Alfonso Fernandez Ortega is a young man of 22, citizen of the working class neighborhood of Vagieka, Madrid, who was arrested as he was getting out of his house on 14/11/2012. On that date a general European strike was to take place. He was arrested as he was heading to a strike protection group in his neighborhood. As with all the rest, he was participating in the strike to demand no more unemployment, no more anti-labor reforms, no more cutbacks to social welfare, no privatization of health care or education.

The police accused him of carrying a rucksack with Molotov bombs and charge him with possession of explosives. It seems that in Spain as is the case in Greece, this is a popular police practice for framing demonstrators. Although no fingerprints of Alfonso or other any other evidence was found on the rucksack, he was kept in custody.

Thanks to international solidarity and coordinated protests  on 28/12/2012 the media were forced to report the incident and Alfon was released (after 56 days in jail) on 9/01/2013.  On the 18/9/2014 , he went on trial, charged with explosives possession. If he is found guilty he will face a five and a half year imprisonment.

Repression in Spain has come to a scandalous increase, leading to an incredible violation of human rights and freedom. Fines have been imposed on thousands of people, very often based on surveillance camera images (as the police claim). More than thousands have been or are to be on trial. Hundreds of them are threatened to be imprisoned because of their participation in labor, political or trade-union struggles.
Particularly after the great strikes of 2010-2012 and the “Indignant movement” the government penalizes any kind of social action excessively and exhaustively. Many new prohibitions have been added to the legal “arsenal” to repress strikes and demonstrations.

This terrorizing reality that social and labor struggles suffer in Spain is not unknown to us. The assault against human rights and freedom is the employers and governors common choice in every country when employers and the oppressed are stand up for themselves.

The Coordination Group for Alfon’s freedom has organized a series of movements both in Vagiekas and Madrid as well as all around Spain. It calls for a day of international solidarity on 16th September. On this day protests will take place in many countries outside Spanish embassies and consulates.
We organize a protest outside the Spanish embassy in Athens as an act of solidarity to Alfon.
STOP ALFONSO FERNANDEZ ORTEGA’S PROSECUTION

THE FABRICATION AGAINST HIM WILL FALL DOWN

SOLIDARITY IS WORKER’S WEAPON

ATHENS-MADRID-LISBON EVERYBODY OUT ON THE STREETS, EVERYBODY JOIN OUR STRUGGLE

SOLIDARITY INITIATIVE
Send your protest messages in Spanish embassy (210-9213901)
Send your solidarity and support to Alfon here: alfon_libertad@hotmail.com