Ireland solidarity with Italian anarchist prisoner Alfredo Cospito who has been on hunger strike in Italy for 95 days in protest against the isolation torture of the 41bis prison regime.
Update about the health condition of Alfredo Cospito on the 85th day of hunger strike (Italy, January 12, 2023)
On January 12th, the 85th day of the hunger strike to the bitter end against 41 bis prison regime and life imprisonment without possibility of parole, the antagonist radio station Radio Onda d’Urto broadcast a third speech by the doctor who is regularly visiting anarchist comrade Alfredo Cospito, imprisoned in the Bancali prison, in Sassari.
As for the updates on the 71st (December 29th) and 78th day (January 5th) of hunger strike, we report a transcript of the speech and the recording of the broadcast (in italian language):
“He has lost even more weight, and significantly more than last week: he lost another 4.50 kg, so he weighed 80 kg today. So for his height of about 1.93 cm, he is about 10 kg below his target weight. The musculature is getting progressively smaller .He was a bit angry because today four members of parliament from Partito Democratico [Democratic Party, PD] went to visit him [in Italy parliamentarians can, by their own decision, visit prisons at any time] and he reiterated that his struggle is not just for him, but is for all those who are imprisoned in 41 bis. So he does not represent the ‘good one’ to be saved, but it is a struggle extended to all the people who are in 41 bis . [His health conditions] are still quite good, the fact that he has further lost weight… and this time he is losing weight in an important way, week by week, clearly having already consumed what were his fat deposits, now he is slowly moving towards a muscular catabolism, so, this obviously entails – and will entail (because he is still standing well) – an important reduction in physical strength . In my opinion, yes [we must expect a worsening of his health], even if he always mentions these Kurdish comrades who have also gone a year without eating – so he tells me – but on multivitamins, on supplements, which he does not want to take at the moment, because he tells me that they make him feel hungry, so he feels very sick with this feeling hungry, while without taking them he does not feel hungry. But without these supplements, of course, the situation gets much worse .
Alfredo Cospito’s words in front of the farce of judges and against 41bis:
I only read four letters. Before I disappear definitively into oblivion of regime 41 bis let me say a few things and then I’ll shut up forever.
The judiciary of the Italian Republic has decided that, (being) too subversive, I can not have the possibility of seeing the stars, (of) freedom, has been chosen by the ergastolo ostivo, which I doubt you will apply to me, with the absurd accusation of having committed a “political massacre” by two demonstrative attacks (committed) in the middle of the night, in deserted places, which they should not and could not injure or kill anyone. Unsatisfied (with this), it has been decided, since from prison I continued to write and collaborate with anarchist publications, to cover my mouth with the medieval gag of 41 bis, condemning me to an endless limbo waiting for death. I am not for labor and I do not give up, and I will continue my hunger strike for the abolition of the 41 bis and the hostage life until my last breath, to let the world know these two repressive abominations of this country.
In this regime we are 750 (people) and for this I also fight. Next to me (are) my anarchist and revolutionary brothers and sisters.
I am used to censorship and smoke curtains of the media, whose sole purpose is to show any radical revolutionary opposition as a monster.
Abolition of regime 41 bis.
Abolition of life sentence.
Solidarity to all the anarchists, communists and revolutionaries of the world.
Always for the anarchy.
Alfredo Cospito
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