrera of Argentina, adherent of the FLTI, to the international campaign for the freedom of Patxi
On behalf of the Liga Obrera Internacionalista (LOI-CI) / Democracia Obrera, we adhere, from Argentina, to the internationalist struggle to prevent the death of the Basque political prisoner Patxi Ruiz. He is in Murcia II prison, chased by the director of the prison establishment and all the jailers. He is on a hunger strike, where life is at stake. Patxi fights for the freedom of sick prisoners, for visits, for material not to be infected by COVID-19 ...
Another political prisoner, as denounced by the manifesto that calls worldwide to fight for the freedom of Patxi, Mikel San Sebastián, has just entered a hunger strike.
His cry must break the walls and must be taken as a flag of struggle by all the workers, anti-imperialist and human rights organizations in the world.
Patxi is a fighter taken hostage by the state to extort from anyone who “dares” to stand up for their demands.
Our unconditional solidarity goes and, from now on, we will redouble our efforts so that their struggle is known and receives all the solidarity and a huge mobilization at the international level of all the workers and oppressed of the world stands up.
We will send the manifesto that fights for the freedom of Patxi Ruiz to all the workers' organizations and that fight for the freedom of the political prisoners in the world, such as the Chilean, Palestinian, Syrian, Greek prisoners, Senkata (Bolivia), and hundreds of thousands more locked in the dungeons of the regimes of the oppressors.
Walter Montoya
Pascual Villacorta
Below we publish the manifesto for the international campaign for Patxi Ruiz, issued by the organization Friends of the Basque People in Argentina. Today, the comrade is no longer in hunger strike, but it continues the fight for his freedom and that of all the Basque political prisoners, for which we reproduce this manifesto
Release Patxi Ruiz, Basque political prisoner!
Freedom for the more than 400 Basque prisoners!
INTERNATIONALIST S.O.S. TO AVOID THE DEATH
OF THE BASQUE POLITICAL PRISONER PATXI RUIZ.
For several days, a Basque political prisoner has been waging a tough battle for life, against prison repression and for achieving minimal demands in the context of a global health crisis that is affecting severely in prisons. This is Patxi Ruiz, imprisoned in the Murcia II prison-grave, persecuted endlessly by the director of that prison establishment and the rest of the jailers. Patxi Ruiz had to self-injure to protest a chain of systematic attacks, he was rushed to the infirmary, there he suffered insults and neglect from the prison doctor and nurse, and when returned to his dungeon he decided to start an indefinite hunger and thirst strike, the most extreme response that a political or social prisoner can make. In this strike, the prisoner risks his life without further ado.
What are their demands ?: a) the freedom of the sick prisoners and those who have almost completed their sentences, b) that visits can be made, c) receive material to avoid being infected by the virus (masks, gloves, etc), c) carrying out the test on prisoners and jails, d) in the event of the death of a relative, having the possibility of going to the funeral, something that Ruiz himself was denied on a previous occasion when his father died. As a result of his extreme measure, Ruiz has stopped urinating for six days and suffers from severe kidney pain.
It is worth asking, then, to what extent should prison suffering be for a young man to decide such an action? Spanish prisons are, like so many others, destructive, annihilating and destructive establishments of the person, hence the only and dramatic protest must be to rebel and continue fighting as it may.
In solidarity with Patxi Ruiz and his demands, another Basque political prisoner, Mikel San Sebastián, has just started a similar strike, and others have locked themselves indefinitely in their dungeons and reject the food tray. In the streets, solidarity activists have started fasting in several towns and there are protests.
We, the undersigned, demand that the Spanish government comply with the common sense demands made by Basque prisoners and stop the violations of their rights. It is time for more than two hundred Basque prisoners to return home.
Friends of the
Basque People in Argentina
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