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Originally posted to It’s Going Down

Kinetik Justice of @FreeAlaMovement, a #PrisonStrike leader, goes on hunger strike as advocate decries human torture https://t.co/NRxsmMg1Mq — #FreeKeithDavisJr #BDS ?? (@jaybeware) October 28, 2016

Kinetik Justice, an outspoken leader within the Free Alabama Movement (FAM) has been transferred out of Holman Prison in Alabama to anther prison with a reputation for being a “bully unit” for rebellious prisoners. According to Brian Sonenstein at ShadowProof:

One of the leading voices behind the national prison strike against slavery was transferred to Kilby Correctional Facility, known among Alabama prisoners to be a “bully unit,” where prisoners deemed disruptive are brutalized. Kinetik Justice-Amun, also known as Robert Earl Council, is a member of the Free Alabama Movement and was previously incarcerated at the Holman Correctional Facility. He used contraband cellphones to communicate with journalists and publish videos and audio recordings from his solitary cell at Holman. The videos showed how prisoners like him are treated. “That’s bad,” an anonymous prisoner reacted after he learned where Kinetik was transferred. “Kilby is our bully camp,” said the prisoner, who is also a member of Free Alabama. “That’s where inmates go who they deem to be problems that they have to iron out with brutality. You understand what I’m saying? When they send you to Kilby, that’s where they break your arms and break your legs.”

https://twitter.com/FREEALAMOVEMENT/status/791768974560067584

Another article wrote that the transfer came only a day before Justice was about to blow the lid on continued violence and brutality within Holman:

According to Pastor Kenneth Glasgow, founder of The Ordinary People Society and a spokesman for the Free Alabama Movement, Council was transferred out of Holman Correctional a day before he was set to meet with SPLC policy strategist Monique Gillum, Glasgow said, who was investigating the suicide of Robert Deangelo Carter. The SPLC declined to comment on the scheduled meeting, but did confirm that they were investigating Carter’s death. “We’re looking into it,” Maria Morris, SPLC managing attorney, told Jezebel. “We’re also looking into the conditions in segregation units at Holman—and elsewhere—that allow for suicides like this to happen.”

In a response to the move, Kinetik has launched a hunger strike. According to an article on RT:

Just two months after organizing a national prison labor strike, Alabama inmate Robert Earl Council – also known as Kinetik Justice Amun – is on a hunger strike.