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Andrea Stauffacher: Transferral during the holidays
Andrea “Andi” Stauffacher (member of the Revolutionärer Aufbau Schweiz and the commission for a Red Help International) shall be transferred to the regional prison of Zürich for the time between Christmas and New Year.
On the 24th of December she shall be transferred from Winterthur (where she is imprisoned since the 13th of May 2013) to Zürich and will return to Winterthur on the 3rd of January. The responsible cantonal department of justice (special service 3) justifies this by saying the the prison of Winterthur is closed for this period.
This isn't true. The prison of Winterthur is closed for two days each on Christmas and New Year – from the 24th of December to the 26th of December and from the 31st of December to the 2nd of January. On these days the other prisoners will receive exceptional days of leave. From the eleven days that Andi shall spend in the regional prison of Zürich the prison in Winterhur will only be closed on four days! It must be considered as a provocation that Andi is transferred to Zürich for this period. The prison in Zürich is used for pretrial prisoners while the prison in Winterthur is used to execute post-trial sentences. The prison regime in a prison for pretrial prisoners is more rigid. Only one hour of free movement is possible per day, the contact between the prisoners is limited and the communication towards outside is nearly impossible.
The special service 3 is hassling the political prisoner Andi. This behavior is but one in a row of political provocations which have been committed by the cantonal department of justice. During the hunger strike in solidarity with Georges Ibrahim Abdallah (which she absolved with Marco Camenisch) they threatened to transfer her to a different prison with stricter prison regimeif she didn't dissociate herself in written form from the strike immediately3. A previously authorized leave of one day on the day of StandortFUCKtor in Winterthur but at a different time than the StandortFUCKtor was cancelled less than 24 hours before the leave would have begun4.
This very same behavior can also be observed versus the anarchist prisoner Marco Camenisch. He was imprisoned in Italy from 1991 to 2002 and was then transferred to Switzerland. Since then he has been imprisoned in different Swiss prisons. After being imprisoned for a total of 21 year it would have been possible from 2012 on to leave him go on parole after having absolved two thirds of his imprisonment as it is done in 99% of all cases. The special service 3 sabotages any possible step towards leave on parole and justifies this with his unbroken political identity.
We call for solidarity with Andi and Marco. Send her letters between the 24th of December 2013 and the 3rd of January 2014 to: Andrea Stauffacher, Gefängnis Zürich, Postfach 1266, 8026 Zürich. There are also other means to overcome the walls between inside and outside.
Send Marco revolutionary wishes for the new year too! Marco Camenisch, PF 75, 5600 Lenzburg.
Let's turn the tables on them – let's prosecute capitalism.
Freedom for all political prisoners.
Red Help Switzerland
20.12.2013