Thomas Meyer-Falk, een redskin, in de bajes voor onteigening van een bank.

Sinds het voorjaar van 2002 zit onder anderen ene heer Mohamed Abu Dhess in Duitsland gevangen in isolatie. Men beschuldigd hem en enige andere mannen uit het Nabije Oosten, dat ze een terroristische vereniging opgericht en aanslagen in Duitsland gepland hebben. Op een andere plek heb ik al over hem en in het bijzonder zijn proces bericht:

Thomas Meyer Falk werd in 1996 veroordeeld en opgesloten voor een bankoverval met als doel politieke activiteiten te financieren. Normaal zou hij in 2010 vrijkomen maar omwille van een “veiligheidsstraf" zal zijn opsluiting verlengd worden. Omdat hij zijn politieke ideeën en militant antifascisme nooit verwierp en omwille van zijn verzet tegen zijn opsluiting, is hij het slachtoffer van allerhande speciale maatregelen. Studies via de post werden hem geweigerd omdat hij “deze kennis tegen de staat zou kunnen gebruiken". Thomas zit sinds het begin in isolatie onder zeer zware omstandigheden. De brief hieronder verzond hij in maart vanuit de gevangenis. Het ABC Gent heeft eind 2004 een brochure met verzamelde teksten van Thomas uitgegeven.  

On August 3rd, 2002, it has been 4 continuous years that I have spent in solitary confinement in German prisons; before that I had already been in solitary confinement from October 1996 to May 1998.

The author of this introduction is currently imprisoned himself in a jail in Germany. Although he is kept in strict isolation, he is supposed to do hard labour. During daytime he is supposed to do piece-work in an empty isolation-cell while in the evenings he could rest in the isolation cell next door. An idea which he refused, but which led him to deal with the subject "hard labour in the treatment of (alleged) criminals in Germany" again.

A: Introduction : By chance I learned about a study accessible to the STOA(Scientific And Technological Options Assessment) committee of the European Parliament.

I. Preliminary note  : "Peking must be truly attacked and flattenend to ground level. Peking must be shaved. It's a fight between Asia and the whole of Europe", Emperor Wilhelm II wrote on July 20th, 1900. A few days later he spoke to the German soldiers, motivating them for the exterminating crusade in China:

Article 5 paragraph one of the German "Grundgesetz" (which takes the place of a constitution) states that everybody has the right to give and spread his opinion freely by means of spoken language, documents and pictures. A censorship, so the article continues, "does not take place".

On November 11th each year the so-called 5th season starts in large parts of Germany -female and male "fools" take to power. The climax are the carnival parades in the following spring season before Easter.

Some time ago I reported about the governmental advisor Mrs X who started to serve in the Bruchsal prison on November 11th, 2002, and untiringly fights for law and order. Recently balloons were the object of her fight - balloons which I wished to obtain, but did not get.

In mid-November 2001 U$-President George W. Bush signed a bill according to which alleged terrorists can from now on be put on trial secretly and world wide to US military courts; they can be convicted and thus even executed this way. Furthermore, the Minister of Justice has been empowered, similarly to the German "Kontaktsperregesetz", to abandon allcontact that the prisoners may have to the outside world, including their lawyers, if it is required by public safety.

In the following, the necessity of a (inter)national campaign against the forced labour occurring in prisons today shall be explained. The legal background to forced labour in prisons will be presented in an introduction (A), then, the main section (B) the necessity of a campaign against forced labour fought within as well as outside of prisons will be established. A short outlook on how international co-operation in this area could be like will be given at the end.