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Jailed terrorist Dimitris Koufodinas was transferred to Domokos high-security prison, near Lamia in central Greece, on Monday, following a recent tightening of the laws regarding prison leave and the transfer system.

The law, passed earlier in December, bans the transfer of detainees convicted of terrorist offenses to rural prisons and foresees much stricter criteria for furlough.

The hitman of the November 17 terrorist organization, who has been convicted to 11 consecutive life sentences over as many assassinations, was transferred to the Kassavetia Rural Penitentiary in Volos in August 2018 from Korydallos high security prison in Athens.

The same law also links leave rights to the severity of the crime for which prisoners are convicted. Transfers are also prohibited for prisoners who have faced disciplinary action during their incarceration or who have previously violated the terms of furlough.

On a day like today: For the past 13 years at the time of the change of the year, anarchists in Athens gather outside Korydallos prison, the main prison of the city to remind prisoners that they are not alone, shouting slogans against the prison system and lighting up the night with fireworks.The main slogan that can be heard is "The passion for freedom is stronger that your prisons".

This particular footage has been recorded on 31 December 2008, at a time where the prison was full of people arrested during the greek Revolt of December, that followed after the fatal shooting of a 15 years old boy, Alexandros Grigoropoulos, by a policeman in the Exarhia area of Athens.

Inmate Vassilis Dimakis started his third hunger and thirst strike on Saturday, as the state deprives him of the right to education although this is secured by the law. Under a pretext of 14-quarantine because of the pandemic, the inmate in Korydallos Prison in Athens has no access to his laptop and internet in order to attend university classes.

Dimakis took part in a prison protest demanding health protocols and antiseptics amid the pandemic. Is this the reason the state adopted an extra punitive measure, and restricted the law granting inmates rights to education in the name of one prisoner?

Dimakis is a third year undergraduate student at the Department of Political Sciences and Public Governance of the School of Economic and Political Sciences of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Having first been in prison in his teenager years, he managed to finish high school in prison and was granted a scholarship due to exceptional educational performances.

For everybody knowing the Greek prison system and its grave shortages in punitive measures, one would say that Dimakis found all by himself the “right way” to be able to return back to the society one day.

❝ Κάπου, κάτι απίστευτο περιμένει να γίνει γνωστό ❞

~ Καρλ Σαγκάν ~

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