A few weeks ago Jon Burgerman href="http://www.woostercollective.com/2003_11_02_newsarchive.html#1068065614233
53303">posted some information to the Wooster site about a group of hunger
strikers who were imprisoned in Greece under questionable circumstance. Earlier
today we received some fantastic news from href="http://www.mydadsstripclub.com/">Ange Taggart:

From
from Athens Indymedia: “The Thessaloniki 7 are free!! Earlier today
they told the doctors if they didn’t force feed them they would try the doctors
for manslaughter!!! Then 2 hours later they released them.

Just half
an hour ago, at 4.00 p.m. Greek time, the Council of Deliquencies of
Thessaloniki (i hope the translation means something ) ruled that the
Thessaloniki 7 are to be set free!! Without any bail, but with the following
terms:

1. That the 4 non-greeks are not to leave Greece until the
trial.
2. That the 3 Greeks should not leave Greece until the trial and
should present themselves to a police station twice a month (or something like
that).

Earlier in the day, a public prosecutor had ordered
compulsory feeding for the 5 hunger strikers. That move quickly turned against
the state’s side, as people were outraged by that move, that reminds of
totalitarian regimes. The media started putting pressure on the government, and
even members of the governing PASOK party came out to demand the release of the
7. And it was true that last week the solidarity movement in Greece had put
great pressure to the government, with lots of occupying buildings,
demonstrations, actions and informing the public.

Today also saw the
release of a new photo that proves the innocense of Simon Chapman.

/>This is a victory of the struggle for dignity and freedom by the 5 hunger
strikers, of the other 2 prisoners, but as well for the thousands of people that
stood up for them all over the world!! It is an outright defeat for the Greek
state-repression complex, and for the global “anti-terror” mechanisms.

/>We are so happy for that! The passion for freedom was finally stronger than
their prisons!!”