ATHENS - Overturning a prosecutor, Greece’s Supreme Court has ruled that notorious November 17 terrorist assassin Dimitris Koufodinas, hospitalized during a hunger strike to protest being barred a seventh furlough, is entitled to another vacation from jail.

A Supreme Court Criminal Board of Appeal set aside the judicial council's decision in Volos, near a low-security work farm where he’s detained, to reject the furlough for Koufodinas, a darling of anarchists and terrorists, including elements in the ruling Radical Left SYRIZA.

The decision effectively ordered lower court judges to reconsider his request for a temporary leave from prison, which had earlier been rejected, paving the way for him to get out again.

The 61-year-old is in intensive care for effect of his hunger strike and as he said he’s upset his bed is next to the hospital morgue. His lawyer, Ioanna Kourtovik said the high court agreed to have Koufodinas' demand re-examined by a panel of judges in Volos, near a low-security work farm where he was transferred from a high-security jail in Athens.

Backed by anarchists who have been on a violent, unstoppable spree of attacks against a number of targets - including splashing paint on the home of US Ambassador Geoffre Pyatt, he is serving 11 life sentences for his role in the murder of 23 people, including five Americans attached to the US Embassy over the years.

Pyatt denounced him earlier, saying that Koufodinas “is a murderer, not Robin Hood,” but the anarchist group Rouvikonas threatened the streets would run red with blood if he died from his hunger strike, as he vowed to stay it “until the end,” or until getting his furlough.

Supreme Court prosecutor Xeni Dimitriou, who last year ordered an investigation into why he keeps getting time off from jail this time said he should get out, with no explanation why she had a change of heart.

The prison's warden and a social worker attached to the correctional facility voted in favor of granting another four-day furlough to Koufodinas, known by his alias of "Loukas" or "poison-hand" by his fellow terrorists, said the business newspaper Naftemporiki.

It had been argued he wasn’t entitled until furlough laws because he remains undefiant, remorseless, has called for the overthrow of the state and during his last furlough at Christmas was seen smirking and walking around Athens with a member of Rouvikonas, pointing out spots where he and his group had killed people.

Rouvikonas’ high-profile attacks even included the Parliament, where a group ran up stairs past startled police and tossed red paint bombs on the wall before setting off smoke grenades to cover their getaway although one was detained.

Opponents of another furlough said he doesn’t meet conditions for release because he still won’t reveal where November 17’s cache of weapons have remained hidden, won’t cooperate with authorities and is getting preferential treatment, with no reports of other prisoners getting vacations as he does.

The prosecutor and judicial council who barred a furlough said he’s not eligible because he remains defiant and a danger to the state. Changing her position, Dimitriou argued that even criminals serving multiple life sentences can be granted a furlough, provided they have served a specific part of their term.