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From: AFA-Nijmegen (afan@antifa.net) Date: 27 Nov 2001 11:57 uur
After more than 8 years of
imprisonment, Christopher Lee Plummer will has been granted parole in
Texas. Chris was placed in prison on a 15 years sentence for an
anti-fascist action in Houston, Texas. While imprisoned he faced severe
repression by both the state and nazi gangs in the prisons. Several
attempts on his life were made, resulting in permanent injures that will
effect him forever. Much of his time in prison was spent in solitary
confinement for his efforts to organize prisoners and fellow anarchist.
During his 4 years stay in solitary the prisoncrats went so far as to
accuse him of attempting to smuggle a pistol into the prison. The state
went all out to stop him. After more than ten times of being turned down
for parole he has finally been apporved for release on 1 / 2002. Just a
few months from now. He will be staying in Texas and working with
the Austin ABC chapter. Chris has made firm commitments to his fellow
anarchist political and social prisoners stating that if he can't get
them the support that they desperately need he wil return to prison for
trying. Chris will be facing huge difficulty when he is released, will
need all of our support and solidarity. While he has many friends and
family it will take large amounts of money to secure an attorney to
represent him while on parole. He feesl that if he does not have an
attorne to stand by him, he will certainly be sent back to prison for any
minor violation. One of the conditions that he has had to comply with for
release is `super intensive parole' this means that he will be placed on
a monitor and aill have to report in person twice a week, this type of
parole is normally reserved for sex offenders and murderers. The fact
that they are going to this extreme type of supervision implies that they
fear his ability to continue solid anarchist agitation. Chris asks that
folks work to raise funds for his release over the next few months. The
movement nees to support this dedicated anarchist political prisoner.
This is the crucial time.
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