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• Zeinab Jalaliyan calls for joint stand against executions 

  Kurdish prisoner Jalaliyan jailed in Iran wrote a letter in prison, calling to “stand against executions all together”.
• Justice for disappeared people demanded in Amed 

  The Human Rights Association and families of the disappeared held sit-in for justice in Amed.
• Saturday Mothers meet in Galatasaray for the 649th time 

  This week Hasan Gülünay was remembered: he disappeared while in police custody.
• Justice for Soma action at Abbasağa Park 

  The march of the Soma miners' families asking for justice reached Istanbul 
• Non-Turkish speaker female prisoner denied medical treatment 

  Sick prisoner Sabiha Uzun isn’t able to get the medical visits she needs because she doesn’t speak Turkish.
• 73-year-old sick prisoner to take dialysis in prison ward 

  Sick prisoner Meles Tekin has been waiting for the report from the Adana Forensic Medicine Institution for two months to be released. Tekin’s health has deteriorated and will be put on a dialysis machine in the prison ward.
• Taşdemir case taken to the European Court of Human Rights 

  The Kurdish woman activist has not seen her lawyers and family after being extradited to Turkey by Norway.
• Saturday Mothers demand justice for the disappeared in Istanbul 

  The Saturday Mothers gathered in Galatasaray for the 693rd time.
• Sick prisoner operated on without anesthesia 

  Sick prisoner Cemil Ivrendi announced that he was operated on without being given anesthetics in the Tarsus Public Hospital where he was sent by the Prison Infirmary. Ivrendi said, “They are killing us slowly.”
• IHD releases report on rights violations in Central Anatolia jails 

  Violations exposed go from poor or no medical care given to ill prisoners, harassment, beating, humiliating strip searches.
• Öcalan’s lawyers submit 769th appeal for a meeting 

  Kurdish Leader Öcalan’s lawyers have submitted their 769th appeal to meet with their client.
• Abuse of minors increases 700% during AKP government 

  Violence against children and abuse of minors has increased 700% during AKP governments, while many abuse cases have ended in impunity. All proposals submitted to the Parliament by opposition parties were rejected by AKP governments.
• Ramin Hossein Panahi, Iranian Kurd, still on Death Row 

  Ramin Hossein Panahi was arrested in June 2017 in Sanandaj, the capital of Kurdistan Province in Iran while visiting his family and charged with being a member of the Kurdish opposition party Komala.
• HRW issues call on mass graves in former ISIS areas 

  Local group struggling to recover bodies, preserve evidence.
• Panahi’s lawyer: His health is worse, risk of execution continues 

  Ramin Hossein Panahi’s lawyer stated that the risk of execution continues for him and that his health is deteriorating.
• Öcalan’s lawyers appeal to Constitutional Court against isolation 

  The visitation ban imposed upon Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan has been taken to the Constitutional Court.
• HDP writes to Iranian Ambassador for Panahi 

  HDP Co-chairs have written a letter to the Iranian Ambassador for Ramin Hossein Panahi, the Kurdish political prisoner under constant threat of execution.
• IHD calls for the release of ill prisoner Kaya 

  Sabri Kaya suffers from a chronic heart disease and his conditions are worsening.
• Women prisoners harassed in Bayburt Jail 

  Ill treatment and harassment denounced by women in prison.
• KCDK-E constituents hand over Freedom for Öcalan Vigil 

  As representatives from Kurdish institutions in Europe are handing over the Freedom for Öcalan Vigil to PYD members after 5 days, the longest lasting demonstration by the Kurds will continue with the same resolve.
• Demonstration for Panahi in front of the Council of Europe 

  A demonstration was staged in front of the Council of Europe demanding the death penalty for Kurdish political prisoner Ramin Hossein Panahi be stopped in Iran.
• Six years of the Vigil for Öcalan’s freedom  

  The beginning of the action was remembered on Monday with a crowded press conference
• Two Kurdish political prisoners released after 10 years in prison 

  Two Kurdish political prisoners were released after serving more than 10 years in prison.
• Refugees exploited and abused in Turkey 

  IHD Istanbul Chapter issued a statement for World Refugee Day and pointed out the attacks and sexual harassment occurring in camps in Turkey. IHD also stressed the people who were forced to migrate due to genocidal attacks in Afrin and Kurdistan.
• Attack in Sine Prison: 20 prisoners, including Panahi, injured 

  Guards attacked prisoners in Sine (Sanandaj) Prison where inmates including Ramin Hossein Panahi got injured.