Around 300 protesters gathered in Argostoli on the island of Cephalonia, marching in solidarity with the Koufontinas hunger strike and demanding that the Greek government immediately accept the revolutionary prisoner’s request to be returned to his old cell at the Korydallos prison in Athens.
Via alerta_gr & Athens Indymedia
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