https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-9-2021-000827_EN.html
This has been posted on 10th of February>
I don't see any follow-ups or any answers to that.
I don't know - does it mean that nobody cares in the EU parliament?
Because being a member of a terroristic organization cracked almost 20 years ago is something EU always has been having difficulties to come to terms with? But the laws do not discriminate between the nature of the crime, once the sentence has been given. All prisoners are humans and have rights.
This prisoner is about to die and we in Greece have been silently and slowly watching him die for the past few days, when he also stopped hydration. He is 63 years old. He has asked to be moved to another prison instead of the designated one - after a revengeful change in the law that was made especially for him. The government is simply and plainly telling lies about him asking for more than he deserves, and just leaving him to die. It is a totally political matter and leaves the Greek Government stand accused of breach of human rights - it has done so before, but not in such a massive public and stubborn scale. Every moment that passes the Greek Government prepares police forces to strike hard on any riots that are almost inevitable in case of death. With the excuse of the riots we all in Greece fear that more abuses of power will be done by the police force, which of course in its big part consists of conservative and far-right supporters. Most of greek television media is in support of the government. Most greek people either don't know about what is going on or don't care, or are laughing gleefully and contendedly, agreeing that a person who got convicted for 11 killings should not deserve any better. We who disagree with this are quickly dismissed as terrorist sympathisers and terrorism supporters and are quickly banned by especially Facebook.
Question for written answer E-000827/2021
to the Commission
Rule 138
Miguel Urbán Crespo (The Left)
Subject: The situation of Dimitris Koufontinas
Greek prisoner Dimitris Koufontinas, convicted in the case of the 17 November Group, has been on hunger strike since 8 January 2021 in protest against his treatment by the Greek Government. Members of the current administration had already explicitly declared their intention to worsen his living conditions in prison (despite his impeccable conduct during 18 years in jail). The government also recently amended the Penal Code in order to remove him from the agricultural prison to which he had been transferred two years previously and deprive him of the right to temporary prison leave, which he had been entitled to for many years. He has now been transferred to a stricter prison, where he endures suffocating living conditions. Mr Koufontinas demands, as provided by law, to return to the basement cells of Korydallos prison, where he was held for 16 years, and for the war against him to end.
1. Is the Commission aware that the Greek Government’s actions constitute a breach of the law and a disregard for the Greek Ombudsman’s findings?
2. Is it aware that Mr Koufontinas is at serious risk of suffering irreversible harm or even death?
