Amadeu Casellas

Who is Amadeu Casellas?

Amadeu Casellas Ramón is an anarchist prisoner.

He took part in robberies in banks in the 1970s as an income for labour struggles. He became a member of PIS in the 1980s. He went on a hunger strike on 22 June 2008 for a number of reasons. He was against tortures in Catalonia prisons. And he was against those responsible for tortures: Spanish courts and politicians. At that time he had already been in prison for over 2 decades. According to Spanish law he had to be free. He was told he would get the so-called 'third grade', which means better conditions in prison, and that he would be free, after 77 days on strike. He reached an agreement with Ignasi García Clavel, Director of Social Relations, and began to eat. He went on a hunger strike on 20 April 2009 as he was still in prison with no information about his promised freedom. No new agreements will be made until freedom.