Political prisoner Rodrigo Pilla goes on hunger strike in Brasilia

The activist was arrested after protesting against Bolsonaro and remains in prison and is not allowed to be interviewed, despite the decision that granted him a transition to an open regime.
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247 – Activist Rodrigo Pilha, who was arrested more than three months ago after protesting against genocide orchestrated by Jair Bolsonaro and remains in prison despite a court ruling recognizing his transition to an open regime, went on strike on Friday. Read below Pilha’s letter in which he protests against arbitration:

Brasilia, 9 July 2021

Dear family and friends,

After thinking for a long time about the last morning of the prison, I decided that from today I will start a hunger strike with no end date.

Given that the judiciary still forbids me from speaking, giving interviews and now holding me in prison, even though I won the right to open regime, I decided to use my body and peaceful resistance to protest against these and various others. absurdities that subsequent cases occur in the DF penitentiary system due to police and judicial authoritarianism.

My hunger strike is much more than a reluctance to eat the laundry they call the food they deliver to prisoners in this modern concentration camp called Sarai, my hunger strike is aimed at denouncing and drawing public attention to bad contracts, terrible conditions of serving sentences and all manner of human rights violations that continue to occur in the DF penitentiary system under the blind eye of the judiciary, who frequently wash their hands, dry the cloth, and ultimately collude with such atrocities.

Threats of punishment and aggression, name-calling and cruel treatment by the criminal police officers continue to take place, and interrogation of inmates WITHOUT the presence of protection (a fact that only happened to me three times) is a common practice.

Cameras and wings are overcrowded, people sleep on top of each other and even on a dirty floor among cockroaches and scorpions.

The bathroom is more like a pigsty, and the sunbathing lasts only half an hour.

Excessive punishment, and for trivial reasons, with the simple intent of causing a regression of prisoner crime, ultimately transforms psychological torture by the state into everyday life in prisons.

The Penitentiary Special Operations Office (DPOE) has been accused of unjustified beatings, maiming, and even being responsible for the death of prisoners following a procedure called “pulling out” or “pulling” prisoners.

Finally, I know the risks I am taking, but I am convinced that my hunger strike is what needs to be done now to shed light on the horror that exists in DF prisons, and I assure you that the problems of the prison system are much more radical and harmful to people’s lives than the position I take today as a form of protest.

With the above in mind, and since they are not allowing me to speak, I ask you to SPEAK FOR ME and circulate this condemnatory letter as much as possible so that as many people as possible are aware of the barbarism that prevails in the DF prison system today. …

“… they can arrest me, they can beat me, they can even leave me without food, because I have not changed my mind …”

With the protest verses of the samba composer “Voz do Morro”, Ze Keti, I say goodbye and thank everyone for all the support and affection received.

Strong hugs and hasta la Victoria siemper !!!

With love,

Rodrigo Stack

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