Dear Colleagues,
I regret to inform you about my decision to go on a hunger strike. Unfortunately, this decision is the only way forward for me.
I have been in prison since April 2021 under a decision that even today, 16 months after its issuance, has not been written. Since 2013 I have spent 2.5 years in prison and I still do not have access to the verdict!
I am in prison pursuant to a first instance decision, while the Court of Appeal has not yet been appointed, and I risk having served my sentence before the judgment of the Court of Appeal decision is issued. As a result, I am deprived of the human right of appeal which is enshrined in the European Convention of Human Rights.
I am in prison, being a hostage of a regime that deprives me of the right to be transferred to the Athens EPLO in order to give a speech during the Plenary Session of the European Parliament.
I am in this miserable situation, because YOU and the JURI Committee have never taken into account all the evidence I have submitted (proving that I am a victim of political persecution) and preferred to throw me as a prey to the corrupt Greek “Justice” instead.
I am in this impasse because the European Parliament which pretends to care about human rights, in my case, chose to turn a blind eye to the blatant injustice and suffering I have been suffering since 2013, proving its hypocrisy.
As a result, I have no choice but to go on a hunger strike demanding my sentence to be suspended until the Court of Appeal judgment. I was born free, I lived free and I decided in my last step, to die free, if necessary, for my ideas and in order to prove my innocence.
Yours faithfully,
Ioannis LAGOS
MEP
Political Prisoner
Regional Penitentiary of Domokos
35010
DOMOKOS
GREECE
